Amicus Queeriae

Amicus Queeriae


Episode 3: Legally Gay

July 22, 2021

In this episode, we trace the transformation of the Supreme Court's thinking on the criminalization of being gay from Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986) to Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003). The seeds of change were planted in historical cases c