Gay trailblazer Bayard Rustin to get his own biopic, courtesy of Barack Obama & Dustin Lance Black

Bayard Rustin / World Telegram & Sun photo by Stanley Wolfson.
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Just one year after receiving a posthumous pardon for gay sex crimes, Civil Rights icon Bayard Rustin is getting his own biopic, produced by former President Barack Obama and Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black.

The Hollywood Reporter reports that Obama’s production company Higher Ground–co-owned with former First Lady Michelle Obama–will produce Rustin for Netflix films. Openly gay, African-American director George C. Wolfe (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the original Broadway production of Angels in America) will direct the film from a script by Black.

No casting or release dates have been announced. [Note to Mr. Wolfe, please get Billy Porter on the phone.]

Bayard Rustin played a crucial role in the American Civil Rights movement…

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