Pride Month Wraps Up with Rustin Film Screening Today
Friday, June 27, 2008
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
The DC Labor Filmfest celebrates Pride Month with a free noontime screening
of "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin" today at noon. One of the first
"freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip
Randolph, organizer of the march on Washington, Bayard Rustin was denied his place in the limelight for
one reason: he was gay. The film contributes a fascinating new chapter to our
understanding of both progressive movements and gay life in 20th-century
America. Today's screening follows two packed screenings of the film on Tuesday
(AFT
& AFGE 12 Turn Out for Rustin Film 6/25/08 UC). The screening is being
sponsored by the DC Labor Filmfest, the Labor Heritage Foundation, Pride at
Work, AFL-CIO and the A. Philip Randolph Institute DC chapter.