Bayard Rustin pardoned in redress for LGBTQ charges

Quaker civil rights leader Bayard Rustin has been posthumously pardoned for his 1953 as part of an overhaul of historic gay convictions in the USA

by Rebecca Hardy 14th February 2020

The Quaker civil rights leader Bayard Rustin has been pardoned for his 1953 conviction under laws targeting LGBTQ people as part of an overhaul of historic gay convictions in the USA.