Civil rights icon Bayard Rustin is finally pardoned for anti-gay charges
announced the creation of a new process that would pardon others convicted under similarly cruel“In California and across the country, many laws have been used as legal tools of oppression, and to stigmatize and punish LGBTQ people and communities and warn others what harm could await them for living authentically,” Newsom said in a statement.
“I thank those who advocated for Bayard Rustin’s pardon, and I want to encourage others in similar situations to seek a pardon to right this egregious wrong.”, Newsom pardoned Rustin at the urging of Scott Wiener, who leads the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, and Shirley Weber, the“He deserves to be remembered as one of the towering figures in the cause of justice,” Weber saidAdvertisement
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