Flagrant conduct
Subtitle: the story of Lawrence v. Texas : how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans
By: Dale Carpenter
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780393062083
Subjects: Gays; Homosexuality; Trials, litigation; Texas; Criminal provisions; Law and legislation; Trials (Sodomy); Legal status, laws
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A crime of deep malignity; title: The city and the cause; title: The defendants and the troublemaker; title: The department and the deputies; title: The intrusion; title: Uncivil disobedience; title: A probable explanation for an improbable case; title: The homosexual status law; title: From the jail to the bar; title: From the gay bar to the bar; title: Into the Texas courts; title: The constitutional case takes shape; title: The politics of law; title: The constitutional mainstream; title: Mismatch at the Supreme Court; title: Respect for their private lives; title: Epilogue : sweet land of liberty.