At Religion Dispatches, Stephen Angell and Leigh Eason profile the life of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. An openly gay African American and a Quaker, Rustin worked with and advised Martin Luther King, Jr., and was a vocal leader in the LGBT community. According to Angell and Eason, his advocacy for non-violence and civil rights was shaped by his Quaker faith. “But Rustin has long been denied his proper place,” they write, “largely because he was an openly gay man.”