Rustin, a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. and organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was arrested in 1953 when he was found having sex with two men. He served 50 days in jail.
On April 3, 2018, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Criminal Records (Expungement of Convictions for Historical Homosexual Offences) Bill, and it was signed into law on April 9.
