Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice

The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice is a nonprofit organization located in Princeton, New Jersey. It hosts programming and events geared towards public health, gender and sexual advocacy, and civil rights for marginalized people, particularly LGBTQIA+ youth. The center was named in honor of Bayard Rustin, a Black and gay activist of the American civil rights movement and houses the first of its kind digital Queer History Archive dedicated to preserving his life and legacy. The center also organizes with partner organizations across the country various exhibits and programs to amplify the oft-erased intersectional Black Queer Civil & LGBTQIA+ Rights pioneer to the greater community such as their “Bayard Rustin at the Crossroads” exhibit curated at the Stonewall Museum that spotlights the importance of intersectionality intertwined with stories of the civil rights movement.