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- Iconic civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and his partner, Walter Naegle, were one such couple. The two men fell in love and were together for many years. And 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 Naegle, who was decades his junior.
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Jun 28, 2015 · Iconic civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and his partner, Walter Naegle, were one such couple. The two men fell in love and were together for many years.
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Feb 12, 2014 · When looking back on his time with Bayard, Naegle recalls that it was their shared love for pacifism and nonviolence that allowed their relationship to thrive.
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Nov 17, 2023 · 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. Where is Walter Naegle Now?
Feb 19, 2015 · In celebration of Black History Month, I talked with Walter Naegle, who was pioneer civil rights activist Bayard Rustin's partner for the last decade of Rustin's life (who died in 1987).
Relationship with Bayard Rustin. [edit] Naegle first met Bayard Rustin in April 1977: [1] The day that I met Bayard I was actually on my way to Times Square. We were on the same corner waiting for the light to change. He had a wonderful shock of white hair. I guess he was of my parents' generation, but we looked at each other and lightning struck.
Walter Naegle, was Bayard Rustin's life partner for over a decade before his passing. He is one of the first LGBTQ partners to accept a Presidential Medal of Freedom on their partner's...
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Walter Naegle met Bayard Rustin in 1977 and was his partner for the last 10 years of his life. Naegle is the co-author of Bayard Rustin: Troublemaker for Justice and serves as executive director of The Bayard Rustin Estate, which works to sustain Rustin’s vision of a peaceful and equitable world.
