MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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67 Years Later, Bayard Pardoned Posthumously
By rmrd0000 on Wed, 02/05/2020 - 4:59pm |He was a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, a crucial strategist on nonviolent tactics and an adviser to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Bayard Rustin was also openly gay. And in 1953, he was arrested for having consensual sex with men in Pasadena, Calif. The “morals charge,” which was often used to target gay people in those years, remained a stain on his record and nearly sidelined him from the movement he helped create.
On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) issued a posthumous pardon for Rustin.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/02/05/bayard-rustin-newsom-pardon/
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Thanks. Good for Newsom.
Brings back memories . I stretched my $40/week 1954 salary by sharing a flat with a gay guy. Worrying some of his friends : " giving hostages to fortune."
The gay bar was unmarked. On a mixed street , warehouses and residential. When there was no one around enter one particular anonymous doorway ,with a small letter N . A dark vestibule , a stair way leading up to other floors , who knows . On the ground floor ,enter an of course unmarked door. The " Napolean" the gay bar
Initially I was vouched for by someone , probably my flat mate. After that , just a face in the crowd.
And it was always crowded
by Flavius on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 8:41am
That's cuz every hour's happy hour.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 10:51am
wow you were bonafide 1950's demi-monde, living the "Tobacco Road" life....comes to mind there were probably FBI agents at that bar...
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 4:27pm
Yeah, easy to spot - they wore wingtips with their nylons.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 02/10/2020 - 4:29pm