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• Craig to Make Constitutional Argument - by The Associated Press in 365Gay.com, October 26, 2007
  Idaho Sen. Larry Craig will argue before an appeals court that Minnesota's disorderly conduct law is unconstitutional as it applies to his conviction in a bathroom sex sting, according to a new court filing.
• Gay Tolerance in U.S. Reaching Record Marks - The Christian Post, May 29, 2007
  Pro-gay rights attitudes have reached high points this year, according to a new poll, with more Americans expressing tolerance. 59 percent of Americans believe homosexual relations should be legal.
• Alabama Sex-Toy Ban Goes to Supreme Court - The Advocate, May 15, 2007
  An adult-store owner asks the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out Alabama's ban on selling sex toys as an unconstitutional intrusion into the bedroom.
• Jerry Falwell Dies at 73 - The Advocate, May 15, 2007
  The implacable anti-gay and religious right kingpin dies after being found unconscious in his study; a colleague cites his "history of heart challenges."
• Many Teens Don't Know the Law About Sex - By The Associated Press in the New York Times, October 29, 2007 
  ATLANTA (AP) -- The tough Georgia law that sent Genarlow Wilson to prison for having oral sex with a fellow teenager has been watered down. But in Georgia -- and in many other states -- it's still a crime for teenagers to have sex, even if they're close in age.
• Clinton, Obama Dodge GI Sodomy - GayCityNews, April 12, 2007
  Only four of the 17 presidential hopefuls - Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel - are willing to stand up for the right of gay military personnel to privacy in their sexual behavior.
• Gay, Lesbian Group Honors Controversial Jamestown Figure - The Virginian-Pilot, March 12, 2007
  Records don't show whether Richard Cornish felt like a martyr almost 400 years ago as he stood on a Jamestown gallows with a rope around his neck. But he was adopted as one by the William and Mary Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association. GALA and a number of activists and historians recognize Cornish as the first man prosecuted and executed for homosexuality in the British North American colonies.
• 'Lawrence' Fails to Open Floodgates to Unfettered Sexual Freedom - Law.com, March 5, 2007
  The 11th Circuit ruled, "we find that public morality survives as a rational basis for legislation even after Lawrence, and we find that in this case the State's interest in the preservation of public morality remains a rational basis for the challenged statute."
• Gerald Ford Supported Gays and the End of Sodomy Laws - The Advocate, December 28, 2006
• Lawmakers Blast Emirates Over Jailing Gays - PlanetOut.com, March 17, 2006
• U.S. Legislators Press Rice on UN Vote Against Gays - Reuters, February 8, 2006
• Bush Admin Equates Gay Rights Groups with Pedophilia - 365Gay.com (Associated Press), February 4, 2005
• Frank Blasts Condi's UN Gay Position - 365Gay.com, February 2, 2005
• United Nations: US Aligned With Iran in Anti-Gay Vote - Reuters (Human Rights Watch), January 25, 2006
• U.S. Nixes Gay Inclusion At UN - 365Gay.com, January 24, 2006
• Jail Condoms Draw Fire in U.S., Namibia - Gay.com, January 9, 2006
• Fed Appeals Court Asylum Outrage - Gay City News, December 22, 2005
• Professional Boxers Unite to Seek Presidential Pardon for Jack Johnson - Joint Association of Boxers, March 2, 2005
• Justice Department to Appeal Obscenity Case Dismissal - Florida Baptist Witness, February 24, 2005
• Supreme Court Declines to Review Ban on Sale of Sex Toys - The Advocate, February 23, 2005
• Supreme Court Lets Sex Toy Ban Stay - 365Gay.com, February 22, 2005
• Activists Share New Perspectives - The Quad, February 21, 2005
• Bush Renominates Embattled Judges - PlanetOut, February 16, 2005
