California’s governor announces that he is posthumously pardoning gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, while creating a new pardon process for others convicted under outdated laws punishing homosexual activity.
He issued an executive order creating what he called a new clemency initiative to identify those who might be eligible for pardons and swiftly consider those applications.
The California Legislature’s LGBTQ and black caucuses last month asked the Democratic governor to pardon Rustin. “Generations of LGBT people — including countless gay men — were branded criminals and sex offenders simply because they had consensual sex," Wiener said in a statement praising Newsom's actions. “This was often life-ruining, and many languished on the sex offender registry for decades.”“Rustin was a great American who was both gay and black at a time when the sheer fact of being either or both could land you in jail,” she said in a statement praising Newsom.
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