Bayard Rustin was an unsung hero of the civil rights ... calling him a "sexual pervert" and bringing national media attention to his 1953 arrest for having sex with two men in a parked car.

Bayard Rustin, a Native Son who died in 1987 ... or making out in parked cars In 1953, police officers arrested Rustin on “moral charges” for having sex with another man in a parked car ...

He recorded an album of spirituals and (believe it or not) Elizabethan songs – the same Bayard Rustin whose involvement in non-violent protests got him beaten. He was arrested more than 20 times ...

Raised by his Quaker grandmother in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Bayard Rustin was born in 1912 into a multiracial community. He was first arrested when he was in high school for attempting to ...

As Bayard Rustin—an openly gay civil rights ... Rustin’s political enemies have dredged up an old scandal. In 1953, Rustin was arrested for having sex with two men in a parked car in Pasadena ...

By Tiffany Martinbrough As an adolescent, Bayard Rustin had many virtues ... Walter Naegle, told me, and Rustin was arrested and beaten as a result. Rustin was open, both in the way he fought ...

“Bayard Rustin was a civil rights organizer in the ... Q: Rustin was also openly gay, having been arrested and punished for his sexuality during a time of even greater discrimination against ...