• Antigay Pryor Renominated for Judicial Bench - The Advocate, February 16, 2005
• William Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown Maintain Radical Records - National Stonewall Democrats, February 15, 2005
• Bush Renominates Homophobic Judge - 365Gay.com, February 15, 2005
• HRC Urges Senate Not to Confirm Anti-Fairness Judicial Nominee William Pryor - Human Right Campaign, February 14, 2005
• One Year Later: Pryor’s Record on 11th Circuit - Law.com, February 11, 2005
• Reporter Quits Over Ties to Gay Sex Sites - PlanetOut, February 10, 2005
• Mystery Anti-Gay ‘Journalist’ Goes Underground - 365Gay.com, February 10, 2005
• Online Reporter Quits After Liberals’ Expose - Washington Post, February 10, 2005
• A Federal Judge Dismisses an Obscenity Prosecution on Privacy Grounds - FindLaw, January 31, 2005
• Memorabilia from Jack Johnson’s Era Packs Quite a Punch - San Francisco Chronicle, January 31, 2005
• Jackson Seeks Posthumous Pardon for Boxer Johnson - Chicago Tribune, January 30, 2005
• Message Regarding NBC’s “The West Wing” - Assembly of Turkish American Associations, January 28, 2005
• Visitors Drawn to Jack Johnson’s Grave in Chicago - Chicago Tribune, January 25, 2005
• Pardoning Jack Johnson - Alternet.org, January 19, 2005
• Jack Johnson Film Goes a Round Against Racism - Boston Herald, January 16, 2005
• The Great Jack Johnson - BoxingScene.com, January15, 2005
• Gay Nigerian Detained 11 Months Wins US Asylum - December 6, 2004
• The Culture Wars (Kinsey) - December 6, 2004
• Robertson: Gays And Lesbians Are “Self-Absorbed Hedonists ... That Want to Impose Their Particular Sexuality on the Rest of America” - December 2, 2004
• Alfred Kinsey, and Judith Reisman's Dirty Little Mind - November 2004
• Kinsey Lives! - November 23, 2004
• Repeat Offender (Kinsey) - November 19-25, 2004
• The Kinsey Effect - November 15, 2004
• Esteemed Committee Spearheads Boxer Jack Johnson Presedential Pardon Effort; Praises Senate Resolution - October 7, 2004
• Judges Have too Much Power in Social Issues Scalia Says - September 29, 2004
• Scalia Describes ‘Dangerous’ Trend - The Harvard Crimson, September 29, 2004
• ‘Politics Trumps Science’ at Psychological Association, Critic Says - August 4, 2004
• Jack Johnson Pardon Brief - July 30, 2004
• Few Laws Help Gays in Cases of Domestic Violence - July 21, 2004
• Court Questions Bush’s Appointment of Antigay Judge - July 21, 2004
• Appeals Court Questions Bush Anti-Gay Judicial Appointment - July 20, 2004
• Democrats Ready to Vote on Marriage - July 10, 2004 [President Bush reverses his long held position on sodomy laws while advocating a constitutional amendment to enshrine discrimination in the U.S. Constitution.] 
• Sexual Freedom Activists Target ‘Archaic, Unjust’ Sex Laws - June 1, 2004
• Old Anti-Gay Sex Laws Remain on the Books in Many States - May 31, 2004
• Suit Filed by Ex-Madonna Beau Rejected - May 29, 2004
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and Woodhull Freedom Foundation Announce Joint Effort Study of U.S. Sex Laws - May 28, 2004
• A Family Business: For the Rev. Lou Sheldon and His Daughter, Marriage Means Only One Thing - May 20, 2004
• Acceptance of Gays on Rise, Polls Show - March 30, 2004
• Reports of Anti-Gay Violence Increase - March 18, 2004
• HRC Strongly Condemns Recess Appointment of William Pryor to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit - February 20, 2004
• Bypasses Senate—Bush Places Anti-Gay on Bench - February 20, 2004
• Senate Begins Work on Anti-Gay Amendment - February 7, 2004
• Cornyn Blasts Gay Marriage Ruling, Plans Hearings - February 6, 2004
• History Book Records U.S. Government’s Persecution of Gays - December 31, 2003
• Historian David K. Johnson: Exposes the U.S. Government’s Anti-Gay Crusades - December 31, 2003
