Governor posthumously pardons civil rights leader for Pasadena ‘lewd act’

LOS ANGELES — Gov. Gavin Newsom granted a posthumous pardon Wednesday to black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, a principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and a top adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Rustin was arrested in Pasadena on a “morals charge” in 1953 for having sex in a parked car with another man and spent nearly two months in jail. He died in 1987.
Newsom on Wednesday announced a new clemency initiative to pardon people prosecuted under discrimi