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Colman Domingo, above, and Ben Platt, below Civil Rights movement hero Bayard Rustin gets biopic with Colman Domingo Bayard Rustin, one of the organizers of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 March on Washington, was less often a public figure because he was openly gay at a time before the queer civil rights movement had the momentum it built in the 1970s.
But Rustin’s Quaker beliefs were part of King’s philosophy of justice and non-violence, and now it’s time for his place in history to get its spotlight with a biopic.
And we couldn’t ask for a better actor to take on this role than Colman Domingo. Tony-nominated for The Scottsboro Boys, the openly gay actor has also been working for a long time now in film and — Zola, Euphoria, Ma Rainey’s
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HIV Discoverer Luc Montagnier Dead at 89
The New York Times reports.His discovery was important but not without controversy. The deadly disease that had first surfaced in 1981 and was eventually given the name of AIDS, for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, was devastating gay and bisexual men, along with certain other populations, but its cause remained mysterious for some time.Some scientists, however, suspected it was caused by a retrovirus, “a kind of germ that slips into the host cell’s DNA and takes control, in a reversal of the way viruses typically work; hence the name retro,” the Times notes.Montagnier, an expert on retroviruses, and his team at the Pasteur Institute did research in 1983 on a lymph node that had been removed from a person with AIDS.
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