In this intergenerational conversation, Bryan Carter and Robt Seda-Schreiber reintroduce Bayard Rustin as the queer, pacifist strategist whose mentorship and moral clarity shaped the civil rights movement, confronting the homophobia that pushed him to the margins of history. Through jazz, storytelling, and intentional education, they show that Rustin’s true legacy lies not only in his strategic brilliance, but in his humility, service, and insistence on bringing his whole, intersectional self to the work of justice.