Walter Naegle (born 1949) [1] is an American artist and photographer who is the surviving partner of late American Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin, and the executive director of the Bayard …

Jun 28, 2015 · Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin and his life partner, Walter Naegle, wanted to legally protect their relationship. But it was the early 1980s, when marriage wasn't an option — …

Nov 17, 2023 · Unfortunately, though, this happiness couldn’t last forever as Bayard sadly passed away from a perforated appendix a mere five years later, on August 24, 1987, at the age of 75, …

Jan 18, 2016 · Walter Naegle, Rustin's partner for the last 10 years of his life, spoke about his relationship with Bayard and his feelings about the medal after the announcement. "I think it's …

Nov 18, 2023 · Bayard Rustin and I met in 1977. I was 27 years old and he was 65. We met quite by chance, waiting for a light to turn on a street corner in Times Square. We looked at each …

Aug 28, 2017 · Bayard Rustin, left, and Walter Naegle were a couple more than 40 years before marriage equality was conceivable, but they wanted to legalize their relationship to have the …

Feb 1, 2021 · The 2003 documentary “ Brother Outsider ” discusses Rustin and Walter Naegle’s relationship, showing their de facto common-law marriage (itself involving Rustin’s adoption of …

Feb 25, 2015 · Walter Naegle was Rustin’s partner. In 2013, Naegle accepted Rustin’s Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama on Rustin’s behalf and he recently wrote the Foreword for the …

Five years into their relationship, Bayard Rustin legally adopted Naegle through an administrative loophole; going through the rigmarole of the adoption process, under deep scrutiny.

Jun 28, 2015 · Back then, the iconic civil rights leader Bayard Rustin (left) and his partner, Walter Naegle (right), a man decades his junior, fell in love. They were together for many years.