• Annals of Homosexuality: From Greek to Grim to Gay - December 13, 2003
• The Lavender Scare - November 1, 2003
• Scalia Falsely Portrayed as Scoffer, Group Says - October 27, 2003
• Conservative Supreme Court Justice Ridicules Sodomy Ruling - October 25, 2003
• DNC Chairman McAuliffe Statement on Justice Scalia’s Speech at the ISI - October 24, 2003
• Justice Mocks Liberal Colleagues, Recent Decision on Sodomy Laws - October 24, 2003
• Scalia Skewers Fellow Supremes - October 24, 2003
• Scalia Ridicules Court’s Sodomy Decision - October 24, 2003
• Scalia Derides High Court’s Gay Sex Ruling - October 24, 2003
• Scalia Ridicules Court’s Gay Sex Ruling - October 23, 2003
• Senate Confirms Mosman - September 27, 2003
• HRC Decries Advancement of Pryor Nomination to Senate Vote - July 25, 2003
• National Stonewall Democrats Decries Republican Advancement of Anti-Gay Nominee - July 23, 2003
• Santorum’s GQ Comments Provoke More Controversy - July 23, 2003
• Court’s Opinion on Gay Rights Reflects Trends - July 18, 2003
• Gay in the USA - July 15, 2003
• What Gay Studies Taught the Court - July 13, 2003
• Debate on Gay Unions Splits Along Generations - July 7, 2003
• Adversaries on Gay Rights Vow State-by-State Fight - July 6, 2003
• Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Draws Wide Disapproval - July 5, 2003
• Pryor Faces Angry Democratic Committee - The Data Lounge, June 13, 2003
• Another Bush Judicial Nominee Under Fire - The Data Lounge, June 11, 2003
• Log Cabin Republicans Oppose Nomination of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor to U.S. Court of Appeals - Log Cabin Republicans, June 9, 2003
• Six out of 10 Americans Say Homosexual Relations Should Be Recognized as Legal - Gallup News Service, May 15, 2003
• Majority of Americans Believe Homosexuality Should Not Be Illegal, Support Partner Rights: Gallup Poll - 365Gay.com, May 15, 2003
• Dems Tout Stances on Gays - Raleigh News & Observer, May 12, 2003
• Shurtleff Stands Behind His Support of Antisodomy Law - Salt Lake Tribune, May 3, 2003
• Pro-Gay Senator Backs Judicial Nominee - The Advocate, May 2, 2003
• Federal Judicial Candidate Says He’s Not Antigay - The Advocate, April 29, 2003
• Mosman Meets with Gay Rights Supporters - The Oregonian, April 26, 2003
• Three Bush Judicial Nominees Attacked on Gay Record - Houston Voice, April 25, 2003
• Smith’s Pick Stirs Gay-Rights Controversy - The Oregonian, April 21, 2003
• Bush Nominee Has Antigay History - Advocate, April 11, 2003
• A ‘Safe Sex’ Guide in House Gym Causes Embarrassment - The Hill, April 2, 2003
• Disorder in the Courts - Frontiers Newsmagazine, March 14, 2003
• Returning Home Would Mean Death, Says Iranian Student - Gay People’s Chronicle, February 28, 2003
• Students Getting More Gay-Friendly - January 31, 2003
• Lambda Legal to Host Town Halls in 13 States - January 11, 2003
• Not Just About Sex - December 16, 2002
• Rental Discrimination Still a Fact of Gay Life - December 12, 2002
• Supreme Court to Revisit Sodomy Laws - December 8, 2002
• Can the Supreme Court Change Its Mind? - December 5, 2002
• Perry Calls Sodomy Law ‘Appropriate’ - December 4, 2002
• Black Robes Don’t Make the Justice, but the Rest of His Closet Just Might - December 4, 2002
• Court to Hear Texas Case on Gay Rights - December 3, 2002
• Top Court to Address Sodomy - December 3, 2002
• Justices to Reconsider Ruling Against Sex Between Gays - December 3, 2002
• Court to Weigh Texas’ Ban on Gay Sodomy - December 3, 2002
• Justices to Decide Same-Sex Sodomy - December 3, 2002
• Justices Take Gay-Rights Case - December 3, 2002
• Sodomy Case to be Heard by Top Court - December 3, 2002
• Supreme Court Nears Momentous Decision - December 2, 2002
• Supreme Court to Hear Sodomy Case - December 2, 2002
• Supreme Court Will Hear Sodomy Case - December 2, 2002
• Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Sodomy Case - December 2, 2002
• Supreme Court to Decide Texas Sodomy Law - December 2, 2002
• HRC Applauds Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Texas Sodomy Case - December 2, 2002
• Equality Virginia Applauds Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Texas Sodomy Case - December 2, 2002
• US Supreme Court Takes Up Gay Sex Challenge - November 30, 2002
• High Court Poised to Hear 2 Equal Protection Cases - November 29, 2002
• The Second Annual Sodomy Challenge is Underway - September 4, 2002
• High Court May Hear Sodomy Case - July 16, 2002
• U.S. Supreme Court Asked to Review Constitutionality of Texas "Homosexual Conduct" Law - July 16, 2002
• Group Hopes Texas Sodomy Case Heard - July 16, 2002
• Gay Sex Law Appealed to U.S. High Court - July 16, 2002
• Sodomy Wars Continue in the Court - April, 2002
• The Dark Legacy of Justice White - April 24, 2002
• Supreme Court Jurist Was a Star on and Off the Bench - April 16, 2002
• Former Supreme Court Justice Byron White Dies - April 15, 2002
• Former Justice White Dies at 84 - April 15, 2002
• Sex-Crime Panic: Could It Happen Today? - January 21, 2002
• NCSF Incident Response Statistics for a One Year Period - January 7, 2002
• Human Rights Campaign Awards $104,000 in Equality Funds to State Organizations - October 31, 2001
• VOA Head: Homosexuality ‘Morally Disordered’ - October 12, 2001
• The Sodomy Challenge - October 9, 2001
• Court Refuses Discrimination Case - October 9, 2001
• Congressmen Condemn Egypt - August 7, 2001
• Gays Seeking Asylum Find Familiar Prejudices in U.S. - August 2, 2001
• Lesbian Journalists: Supreme Court, News Media Ignore Gays’ Rights - July 30, 2001
• Activists Hope to Reverse Anti-Gay Ruling - July 30, 2001
• Bowers v. Hardwick at 15 - July 12, 2001
• Gay Abuse in Uganda Gets U.S. Attention - July 10, 2001
• New Justices Will Strongly Affect Gay Americans - June 20, 2001
• Books: Homosexuality and the High Court - June 10, 2001
• U.S. Supreme Court Evolution Stirs Hope - June 4, 2001
• American Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Continue to Become More Tolerant - Gallup News Service, June 4, 2001
• More Sodomy Laws on the Way Out - May 31, 2001
• Gay-Rights Opponents Seek, and in Some Cases Find, Their Way into Proxies - May 15, 2001
• Pro-Gay Trend Endures - March 9, 2001
• Guidelines Questioned Security Clearance Query Raises Eyebrows - May 4, 2001
• Looking Inward, Freshmen Care Less About Politics and More About Money (excerpt) - January 26, 2001
• New Bills in NC, MS, TX, AZ - January 12, 2001
• Those Naughty Pilgrims - November 2000
• Parties Shift in Legislatures - November 17, 2000
• Gays Evoke Violent Reactions in US - October 15, 2000
• 2000 Presidential Candidates Positions on Sodomy Laws - September 17, 2000
• Moonies, Mantras — and Mary - August 4, 2000
• Long-Time Litigator in Lesbian, Gay Civil Rights Leaves Lambda Legal Defense - June 22, 2000
• Louisiana May Be Latest in ‘Overwhelming Trend’ of State Courts Finding Sodomy Laws Unconstitutional - April 10, 2000
• Statehouse Sweep: Pro-Gay Bills Lead in States Trend Continues from 1999 - March 24, 2000
• Letter: Making the Law Review - February 25, 2000
• In the Biblical Sense - November 29, 1999
• Making Love Legal - March 1999
• Scene of the crime; laws against gay sex can block everything we want - October 27, 1998
• Sodom and Gomorrah: Where it all began - October 27, 1998
• Lewis F. Powell Jr., Who Became the Quiet Centrist of the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 90 - August 26, 1998
• Ex-Supreme Court Justice Powell Dies - August 25, 1998
• 'Unnatural' Sex Still Gets Prosecuted - April 19, 1998
• Letter: Leftover laws hurt - April 19, 1998
• An ever-shifting landscape - February 13, 1998
• States Ease Registration Laws That Swept Up Gays - November 26, 1997
