Rustin

The movie "Rustin" is a biopic set in the early 1960''s civil rights era about a man who was openly gay when it was still a crime. In fact being both black and gay in America in 1963 meant your life was guranteed to be no picnic.

But Bayard Rustin was no shrinking violet and his work with the NAACP and with Martin Luther King towards organizing the March on Washington in 1963 ended up being his crowning achievement.

Colman Domingo steals the show here as Rustin and portrays him as a man of courage and dignity freed from the type of stigma that one would have expected to experience in this era. His tenacity and ability to keep his head high in the face of extreme prejudice paved the way for later generations.

On Netflix and highly recommended.