US EditionA Bayard Rustin archive aims to preserve his legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist - The Philadelphia Sunday Sun
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A Bayard Rustin archive aims to preserve his legacy as a queer Civil Rights activist - The Philadelphia Sunday Sun
The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will release a digital archive in the fall, preserving Rustin’s legacy in the fight for civil rights. The announcement comes as The AP’s corporate archive discovered news footage of Rustin playing a rarely seen upfront role rallying civil rights supporters.(AP Video: Mary Conlon) By Jaylen Green ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Ba…
PERFORMANCE Queer storyteller talks about channeling 19th-century queer activist
It’s unlikely that many people have heard of William Dorsey Swann. Some people have recognized Swann as the first LGBTQ+ person to lead a resistance movement, and he was known as a leading drag figure. And Swann—a Black person—did these things in the late 19th century in the South. In the upcoming production The Real Black Swann: Confessions of America’s First Black Drag Queen, creator/storyteller Les Kurkendaal-Barrett—who’s based in Los Angel…
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