LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That

LGBT History Gets Short Shrift in Schools. There's an Effort to Change That

Teachers sit at square tables in a college classroom here poring over primary and secondary sources about the civil rights icon Bayard Rustin.

There's his 1987 obituary in The New York Times, which avoids any mention of his sexual orientation. There are copies of FBI documents from the mid-20th century, which, in coded language, talk about his male companions. There's a piece about an interview with Rustin's longtime partner, Walter Naegle, detailing how, in the absence of any other way to secure legal protection for their relationship in the 1970s, Rustin adopted him. . .