The Gay Black Man who was the brains of the Civil Rights Movement

By James Creer, BBINT Magazine Managing Editor




A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhis protest techniques to the American civil rights movement, and helped mold Martin Luther King, Jr. into...

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Rev Dr. Martin Luther King, and Bayard Rutin
at the Montgomery Bus Boycott, circa 1956

"One cannot fight for peace. It is like fucking for virginity, to paraphrase the ole protest slogan at peace rallies spanning time and a range of conflicts."