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Bayard Rustin: The Gay Man Behind the March on Washington
When you picture the March on Washington in 1963, you probably see Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have A Dream" speech to hundreds of thousands gathered at the Lincoln Memorial. What you might not know: the person who organized that march, who made it logistically possible, who spent months planning every detail, was a gay Black man named Bayard Rustin.