49 Comments on “The Gay Civil Rights Activist Nearly Erased From History”
So inspiring! Thank you for sharing this.
I N C E S T
How you know you're an early music nerd: you watch this cool video about an amazing man of great historical significance, and when you see him holding a lute, you're like OMG HE'S A LUTENIST!!!!!! 🙂
We need to put him in history books and be recognized as an important person, even though he wasn't as famous like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X. Because people should remember that even though you are gay, that people don't respect you of you being gay and all, it doesn't mean you can't stand up for what you believe in. Like Bayard Rustin, he was gay and a Civil Rights Activist. We could teach children and people that you shouldn't be angry or ashamed of yourself because of who you are, and that you do what you believe in even as a person that people hate to see: gay, bisexual, or straight.
For once, a video on Great Big Story about with an LGBT subject that has a proper like-dislike ratio!
How beautiful. And how sad. Jenn ? in Canada ?
Would love to see a video about James Baldwin!
Not surprised we haven't heard him or his advocacy since this is the 1960's which still carry over the '50's anti-LGBT idea as espoused by J. Edgar Hoover's Lavender Scare, Alan Turing persecution under anti-gay laws of the UK and homosexuals still denied recognition and compensation by the Germans as Holocaust victims.
Cool story but it’s kind strange that he adopted him
What with all the gay shit happening in Great Big Story?
This is amazing, I never knew about him until now.
256th
This shit sus ?????
HEY HEY HEY , STILL NOT OK TO BE GAY
Gay, black in the 60s, and married to someone of the different race. This guy had all of the odds against him.
Simply because he was a minority in every sense, doesn't mean he is relevant. Good job subscribing to leftist shitty content, Great Big Story. Didn't see this one coming.
unsubed
People shocked because of the age difference? Excuse me? When did a 27-year-old adult man became suddenly a fucking 5-year–old who cannot make decisions for himself? It's disgusting to see this society treating people like children, and it's getting worse and worse. Stop infantilizing society, you fucking whinny inquisitors!
WE NEED MORE DISLIKES LETS GO BOYS
Really glad he didn't shove being gay in everyone's face and stepped out of the spotlight rather than glorify his disorder.
Why wasn't he in history lessons?
HA GAAAAAY
Being gay its'nt bad u ate the one who takes that desicion
I was pretty much toast ???
I was pretty much toast ???
Honestly no one cares about your sexuality? just be quiet about it i don’t care about it
There should be a movie about him
And it took so many years, and his lover to bring this part of history to light.
Doesn't matter what color or religion you have. Being gay doesn't mean anything. If you're trasgender good for you. You are just being you and that is all I want. If you be someone who your not you are not yourself, you are not an individual! So please be you.
Wow… Never cease to amaze me how many wonderful Afro-Americans that we have in this country
Another part of America history that should not be forgotten!
WOW! A 40 year gap!? Just wow man
Here in ATLANTA, each year on the morning of the MLK MARCH, the L/G/B/Q community has it's annual ' Bayard Rustin/Audre Lorde Breakfast' which honors namesake icons, celebrates progressive community, and supports organizers, artists and others actively involved in social change work. Not only was Rustin the architect of the 1963 March on Washington, he also co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & expanded King’s understanding about (Mahatma) Gandhi’s nonviolent principles.If you haven’t heard much about Rustin, it is because he operated in the shadows. Not because he was still in the closet but because he realized being gay was considered a liability. (it was a HUGE TABOO in the 1960's) Rustin died in 1987 at age 75.
Can't believe I never heard of him. Proud to be black! I love that he was never ashamed of his sexuality this is the type of leaders that needed to be brought to light during the Gay Rights Movement. #POWERFUL
Beautiful story! No offense, but the age Gap tho
I just discovered Rustin tonight and everything I have heard so far, I love. There is so much to learn from this amazing man.
You focus too much on him being gay. What he was really known for, or what he should be known for, were his ideas. He was a socialist, he was against affirmative action, hated identity politics. Having his memory used for the progression of intersectional identity politics would make him turn in his grave.
Why he had to be black?
WE will decide who OUR leaders are. If it requires the setting up of a foundation to promote him, then he was not a leader
Roman J Esquire brought me here
Bayard Rustin was the power behind Martin Luther King Jr. At least he did not get assassinated unlike his black straight brothers. And yet he faced double discrimination.
