Political Notes: Black LGBTQ group renews call for Bayard Rustin stamp
A national Black LGBTQ advocacy group is renewing the call for the U.S. Postal Service to honor deceased gay Black civil rights leader Bayard Rustin with a stamp.
It is also calling on Congress to pass legislation that would require the postal agency to issue such postage.It has been eight years since the International Court System and the National LGBTQ Task Force launched a campaign to create a commemorative U.S.
postage stamp in honor of Rustin, who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington and was a top adviser to the late Reverend Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Rustin died August 24, 1987, at the age of 75.On the 110th anniversary of Rustin's birth March 17, the National Black Justice Coalition called on Congress to pass the Bayard Rustin Stamp Act introduced last August by Congressmember Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-Washington, D.C.).
