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Making Gay History stands with the countless Americans protesting systemic racism and the deaths of Black and brown people at the hands of the police. And we draw inspiration from civil rights heroes like Bayard Rustin, an out and proud Black gay man who dedicated his life to fighting injustice.

Visit our season four episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources. Peaceful protesters described as terrorists. All Black Lives Matter. My partner Barney and I went outside to see what was going on—thousands of protestors marching up Ninth Avenue as far as the eye could see—wearing masks, carrying signs, and chanting.

He was a principal architect of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In Augusta quarter of a million Americans massed in Washington, DC, at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial to demand an end to state-sanctioned racism. In addition to coordinating the March on Washington, Bayard was one of the organizers of the very first freedom ride through the American South inand was mentor to Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Bayard Rustin was a proud Black gay man who paid a high price for proclaiming who he was long before it was remotely safe to do so. But he not only resisted, he triumphed. Not to check on rustin gay. If this shows red, does that mean his has stopped?

PB: Has there ever been some project you were involved with where, not that being gay was necessarily an issue, but did you ever feel frustration about…. BR: Oh, certainly. At a given point, there was rustin gay much pressure on Dr. King about my being gay and particularly because I would not deny it, that he set up a committee to explore whether it would be dangerous for me to continue working with him.

And after eight years that committee rustin gay to the decision it would be dangerous. Edgar Hoover began to circulate all kinds of stories about Martin Luther King, one of which was that he was a friend of mine, hinting that somehow or other there might be some homosexual relationship going on between us.

And that committee asked me to leave. BR: That was around And, naturally, I took the position that if people feel that I am a danger to some important movement, I would leave. But I understand his doing it, and I hold no grief with him about having done it.

Now this became very clear to me inwhen I was organizing the March on Washington. And Strom Thurmond stood up in the Senate of the United States and for three-quarters of an hour, attacked me as a draft dodger, which was untrue, because I was a conscientious objector and well known as being a Quaker opposed to all violence.

He attacked me as a former member of the Young Communist League, which was true. I had been.

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He attacked me as a homosexual. Which of course I was. PB: You were the original commie-pinko-fag of the day, I suppose.