Celebrate Pride Month by honoring these Black LGBTQ trailblazers

is best known for helping to organize the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, along with Martin Luther King Jr.

Umi Hsu, director of content strategy at the ONE Archives Foundation, which helps preserve LGBTQ history, said Rustin influenced King’s “nonviolent methods of protest” by telling him about the work of Mahatma Gandhi, who led the campaign for India’s independence from Britain through peaceful demonstration.“What’s interesting about Rustin is that while he was doing such important work, he actually had a hard time as a gay man,” Hsu said.

Rustin served nearly two months in jail after being arrested in 1953 for having sex in a parked car after giving a lecture in Pasadena, California. At the time, homosexuality was illegal in California. Although he was originally arrested on charges of lewd conduct and vagrancy, which were frequently used to target sex workers, he was eventually tried on a lesser crime of “sex perversion” .

Rustin’s place within the civil rights movement would become a subject of contention, with NAACP Chairman Roy Wilkins urging organizers to downplay Rustin’s contributions to the March on Washington. However, Rustin would continue fighting for equal rights in the decades to come: In 1986, he spoke on behalf of a proposed bill to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the state of New York.

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NBCOUT I don't remember seeing a National vote to make this Pride Month. When did this happen, or is this the product of progressive liberals working in concert with the leftist main stream media.

NBCOUT Enhorabuena por los LGBTI, muchos de sus derechos han conquistado, falta mucho por hacer, pero algo es algo.

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