• Former Justice Powell Angers Gays with Hardwick Flip-Flop - November 2, 1990
• Powell Regrets Backing Sodomy Law - October 26, 1990
• Homosexuals Get Short Shrift from the Supreme Court, But an Expert Says History Tells a Different Tale - July 21, 1986
• Knocking on the Bedroom Door - July 14, 1986
• Sick No More - December 16, 1973
• Doctors Support Sodomy Law Repeal - January 1970

Bowers v. Hardwick

Lawrence v. State of Texas

Santorum

US Military

• Clinton, Obama Dodge GI Sodomy - GayCityNews, April 12, 2007
  Only four of the 17 presidential hopefuls - Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Dennis Kucinich, and Mike Gravel - are willing to stand up for the right of gay military personnel to privacy in their sexual behavior.
• Would Pace Call Turing "Immoral"? - The Advocate, March 16, 2007
• Supreme Court Already Decided DADT Lesbian Major's Lawyers Tell Judge - 365Gay.com, July 1, 2006
  Lawyers for Air Force Reserve Maj. Margaret Witt, facing discharge from the military after it was discovered she is a lesbian, have told a federal judge that Don't Ask, Don't Tell cannot be enforced because of the Supreme Court ruling that overturned state sodomy laws.
• Army Charges 7 in Gay Sex-Site Case - PlanetOut.com, February 24, 2006
• Post-Lawrence, Military Ban Upheld - Gay City News, November 17, 2005
• Service Members Challenge “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Policy - The Advocate, July 9, 2005
• Boston Court Hears Oral Arguments in ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Challenge - Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, July 8, 2005
• Government Seeks Dismissal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Challenge - Boston Globe, July 8, 2005
• Military Gay Ban Justified Federal Judge Told - 365Gay.com, July 8, 2005
• Military’s Gay Ban Heads to Court - 365Gay.com, July 7, 2005
• Hetero Sodomy Conviction Upheld - Gay City News, March 10, 2005
• Pentagon Wants Gay Policy Suit Thrown Out - PlanetOut Network, February 8, 2005
• Administration Wants Gay Military Suit Tossed - 365Gay.com, February 7, 2005
• ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ - Houston Chronicle, February 6, 2005
• Supremes Decline to Hear Gay Sex Case - The Associated Press, January 19, 2005
• Supreme Court Rejects Military Sodomy Case - The Advocate, January 19, 2005
• Supreme Court Declines Gay Soldier’s Case - 365Gay.com, January 18, 2005
• Military Sodomy Ruling Offers Hope - Gay City News, December 16, 2004
• Military Appeals Court Reverses Heterosexual Sodomy Conviction - December 13, 2004
• Legal Scholars Assess Impact of Reversal of Military Sodomy Conviction - December 10, 2004
• Waging war on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ - December 9, 2004
• Military Appeals Court Overturns Sodomy Conviction - December 9, 2004
• Army Appeals Court Overturns Sodomy Conviction - December 8, 2004
• Military Court Overturns Sodomy Law - December 8, 2004
• Some Believe Ruling Undercuts ‘Don’t Ask’ - December 8, 2004
• Army Ruling Deals Blow to Sodomy Law - December 8, 2004
• Expelled Gay Soldiers Sue Armed Services - December 7, 2004
• Servicemembers Legal Defense Network Files Constitutional Challenge to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” - December 6, 2004
• Gay Vets Sue for Reinstatement - December 6, 2004
• Ousted Gays Sue Military to Be Reinstated - December 6, 2004
• Gay Veterans of War on Terrorism Sue Pentagon for Reinstatement - December 6, 2004
• Pentagon Policy on Gays Is Challenged - December 6, 2004
• Military’s Highest Court Declines to Strike Down Sodomy Statute - August 25, 2004
• Military High Court Upholds Sodomy Ban - August 25, 2004
• Human Rights Campaign Statement on Military High Court Ruling - August 24, 2004
• Military Court Skirts Gay Sex Law - August 23, 2004
