{"id":309808,"date":"2025-10-17T04:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309808\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T04:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:20:18","slug":"advocates-say-bayard-rustin-story-deserves-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/309808\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates say Bayard Rustin story deserves recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project learned earlier this month that a promised $32,000 federal grant was gone.<\/p>\n<p>The money was meant to document and nominate the home of Bayard Rustin, the man who organized the March on Washington, as a National Historic Landmark.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project learned earlier this month a promised $32,000 federal grant was taken back by the federal government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The money was meant to document and nominate the home of Bayard Rustin, the man who organized the March on Washington, as a National Historic Landmark<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Despite losing the grant, they turned their 10 year anniversary party into a fundraiser, beating their goal before the night even began<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cBayard Rustin contributed so much to this country, and recognizing his residence is an important element in the full American story,\u201d co-founder Ken Lustbader said.<\/p>\n<p>The work takes months of research, mapping, photography and interviews. It\u2019s a painstaking process of preserving a story that history once ignored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe like to say we\u2019re making an invisible history visible,\u201d Lustbader said.<\/p>\n<p>Lustbader and his co-founders, all preservation experts, started this project 10 years ago to prove queer history didn\u2019t begin or end at Stonewall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to show that gay and lesbian and trans and queer people were a part of the history of New York and of America,\u201d co-founder Andrew Dolkart said.<\/p>\n<p>Their research connects past to present. After losing the grant,\u00a0they turned their 10 year anniversary party into a fundraiser and beat their goal before the night even began.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can never erase LGBTQ lives,\u201d Lustbader said.<\/p>\n<p>With the money in hand to do the research to nominate Rustin, they wonder whether the federal government will give his home landmark status because of his identity.<\/p>\n<p>NY1 reached out to the National Park Service, which gave the grant.<\/p>\n<p>In an email, the department replied that, due to the federal government shutdown, they would \u201crespond to non-shutdown related queries once appropriations have been enacted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project learned earlier this month that a promised $32,000 federal grant was gone.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,21399,7448,9829,21400,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-309808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-human-interest","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-human-interest","12":"tag-louis-finley","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115387592023383031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}