Explore LGBTQ History: Dig Deeper
Join us for a 30-day LGBT History Month Challenge!
- Making Gay History: The PodcastBring the largely hidden history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement to life through the voices of the people who lived it. See below for a selected episodes, if you're wondering where to start:
Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March on Washington
August 28, 1963 - the March on Washington - lives in many of our minds as a single moment, a single voice, a single dream. But what you probably don't know is there's a man standing behind Martin Luther King Jr. as he's making this speech, just a few feet to his right. He's tall, thin, wearing thick, black-framed glasses. And this moment would never have happened without him.
- Who Designed the March on Washington?Read more about Bayard Rustin, the man who designed the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 1963, and about his "decades of commitment to vociferous, but always nonviolent, protest."