Pride Month Wraps Up with Rustin Film Screening Today

(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.