22. Bae-yard Rustin: The Man Behind the March

History is Gay

Leigh Pfeffer

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 536 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

February means love and Black History, so join Gretchen and Leigh as they celebrate both by diving into into the life and work of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin! Due to his being gay, Rustin's role as advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr. and in organizing the 1963 March on Washington was actively erased for several decades. Fortunately, he's been gaining more recognition in recent years and both queer history and civil rights history is actively recovering his memory and legacy. So join us as we talk about one of the most impactful but least well-known activists of the civil rights movement.

Outline

0:00 – Introduction
5:14 – Main Topic: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March
5:23– Socio-Historical Context
12:00 – Who were they? Bio Time.
1:05:17 – Why do we think they're gay?
1:23:17 – Fun Segment: Pop Culture Tie-In
1:27:05 – How Gay were They?
1:29:20 – Closing and Where to Find us Online

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to History is Gay, a podcast that examines the underappreciated and overlooked
0:05.7	queer ladies, gents, and gentle enbies that have always been there in the unexplored
0:10.0	corners of history, because history has never been as straight as you think.
0:31.1	Okay. Hey, folks, I'm Lee.
0:32.3	And I'm Gretchen.
0:33.5	And we're back.
0:48.0	And in this episode, we are talking about the man behind the march on Washington in 1963, one of the most, pardon the pun, core members of the civil rights movement in the 60s. And generally one of the most wonderful pacifist activists ever Bayard Rustin.
0:55.6	Yes.
0:56.3	Because he's Bay.
0:57.5	Yes.
0:57.9	Bayard is Bay.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.3	We couldn't resist the pun.
1:01.7	We can never resist a pun.
1:03.2	No.
1:03.6	We really enjoy any opportunity we have.
1:07.3	Can I be pun sexual?
1:09.0	Is that a thing?
1:10.1	That's my identity. If we put it on a shirt, it's real. So, yes. I'm pun sexual. Cool. Because I cannot resist the puns of any kind. We'll make that along with our, our gavencloth shirt that somebody came into our, came onto our website and was just like, please, make a cave and claw shirt. Begging, begging, begging, begging. It's like, we will, we will, friend, we will. One of my good, speaking of Gave and Clause, one of my good friends just recently retook the Pottermore quiz, and she had always been, like, Hufflepuff primary with Ravenclaw secondary, and she recently just retook it and came out Ravenclaw primary. And I was like,
1:45.6	it's because you're by, honey. Like, the gay, the gavenclaw catches. Like, yeah, like,
1:52.5	you're hanging around me, so you're going to become a gavenclaw eventually. So, I love it.
1:58.8	But, but there are many lovely gays in other houses.
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