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Our Bayard, the Celebrity: On George C. Wolfe’s “Rustin”
Marcus Lee looks at the new Netflix biopic of Bayard Rustin in the context of his reception and iconography.
Marcus Lee
Marcus Lee is the Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in LGBT studies and lecturer in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. His forthcoming project, “The Search for Our Bayard,” examines shifting historical representations of Bayard Rustin, from 1987 to 2013.