SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The California Legislature’s LGBTQ and black caucuses want Gov.
Gavin Newsom to posthumously pardon a civil rights leader who was jailed for having gay sex nearly 70 years ago.
Bayard Rustin was a confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. along with being a key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.
Lawmakers said Tuesday that he was arrested when he was caught having sex with two men in a parked car after he gave a speech in Pasadena in 1953.
He served 50 days in Los Angeles County jail and had to register as a sex offender. Rustin died in 1987.
