How I Fell in Love With Bayard Rustin

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        How I Fell in Love With Bayard Rustin
    Watch a clip from a film about an unlikely love story — one involving civil rights icon Bayard Rustin.
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 Allison Tate
          
          Dec 12, 2017
          
        
Allison Tate
Allison Tate is the Director of Editorial Video at Pride Media, and creates videos for The Advocate, OUT and PRIDE. She is a filmmaker, swing dancer, and enthusiastic Carol fan who works to amplify marginalized voices in media. 
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Bayard & Me is a short documentary about how the gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin -- best known for organizing the March on Washington and advising Martin Luther King, Jr. -- adopted his partner, Walter Naegle, for legal protections. Bayard & Me premiered at Sundance and won in the Documentary Short category at Outfest. IndieWire has called it one of the year's most exciting queer films.
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How I Fell in Love With Bayard Rustin

Watch a clip from a film about an unlikely love story — one involving civil rights icon Bayard Rustin.

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