PARDON Gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin was posthumously pardoned by California governor Gavin Newsom. Bayard was a civil rights leader who was prosecuted for being gay. Today, he was pardoned and we opened a process to ...
The LGBTQ and Black caucuses of the state Legislature have asked Governor Gavin Newsom to posthumously pardon gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin. Rustin was arrested for an anachronistic law forbidding men from having sex ...