March 29, 2017- Ocean Grove, NJ – QFest New Jersey LGBT Film & Digital Media Festival will hold a special screening of BAYARD & ME and THE LAVENDER SCARE on Sunday, April 9th at 2pm.  Both films examine the personal and political ways in which the LGBT community fought for equal rights and protections since the 1950s.  BAYARD & ME will feature special guest Walter Naegle. THE LAVENDER SCARE will feature special guest Director Josh Howard.  For the full festival schedule and tickets, visit www.QFestNJ.org.  BAYARD & ME
Bayard Rustin was the organizer of the March on Washington and one of the leaders of the civil rights movement. In the 1980s Bayard adopted his younger boyfriend Walter Naegle to obtain the legal protections of marriage. In this intimate love story, Walter remembers Bayard and a time when gay marriage was inconceivable. He reflects on the little known phenomena of intergenerational gay adoption and its connection to the civil rights movement.

THE LAVENDER SCARE
With the United States gripped in the panic of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower deems homosexuals to be “security risks” and orders the immediate firing of any government employee discovered to be gay or lesbian. It triggers a vicious witch hunt that lasts for forty years and ruins thousands of lives, while thrusting an unlikely hero into the forefront of what would become the modern LGBT rights movement.
ABOUT QFEST
QFest New Jersey LGBT Film and Digital Media Festival strives to support and promote LGBT film & digital media, the individuals who create it, and the people and stories they highlight. QFest, the only annual LGBT film & digital media festival in NJ, is produced by QSpot, one of New Jersey’s largest LGBT community centers.