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Colonel Jack Hays

James K. Greer

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The Sodomy Cases

David A. J. Richards

Texas Landmarks

The Sodomy Cases

For America's gay community, the question of rights is often reduced to the issue of privacy. Until very recently, even though this right has been upheld by the Supreme Court in landmark cases relating to contraception and abortion, the issue of "nonprocreational sex" continued to trigger a double standard for gay men. Now David Richards, a leading legal scholar who is himself gay, shows how two other landmark cases nearly twenty years apart shed light on America's evolving views of privacy.



The Supreme Court's decision in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) stemmed from a 1982 gay-sex arrest in an Atlanta home under a Georgia law that criminalized sodomy--a case not originally prosecuted, but then pursued in court to challenge the statute's constitutionality. Lawrence v. Texas (2003) followed a similar arrest in 1998 in Houston, where Texas law also criminalized sodomy--but only when practiced by members of the same sex.



Richards views these cases as the nadir and apogee of the gay community's efforts to fight discrimination through the ...

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 #9

Landmarks of Texas Architecture

Lawrence W. Speck

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#8

Up the Trail from Texas. Landmark Books Series No. 60

J. Frank Dobie
John C. Wonsetler

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#7

History Ahead

Dan K. Utley
Cynthia J. Beeman

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#6

Living Witness

Ralph Yznaga
Damon Waitt

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Texas Missions and Landmarks

Jack Harmon

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#4

Twisted Tales of Texas Landmarks

Charlotte Phillips

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#3

US Supreme Court, LandMark Publications

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#2

Celebrating Texas

Trisha James

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A loving heart is

the beginning

of all knowledge.

~Thomas Carlyle

(from Revealing Your EXTRAORDINARY Essence by Cynthia James)

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Up the Trail from Texas (Landmark Books, 60)

J. Frank Dobie
John C. Wonsetler

Texas Landmarks
#1

Texas Landmark Cafes

June Naylor
George Toomer

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