Claim: George Chauncey argued for the historical specificity of understandings of sodomy and was an expert witness in the California Proposition 8 case.
Evidence: In that brief, Chauncey argued for the historical specificity of understandings of sodomy, challenging the reasoning in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) that antisodomy laws were an enduring feature of the American legal system. Chauncey most notably testified as an expert witness in the California Proposition 8 case, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, on behalf of the successful plaintiffs.