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California Gov. Gav Newsom issued a posthumo pardon for Rt on Tuday, part of a new iative to grant clemency to people who were prosecuted California for beg gay.

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COLMAN DOMGO IS GAY CIVIL RIGHTS IN BAYARD RT NEW BPIC: PHOTOS

The first look at Gee C. Wolfe's Rt shows Colman Domgo as the gay rights activist the upg Netflix bpic. * bayard rustin gay *

Domgo, who is openly gay, also spoke about the role and what means to thentilly tackle a figure who was both Black and gay, sayg that Black queer men are typilly “not the center” of their own stori. It’s beg guid by someone who’s also an openly gay, openly queer Black male as well. The upg bpic Rt has some official first-look imag, cludg plenty of photos of gay Emmy-Award-wng actor Colman Domgo who plays the film, directed by Gee C.

Produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground and wrten by Julian Breece and Osr wner Dt Lance Black, Rt follows the civil rights activist as he tak on the mammoth task of turng the 1963 March on Washgton om dream to realy, all while ntendg wh racism and homophobia as an out gay Black man the 1960s.

David Lee/Courty of NetflixDomgo, who like Rt is openly gay, has had his own experience beg relegated to the background. David Lee/NETFLIXRt don’t shy away om the plited aspects of s central subject’s homosexualy, how he faced prejudice sometim even om wh the very muny he was fightg for. “His pri about his inty as a Black gay man was tact, and he ed all of that service of this larger ia, ” said Wolfe.

THE STORY OF BAYARD RT, OPENLY GAY LEAR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

This Pri Month, as part of our “Hidn Histori” seri, we look at the ntributns of Bayard Rt, one of the drivg forc of the civil rights movement, whose life as an openly gay man relegated him to behd-the-scen rol much of the time. * bayard rustin gay *

Wolfe directed the film about Bayard Rt, a gay civil rights activist. Wolfe's bpic about a gay rights activist that would change the urse of history.

The film will follow the tular activist while he tri to anize the historil March, alg wh nstant racism and homophobia along the way.

Colman Domgo will be brgg to screen the life of the Ain Amerin gay civil rights activist, Bayard Rt, Netflix's upg bpic drama Rt.

BAYARD RT, A GAY CIVIL RIGHTS LEAR ARRTED FOR HAVG SEX WH MEN, IS PARDONED 67 YEARS LATER

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However, as an openly gay Black man, he is all but erased om the civil rights movement he helped build. As a gay man an era marked by homophobia and racism, he faced severe margalisatn wh the movement as well.

Addnally, his arrt on charg related to homosexualy rulted further scty.

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