• SLDN: Military’s Highest Court Declines to Strike Down Sodomy Statute; Court Leaves Open Question of Constitutionality Article 125 - August 23, 2004
• Ex-Officers: Military’s Gay Policy Outdated - February 16, 2004
• Military Secrets - January 12, 2004
• Top Military Court Hears Case Against Sodomy Ban - October 20, 2003
• Military Anti Sodomy Law Under Review - October 8, 2003
• Military’s Highest Court Hears Oral Arguments in Historic Case Challenging Consensual Sodomy Ban - October 7, 2003
• Military’s Sodomy Ban Challenged - October 6, 2003
• SLDN, ACLU and Lambda Legal Urge Military’s Highest Court to Strike Down Law Banning Consensual Sodomy - October 2, 2003
• Remove Sodomy From Military Law Gay Advocates Urge - October 2, 2003
• Groups Challenge Military’s Sodomy Ban - October 2, 2003
• Sodomy Ruling Brings Military Challenges - August 5, 2003
• Sodomy Ruling Spurs Challenges To Military’s Policy on Gays - August 4, 2003
• The Gay-Rights Movement Has Seized the Nation’s Attention and Agenda. Can It Hold Them? - August 3, 2003
• Lawsuit Challenges Military’s Gay Policy - July 20, 2003
• Discharged Gay Vet Hopes Supreme Court Decision Bolsters Case Against Army - July 18, 2003
• Lawrence Decision Launches Military ‘Gay’ Ban Challenges - July 16, 2003
• Judicial Deference to Military May Affect Gay Rights, War on Terror - July 15, 2003
• Sodomy Ruling May Affect Military - July 14, 2003
• Gay Man, Citing Supreme Court Ruling, Fights ‘97 Army Discharge - July 9, 2003
• Military's Gay Ban Challenged in Wake of Sodomy Ruling - July 9, 2003
• Viet Vet Files ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ Constitutional Challenge Based on Sodomy Ruling - July 8, 2003
• Vietnam Veteran Files Constitutional Challenge To “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” & Federal Sodomy Statute - July 8, 2003
• ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Faces Challenge - July 7, 2003
• Decorated Veteran Challenges Army Dismissal - July 6, 2003
• Military Matters Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Will It Fall? - July 2, 2003
• Supreme Court Sodomy Decision Implicates Federal Sodomy Statute & "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" - June 26, 2003
• Uniform Discrimination: The "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" Policy of the U.S. Military - January 28, 2003
• One Year After Panel Recommends Repeal of Military Sodomy Statute, Pentagon & Congress Fail to Take Action - June 3, 2002
• Courage Under Fire - November 27, 2001
• Changes In Uniform Code of Military Justice Loom - June 14, 2001
• Military Panel: Repeal Code’s Sodomy Clause - June 8, 2001
• SLDN Hails Cox Commission Report on Military’s Sodomy Statute - June 2-4, 2001
• Pentagon: Discharge of Gays Rose - June 1, 2001
• US Military Told to Drop Sodomy - May 31, 2001
• Cox Commission Recommends Repeal of Military Sodomy Statute - May 30, 2001
• Military Panel Rejects Sodomy Law - May 30, 2001
• Sodomy Still Illegal in US Military - March 24, 2001
• Military Legal Aid Group Urges Repeal of Sodomy Statute - Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, March 23, 2001
• Bill Bradley Wows Crowd at New York Gay Community Center - February 29, 2000
• Appeals Court Throws Out Sodomy Conviction - October 26, 1998
• Captain's Sodomy Appeal Targets Commander - May 25, 1998
• Navy Targets Sailor's Use of `Gay' on AOL Case Raises Issue of Online Privacy Protection - Washington Post, January 12, 1998
• Representative Barney Frank Calls For Decriminalization of Consensual Sex in The Military - June 18, 1997

Alabama

• Alabama Sex-Toy Ban Goes to Supreme Court - The Advocate, May 15, 2007
  An adult-store owner asks the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out Alabama's ban on selling sex toys as an unconstitutional intrusion into the bedroom.
