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Gaylaw
Author | : William N. ESKRIDGE,William N Eskridge |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780674036581 |
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This text provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual nonconformity in the United States. The text is split into three parts covering the post-Civil war period to the 1980s, contemporary issues and legal arguments.
The Morality of Gay Rights
Author | : Carlos Ball |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781135317430 |
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In The Morality of Gay Rights, Ball presents a comprehensive exploration of the connection between gay rights and political philosophy. He discusses the writing of contemporary political and legal philosophers-including Rawls, Walzer, Nussbaum, Sandel, Rorty and Dworkin-to evaluate how their theoretical frameworks fit the specific gay rights controversies, such as same-sex marriage and parenting by lesbians and gay men, that are part of our nation's political and legal debates.
Flagrant Conduct The Story of Lawrence v Texas
Author | : Dale Carpenter |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780393081961 |
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“A highly informative, detailed, even thrilling account of how the Supreme Court arguments reshaped American law.”—Michael Bronkski, San Francisco Chronicle No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Even the call to police that a black man was "going crazy with a gun" was hardly unusual in this urban setting. Nobody could have imagined that the arrest of two men for a minor criminal offense would reverberate in American constitutional law, exposing a deep malignity in our judicial system and challenging the traditional conception of what makes a family. Indeed, when Harris County sheriff’s deputies entered the second-floor apartment, there was no gun. Instead, they reported that they had walked in on John Lawrence and Tyron Garner having sex in Lawrence’s bedroom. So begins Dale Carpenter’s "gripping and brilliantly researched" Flagrant Conduct, a work nine years in the making that transforms our understanding of what we thought we knew about Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark Supreme Court decision of 2003 that invalidated America’s sodomy laws. Drawing on dozens of interviews, Carpenter has taken on the "gargantuan" task of extracting the truth about the case, analyzing the claims of virtually every person involved. Carpenter first introduces us to the interracial defendants themselves, who were hardly prepared "for the strike of lightning" that would upend their lives, and then to the Harris County arresting officers, including a sheriff’s deputy who claimed he had "looked eye to eye" in the faces of the men as they allegedly fornicated. Carpenter skillfully navigates Houston’s complex gay world of the late 1990s, where a group of activists and court officers, some of them closeted themselves, refused to bury what initially seemed to be a minor arrest. The author charts not only the careful legal strategy that Lambda Legal attorneys adopted to make the case compatible to a conservative Supreme Court but also the miscalculations of the Houston prosecutors who assumed that the nation’s extant sodomy laws would be upheld. Masterfully reenacting the arguments that riveted spectators and Justices alike in 2003, Flagrant Conduct then reaches a point where legal history becomes literature, animating a Supreme Court decision as few writers have done. In situating Lawrence v. Texas within the larger framework of America’s four-century persecution of gay men and lesbians, Flagrant Conduct compellingly demonstrates that gay history is an integral part of our national civil rights story.
Dishonorable Passions
Author | : William N. Eskridge |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0670018627 |
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A history of the government's regulation of sexual behavior traces the historical purposes behind the prohibition against sodomy in early America and continues with a discussion of how the law was referenced in different contexts in later years, covering such topics as the McCarthy era, the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and the 2003 Supreme Court decision to decriminalize private sex between consenting adults. 20,000 first printing.
Proud Heritage 3 volumes
Author | : Chuck Stewart |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 1611 |
Release | : 2014-12-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9798216133483 |
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This groundbreaking three-volume reference traces the roots and development of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights and issues in the United States from the pre-colonial period to the present day. With the social, religious, and political stigmas attached to alternative lifestyles throughout history, most homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgender people lived covertly for much of, if not all of, their lives. Likewise, the narrative of our country excludes the contributions, struggles, and historical achievements of this group. This revealing, chronologically arranged reference work uncovers the rich story of the LGBT community in the United States and discusses the politics, culture, and issues affecting it since the early 17th century. Author Chuck Stewart traces the evolution of LGBT issues as part of our nation's shared cultural past and modern-day experience. Volume 1 focuses on the origins of the movement with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 through the 1970s and the beginning of gay rights activism in the United States. Volume 2 spans the 1980s and the AIDs pandemic through the present-day issues of marriage equality. Volume 3 gives a concise review of this society in each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
The Unfinished Revolution
Author | : Stephen M. Engel |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2001-07-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0521003776 |
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Compares the post-Second World War histories of the American and British gay and lesbian movements.
The First Amendment and LGBT Equality
Author | : Carlos A. Ball |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2017-03-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674972193 |
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Carlos A. Ball argues that as progressives fight the First Amendment claims of religious conservatives and other LGBT opponents, they should take care not to forget the crucial role the First Amendment played in the early decades of the movement, and not to erode the safeguards of liberty that allowed LGBT rights to exist in the first place.
Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States
Author | : United States. Supreme Court |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 808 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822032874489 |
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