Bayard & Me

Directed by Matt Wolf · Starring Walter Naegle · 2017

Walter Naegle remembers his partner, civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin, who legally adopted him in the 1980s to protect their relationship decades before marriage equality.

A moving, little-known love story at the heart of civil rights history.

Bayard & Me is a short doc about how the openly gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, best known for organizing the March on Washington and advising Martin Luther King Jr., adopted his partner Walter Naegle in the 198

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