Gay in the Civil Rights Movement

Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was openly gay before anyone ever even considered using the term "openly gay". Working closly with Martin Luther King, Jr., he was an activist that opposed violence and bigotry with the nonviolent direct action methods of Gandhi.


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