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Doctor King and Byard Ruston - A History of the Civil Rights Movement
Byard ruston was always open about his sexuality. Ruston found himself picked up by the police on a number of occasions because he would be out in new york city in what were called public cruising areas like times square. He had to learn how to do his work without calling attention to himself. But despite his best efforts not to call attention to himself, sometimes the attention found him anyway. It was a vicious cycle of exposure and exile.