http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/02/03/local-news-in-brief-21/ the gay community's news source Tue, 21 May 2013 16:59:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/02/03/local-news-in-brief-21/#comment-18230 Rod Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:29:50 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=17348#comment-18230 That’s precisely the point. Despite the ridicule, and the desire for some people in the civil rights movement to keep Rustin in the background, Rustin still organized the 1963 March on Washington. It’s only fitting that a community mobilization initiative serving Black gay and bisexual men be named after an openly Black Gay Man who organized one of the biggest community mobilization projects this nation has known.

]]> http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/02/03/local-news-in-brief-21/#comment-13646 Bill Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:54:26 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=17348#comment-13646 It’s interesting that NAPWA named the prevention project after Bayard Rustin, particularly given the homophobic ridicule that MLK made against him.

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