Rustin: A Film Screening and Conversation

The LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House is pleased to present a screening of the Netflix film Rustin, which tells the poignant and absorbing story of the largely overlooked civil rights leader Bayard Rustin—who helped Martin Luther King Jr. and others to organize the 1963 March on Washington, yet faced stigmatization and discrimination as a gay man. The screening will be followed by a discussion featuring the film’s producer Bruce Cohen, Hunter College Professor of History D’Weston Haywood, and the Director of the LGBTQ Policy Center at Roosevelt House, Erin Mayo-Adam.