Wow
This is an abomination in the eyesight of God!. Sin is sin and there was a reason why the Government pushing Martin Luther King to the forefront. This is why black people will be the tail instead of the head and this "curse" will be on our people. The Bible is about our people and we are not ghe Gentiles that the caucasian race has programmed us to believe. All of these so called civil rights leaders failed us! We were never met to "come together" read your Bible's! God calls us a "particular people" and God tells us in the Bible to "come out if Egypt" America is the Spiritual Egypt that the New Testament speaks of but the Roman Catholic church created "Christianity" and these many religions to keep us from knowing who we truly are!. God doesn't love all people! In the Bible God even says "Jacob i love but Esua i hate! But in Christianity these fake preachers wont tell you this because they were taught at these Christian Colleges and Universities funded by guess who ?? The Roman Catholic church!. People use the internet to do your research while the internet is still up and running because once WW3 starts there wont be a internet most likely. Everyone can see how wicked these Presidents are they are hand picked to keep us in the dark and Trump is no different. In the Bible God says "MY PEOPLE PERISH FOR THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE!." Who do you think he's talking about?. Look at what they are doing to people of color all around the world! Look at how evil the Roman Catholic church is they worship false gods just as the American Government does. We all know that the Egyptians weren't white but yet the Europeans have tried to whiteout our history. Our people are under a curse because our Ancestors went from Worshipping the God (Yahuah) of Abraham Issac and Jacob and began worshipping PAGAN deities. Please do your research and you will find out the truth. Even the Calendar's we use are wrong. The weather is changing people are changing humidity is doing the same thing that upset Yahuah and brought destruction (the flood) that whiped out every human except for Noah and his family. Hollywood is run by demonic people that hate our God and will continue to push their agenda and this is to whiteout our race. We are not the "Gentiles" and the so called "Jews" in Israel are Zionists who control the wealth of this world. Yahuah is coming back and this is why they've begun building these underground bunkers and cities because as the Bible says when God returns he's coming to judge the nations who kept his CHOSEN in Bondage. The American Government has fooled us all and the fake news is a ploy to take away guns from caucasian people and start a race war.
Another agent of the racist white government used to distract black "Americans" and so called leaders from doing what needed to be done. Malcom saw through him. Rustin should be forgotten!
So inspiring! Thank you for sharing this.
I N C E S T
How you know you're an early music nerd: you watch this cool video about an amazing man of great historical significance, and when you see him holding a lute, you're like OMG HE'S A LUTENIST!!!!!! 🙂
We need to put him in history books and be recognized as an important person, even though he wasn't as famous like Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and Malcolm X. Because people should remember that even though you are gay, that people don't respect you of you being gay and all, it doesn't mean you can't stand up for what you believe in. Like Bayard Rustin, he was gay and a Civil Rights Activist. We could teach children and people that you shouldn't be angry or ashamed of yourself because of who you are, and that you do what you believe in even as a person that people hate to see: gay, bisexual, or straight.
For once, a video on Great Big Story about with an LGBT subject that has a proper like-dislike ratio!
How beautiful. And how sad.
Jenn ? in Canada ?
Would love to see a video about James Baldwin!
Not surprised we haven't heard him or his advocacy since this is the 1960's which still carry over the '50's anti-LGBT idea as espoused by J. Edgar Hoover's Lavender Scare, Alan Turing persecution under anti-gay laws of the UK and homosexuals still denied recognition and compensation by the Germans as Holocaust victims.
Cool story but it’s kind strange that he adopted him
What with all the gay shit happening in Great Big Story?
This is amazing, I never knew about him until now.
256th
This shit sus ?????
HEY HEY HEY , STILL NOT OK TO BE GAY
Gay, black in the 60s, and married to someone of the different race. This guy had all of the odds against him.
Simply because he was a minority in every sense, doesn't mean he is relevant. Good job subscribing to leftist shitty content, Great Big Story. Didn't see this one coming.
unsubed
People shocked because of the age difference? Excuse me? When did a 27-year-old adult man became suddenly a fucking 5-year–old who cannot make decisions for himself? It's disgusting to see this society treating people like children, and it's getting worse and worse. Stop infantilizing society, you fucking whinny inquisitors!
WE NEED MORE DISLIKES LETS GO BOYS
Really glad he didn't shove being gay in everyone's face and stepped out of the spotlight rather than glorify his disorder.
Why wasn't he in history lessons?
HA GAAAAAY
Being gay its'nt bad u ate the one who takes that desicion
I was pretty much toast ???
