This ‘American Gandhi’ never got the attention he deserved because he was gay. A new film may change that

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He was a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr. and organized the March on Washington. But Bayard Rustin was largely forgotten by history because he was an openly gay Black man during an era when homosexuality was seen as a perversion. A new Netflix film rescues Rustin from obscurity while offering lessons for the next generation of activists.

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