Flagrant conduct : the story of Lawrence v. Texas : how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans / Dale Carpenter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carpenter, Dale, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawrence, John Geddes--Trials, litigation, etc.

Lawrence, John Geddes.

Homosexuality--Law and legislation.

Trials (Sodomy).

Texas--Trials, litigation, etc.

Texas.

Trials (Sodomy)--Texas.

Homosexuality--Law and legislation--Texas--Criminal provisions.

Homosexuality.

Gay people--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Gay people.

Gay people--Legal status, laws, etc.

United States.

Homosexuality--Law and legislation--Criminal provisions.

Trials.

Genre:

Nonfiction.

Trial and arbitral proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 345 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

regular print

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2012]

Summary:

Provides a detailed legal history and examines the motives of all players involved with the landmark Supreme Court gay rights case that protected consenting adults' rights, regardless of sexual preference, in the bedroom.

Contents:

pt. 1. Before the arrests : A crime of deep malignity ; The city and the cause ; The defendants and the troublemaker ; The department and the deputies

pt. 2. The arrests : The intrusion ; Uncivil disobedience ; A probable explanation for an improbable case ; The homosexual status law

pt. 3. After the arrests : From the jail to the bar ; From the gay bar to the bar ; Into the Texas courts ; The constitutional case takes shape ; The politics of law ; The constitutional mainstream ; Mismatch at the Supreme Court ; Respect for their private lives

Sweet land of liberty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-327) and index.

Lambda Literary Awards - LGBT Non-Fiction, Winner, 2013

ISBN:

0393062082

9780393062083

OCLC:

761383909

Publisher Number:

40020582363