I was pretty much toast ???
Honestly no one cares about your sexuality? just be quiet about it i don’t care about it
There should be a movie about him
And it took so many years, and his lover to bring this part of history to light.
Doesn't matter what color or religion you have. Being gay doesn't mean anything. If you're trasgender good for you. You are just being you and that is all I want. If you be someone who your not you are not yourself, you are not an individual! So please be you.
Wow… Never cease to amaze me how many wonderful Afro-Americans that we have in this country
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNjx7Fsm73A
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What’s the name on he piano song
He’s so in love this is so cute
Another part of America history that should not be forgotten!
WOW! A 40 year gap!? Just wow man
Here in ATLANTA, each year on the morning of the MLK MARCH, the L/G/B/Q community has it's annual ' Bayard Rustin/Audre Lorde Breakfast' which honors namesake icons, celebrates progressive community, and supports organizers, artists and others actively involved in social change work. Not only was Rustin the architect of the 1963 March on Washington, he also co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) & expanded King’s understanding about (Mahatma) Gandhi’s nonviolent principles.If you haven’t heard much about Rustin, it is because he operated in the shadows. Not because he was still in the closet but because he realized being gay was considered a liability. (it was a HUGE TABOO in the 1960's) Rustin died in 1987 at age 75.
Can't believe I never heard of him. Proud to be black! I love that he was never ashamed of his sexuality this is the type of leaders that needed to be brought to light during the Gay Rights Movement. #POWERFUL
Beautiful story! No offense, but the age Gap tho
I just discovered Rustin tonight and everything I have heard so far, I love. There is so much to learn from this amazing man.
You focus too much on him being gay. What he was really known for, or what he should be known for, were his ideas. He was a socialist, he was against affirmative action, hated identity politics. Having his memory used for the progression of intersectional identity politics would make him turn in his grave.
Why he had to be black?
WE will decide who OUR leaders are. If it requires the setting up of a foundation to promote him, then he was not a leader
Roman J Esquire brought me here
Bayard Rustin was the power behind Martin Luther King Jr. At least he did not get assassinated unlike his black straight brothers. And yet he faced double discrimination.
Wow
This is an abomination in the eyesight of God!. Sin is sin and there was a reason why the Government pushing Martin Luther King to the forefront. This is why black people will be the tail instead of the head and this "curse" will be on our people. The Bible is about our people and we are not ghe Gentiles that the caucasian race has programmed us to believe. All of these so called civil rights leaders failed us! We were never met to "come together" read your Bible's! God calls us a "particular people" and God tells us in the Bible to "come out if Egypt" America is the Spiritual Egypt that the New Testament speaks of but the Roman Catholic church created "Christianity" and these many religions to keep us from knowing who we truly are!. God doesn't love all people! In the Bible God even says "Jacob i love but Esua i hate! But in Christianity these fake preachers wont tell you this because they were taught at these Christian Colleges and Universities funded by guess who ?? The Roman Catholic church!. People use the internet to do your research while the internet is still up and running because once WW3 starts there wont be a internet most likely. Everyone can see how wicked these Presidents are they are hand picked to keep us in the dark and Trump is no different. In the Bible God says "MY PEOPLE PERISH FOR THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE!." Who do you think he's talking about?. Look at what they are doing to people of color all around the world! Look at how evil the Roman Catholic church is they worship false gods just as the American Government does. We all know that the Egyptians weren't white but yet the Europeans have tried to whiteout our history. Our people are under a curse because our Ancestors went from Worshipping the God (Yahuah) of Abraham Issac and Jacob and began worshipping PAGAN deities. Please do your research and you will find out the truth. Even the Calendar's we use are wrong. The weather is changing people are changing humidity is doing the same thing that upset Yahuah and brought destruction (the flood) that whiped out every human except for Noah and his family. Hollywood is run by demonic people that hate our God and will continue to push their agenda and this is to whiteout our race. We are not the "Gentiles" and the so called "Jews" in Israel are Zionists who control the wealth of this world. Yahuah is coming back and this is why they've begun building these underground bunkers and cities because as the Bible says when God returns he's coming to judge the nations who kept his CHOSEN in Bondage. The American Government has fooled us all and the fake news is a ploy to take away guns from caucasian people and start a race war.
Another agent of the racist white government used to distract black "Americans" and so called leaders from doing what needed to be done.
Malcom saw through him. Rustin should be forgotten!
We all have stories, lord knows I do! ?? ????