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478 US 1022 (1986) is a federal lawsuit challenging the legality of the sodomy law of the state of Texas. Plaintiff Donald Baker contended that the law violatedLGBTQ rights in Belize (2,835 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
decriminalized in Belize in 2016, when the Supreme Court declared Belize's anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. Belize's constitution prohibits discrimination on the1998 in LGBT rights (977 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
- The Constitutional Court of South Africa strikes down the country's sodomy law in National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality and Another v MinisterLGBTQ history in Georgia (U.S. state) (1,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
British rule, but did not explicitly retain a sodomy law from the period until 1817, when the first sodomy law in the jurisdiction's 85 years was enforcedLGBTQ rights in Eswatini (2,660 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
only way to repeal the country's sodomy law is to go through the courts. Following the repeal of Botswana's sodomy law in June 2019, an editorial for theLGBTQ rights in Namibia (3,460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the repeal of Botswana's sodomy law by its High Court, First Lady Monica Geingos called for the repeal of Namibia's sodomy law, saying that the "sodomyHistory of the LGBTQ community in Seattle (2,120 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
history of the LGBTQ community in Seattle begins with the Washington Sodomy Law of 1893. In the 1920s and 1930s there were several establishments in Seattle1985 in LGBT rights (679 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Eleventh Circuit in Hardwick v. Bowers strikes down the state of Georgia's sodomy law as unconstitutional. 26 — The United States Court of Appeals for the FifthAbby Rubenfeld (315 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Tennessee's "Homosexual Practices Acts" law, which criminalized sodomy. The sodomy law was overturned in 1996. In 2013, she organized a group of attorneys andLGBTQ history in Texas (1,174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
In 1986, Baker v. Wade resulted in a short-lived blow against Texas' sodomy law. This was ultimately overturned in the same year by Bowers v. HardwickJohn Webb (judge) (600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
Supreme Court was denied in 1975 at the same time that it upheld Virginia's sodomy law in Doe v. Commonwealth's Attorney. State v. Enslin, 214 S.E.2nd 318, appealTimeline of African and diasporic LGBT history (5,740 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
anti-"sodomy" law in all French-held territory, including Saint-Domingue (later Haiti), Martinique, Guadeloupe and French Guiana. Brazil's anti-"sodomy" lawLGBTQ rights in the 18th century (2,624 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Island and Providence Plantations adopted a statute that reworded the sodomy law. 8 July – The Province of New Jersey adopted a statute imposing a dutyJeffrey Wasson (1,339 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
(842 S.W.2d 487) (1992) contributed to the striking down of Kentucky's sodomy law. Wasson was born to Shelby and Rosalee Wasson on February 20, 1962, inMilú Vargas (1,822 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
should prevail for men and women, she was outspoken against the anti-sodomy law passed by the legislature in 1992. María de Lourdes Fátima Vargas EscobarLGBTQ history in Michigan (4,376 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the sodomy law was amended to eliminate the need to prove emission of semen to prove the crime. In 1931, the crimes against nature sodomy law was amendedPortland vice scandal (2,532 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
convictions on legal technicalities. At the time the scandal broke, Oregon's sodomy law merely said, "If any person shall commit sodomy or the crime against nature1992 in LGBT rights (521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Court issues its holding in Kentucky v. Wasson, invalidating the state's sodomy law as unconstitutional. 27 — The Federal Court of Canada orders the CanadianLGBTQ rights in Fiji (2,721 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
named Dhirendra Nadan. The men were tried and jailed under the nation's sodomy law, but the conviction was subsequently overturned in August 2005 by the1982 in LGBT rights (507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
district court Judge Jerry Buchmeyer rules in Baker v. Wade that the sodomy law of the state of Texas violates the right to privacy and due process. 251987 in LGBT rights (527 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Supreme Court refuses to rule on the constitutionality of the state's anti-sodomy law, allowing the law to remain on the books. 11 — The Second National March1973 in LGBT rights (609 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Supreme Court of the United States in Wainwright v. Stone finds that the sodomy law of Florida is not unconstitutionally vague, reversing a Fifth CircuitCarlos T. Mock (1,029 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
America's race and class divide With these words, let us wed Puerto Rican Sodomy Law – An Irony of Gay History We are not equal – the abused second class AmericansThomas E. Horn (679 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
director of that state's ACLU. In that capacity, he challenged New Mexico's sodomy law. After moving to San Francisco in 1976, Horn would eventually go on to1977 in LGBT rights (635 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
employment, housing and public accommodation. 17 — Arkansas reinstates its sodomy law, two years after repealing it. 21 — 750 gays and lesbians and supportersLGBTQ rights in Myanmar (2,242 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Myo Htut, also knows as "Addy Chen" was arrested under the country's sodomy law. Other provisions of the Penal Code can also be used against LGBT people:1995 in LGBT rights (765 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
to same-sex marriage. 2 – A judge in Tennessee rules that the state's sodomy law violates the state constitution. 17 – The Canadian province of BritishMalcom Gregory Scott (4,914 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
politically embattled community. To protest the District of Columbia's sodomy law in December, 1991, Scott and fellow Queer Nation member Stephen SmithSexual orientation and gender identity in the South Korean military (2,438 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Limits Military 'Sodomy' Law". Human Rights Watch. 25 April 2022. Retrieved 26 April 2022. "Dismay as South Korea upholds military 'sodomy law' for fourthArundhati Katju (901 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
