2015年6月28日 · Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and his life partner, Walter Naegle, wanted to legally protect their relationship. But it was the early 1980s, when marriage wasn't an option — and adoption...

2016年1月18日 · Walter Naegle, Rustin's partner for the last 10 years of his life, spoke about his relationship with Bayard and his feelings about the medal after the announcement. "I think it's wonderful....

2015年6月28日 · Back then, the iconic civil rights leader Bayard Rustin (left) and his partner, Walter Naegle (right), a man decades his junior, fell in love. They were together for many years. As Bayard was getting older, they decided to formalize their relationship in the only way that was possible for gay people at the time–Rustin adopted Walter Naegle.

2024年10月26日 · Did Bayard Rustin have a wife? Bayard Rustin never married and was known for his relationships with men, particularly with his long-term partner, Walter Naegle.

2023年11月17日 · Unfortunately, though, this happiness couldn’t last forever as Bayard sadly passed away from a perforated appendix a mere five years later, on August 24, 1987, at the age of 75, meaning the couple got a decade together.

That’s what American civil rights leader Bayard Rustin had to do to ensure protections for his life partner, Walter Naegle in the days long before marriage equality. It’s a fabulous story of love (and legalities), set in one our favourite places in the world, New York City .

2013年8月29日 · When civil rights leader and organizer Bayard Rustin died in 1987, his New York Times obituary referred to his partner Walter Naegle as his adopted son. “It hurt.

2023年8月30日 · American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (center) with his wife Coretta Scott King and colleagues during a March 1965 civil rights march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital...

2023年11月17日 · Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin planned the 1963 March on Washington and advised Martin Luther King Jr. Read about his life, the movie ‘Rustin,’ and more.

2017年8月28日 · Bayard Rustin, left, and Walter Naegle were a couple more than 40 years before marriage equality was conceivable, but they wanted to legalize their relationship to have the rights afforded to heterosexual couples.