Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Medals of Freedom ceremony: gay partners of honorees Sally Ride and Bayard Rustin sat next
to each other

Walter Naegle, Bayard Rustin's partner, & Tam O'Shaughnessy, Sally Ride's partner, sat together at today's ceremony. (Via @ChrisGeidner)
     If you don't know who Bayard Rustin was or why President Obama is honoring him, watch the video below. (Hint: Dr. Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March On Washington. Rustin organized it.)



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