that led the Indian Supreme Court to read down Section 377, the Indian sodomy law. She has also litigated other significant LGBT rights cases in India,Guðmundur Sigurjónsson Hofdal (653 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
into having sexual intercourse with him, a violation of the Icelandic sodomy law at the time. Steindór later withdrew the charges, claiming that bootleggersTransgender personnel in the South Korean military (1,708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Korean military". CNN. Retrieved 25 July 2019. "South Korea: Military 'Sodomy' Law Violates Rights". Human Rights Watch. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 31 MaySexual practices between men (2,163 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
Melinda D. (2015). "Decriminalizing Homosexuality: Gaining Rights through Sodomy Law Reform". The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism. RoutledgeLGBTQ rights in the 19th century (1,641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Kertbeny (1824–1882), published anonymously, arguing against a Prussian anti-sodomy law contains the first known use of the word "homosexual" in print. HomosexualityGay-friendly (1,380 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation. In Mauritius, the sodomy law tends to find application with the heterosexual population. The EqualLGBTQ rights in the 19th century (1,641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Kertbeny (1824–1882), published anonymously, arguing against a Prussian anti-sodomy law contains the first known use of the word "homosexual" in print. HomosexualityAndrew Koppelman (419 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
No. 2: 197–287. Koppelman, Andrew (1988). "The Miscegenation Analogy: Sodomy Law as Sex Discrimination", Yale Law Journal, Vol. 98, p. 145. "Andrew M.Equality Mississippi (1,216 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
2003-01-16. Retrieved 2007-10-12. "Supreme Court strikes down Texas sodomy law". CNN. 2003-11-18. Archived from the original on 2008-03-09. RetrievedMichael W. Mosman (1,342 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
for Powell, he was involved in the justice's voting to uphold Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick, writing "The right to privacy calls for the greatestSexual practices between women (4,062 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
Melinda D. (2015). "Decriminalizing Homosexuality: Gaining Rights through Sodomy Law Reform". The Ashgate Research Companion to Lesbian and Gay Activism. RoutledgeCook v. Gates (1,101 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
558 (2003), the Supreme Court case striking down convictions of Texas's sodomy law, to determine the appropriate standard of scrutiny. They held that LawrenceLGBTQ rights in Antigua and Barbuda (969 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Americas LGBTQ rights by country or territory "Caribbean court finds anti-sodomy law unconstitutional". ABC News. Retrieved 6 July 2022. "Sexual Offences Act"Dana Berliner (729 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article
Greenhouse, Linda (March 19, 2003). "Libertarians Join Liberals in Challenging Sodomy Law". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 1, 2025. LeungLGBTQ rights in Sudan (1,254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
of the Criminal Act of 1991. The original wording (translated) of the sodomy law, as amended in 2009, follows: (1)There shall be deemed to commit sodomyMolly house (3,632 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
ecclesiastical courts. From that year however, the country's first civil sodomy law was introduced as An Acte for the punishment of the vice of Buggerie (BuggeryGeorge Moscone (3,001 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
Willie Brown, Moscone managed to pass a bill repealing California's sodomy law. The repeal was signed into law by California Governor Jerry Brown. OnLim Tae-hoon (514 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
human rights bill in 2009 (partially actualized in 2016) Abolition of sodomy law in the military (article 92-6 of the Military Criminal Act) in 2017 (firstStanding (law) (5,022 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article
S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas (finding that state's sodomy law unconstitutional), Virginia's anti-fornication law was also unconstitutionalRecognition of same-sex unions in Namibia (4,737 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
softened its position, suggesting that the cabinet discuss scrapping the sodomy law. Of the other parties represented in the Parliament of Namibia, the ChristianHenry Gerber House (2,520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
meetings, at which they decided to work for the repeal of Illinois's sodomy law. As the organization's secretary, Gerber handled all its official correspondenceLGBTQ history in Hawaii (1,764 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
would criminalize vagrancy, lewdness and undefined crimes. An explicit sodomy law was enacted in 1850, punishing offenders with a fine of up to $1,000 andJudeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration (548 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
majority opinion in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down that state's anti-sodomy law. Kennedy was accused of relying on "Marxist, Leninist, Satanic principlesLGBTQ rights in Botswana (2,828 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
argued that the court was mistaken in its conclusion in overturning the sodomy law, saying, "I am of the view that the High Court erred in arriving at thisGriswold v. Connecticut (3,747 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
protected as privacy rights. Lawrence v. Texas (2003) struck down a Texas sodomy law that prohibited certain forms of intimate sexual contact between membersLGBTQ rights in Panama (2,476 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
the last Spanish-speaking country in the Americas to overturn its anti-sodomy law. The age of consent is equal at 18. Homosexuality was declassified asRazor Girl (2,418 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
landmark case of Lawrence v. Texas, in which the majority found a Texas anti-sodomy law to be unconstitutional. Whether Irv and his partner intend this to beLGBTQ history in India (11,110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article
The law had a larger impact on social values than legal ones. The anti-sodomy law in Britain and, in turn, India, was inspired by the 'purity campaign'