• Alabama Set to Ban Sex Toys - Scripps Howard News Service, February 25, 2005
• Supreme Court Declines to Review Ban on Sale of Sex Toys - The Advocate, February 23, 2005
• Supreme Court Lets Sex Toy Ban Stay - 365Gay.com, February 22, 2005
• Gay Book Ban Goal of State Lawmaker - December 1, 2004
• Is It Time for a Rewrite? - October 16, 2004
• 11th Circuit Nixes Sex Toys, Sex Rights - July 29, 2004
• Gay Sex Toys Banned in Alabama - July 29, 2004
• Court OKs Alabama Ban on Sale of Sex Toys - July 28, 2004
• Two States with Universal Sodomy Laws Consider High Court Ruling - The Advocate, June 27, 2003
• Alabama Gay Group Praises Court Ruling on Sodomy Law - June 26, 2003
• Outspoken Alabama Chief Justice Meets with Gay Minister - Washington Blade, February 28, 2003
• Court Strikes Down Alabama Sex Toy Ban - Associated Press, October 11, 2002
• Alabama Sex Law Challenged - May 16, 2002
• Suit Challenges Alabama Sexual Misconduct Law - May 15, 2002
• Judge Blasted by Gay Rights Group - April 11, 2002
• Judicial Inquiry Commission Dismisses Complaints Against Moore - April 8, 2002
• Lesbian Mother in Alabama Custody Case Mulls Appeal - March 28, 2002
• Roy Moore Speaks Out on Gays - March 25, 2002
• Counter-Protestors Outnumber Protesters from Anti-Gay Group - March 25, 2002
• Birmingham City Council Denounces Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore - March 22, 2002
• Judicial Panel Rejects Bias Complaint Against Alabama Justice Who Called Homosexuality ‘Inherent Evil’! - March 21, 2002
• Hundreds Rally to Call for Resignation of Roy Moore - March 9, 2002
• Bill Says No Alabama Residents Are Inherently Evil - March 5, 2002
• Alabama Judge Defends Anti-Gay Remarks - March 4, 2002
• Alabama Senate Committee Passes Hate Crime Expansion Measure - March 1, 2002
• Moore’s Attorney Says Group Seeking to Remove Chief Justice - March 1, 2002
• Ruling or Stump Speech? - February 25, 2002
• Gays, Others Rally for Less of Moore - February 23, 2002
• Chief Justice Applauded, Condemned - February 23, 2002
• NGLTF Renews Call for Removal of Alabama Official: "Proven He Is Unfit to Serve, He Should Be Removed" - February 22, 2002
• Alabama’s Chief Justice Declares Homosexuality ‘A Sin,’ Bases Custody Ruling Partly on Bible - February 20, 2002
• Homosexuality Secondary in Custody Ruling - February 20, 2002
• Chief Justice Says Homosexuals Unfit as Parents - February 15, 2002
• Court Overturns Alabama Sex Toy Ruling - October 14, 2000
• Alabama’s Sex Toy Ban Is Overturned - March 29, 1999
• More Than 100 Gather To Discuss Equality For Homosexuals - March 22, 1999
• Alabama Court Removes Child from Lesbian Mother - June 26, 1998

Alaska

• Letter: South Africa Leads Way - October 13, 1998

Arkansas

• Conservative Arkansas Governor Supports Sodomy Ruling - July 4, 2003
• ‘77 Arkansas Sodomy Law Struck Down - July 12-18, 2002
• Another Lambda Legal Victory—Arkansas Supreme Court Decision Strikes Down State’s Sodomy Law - July 9, 2002
• Arkansas High Court Strikes Sodomy Law - July 8, 2002
• Court Strikes Down Same-Sex Law - July 5, 2002
• State, Gays Argue Over Sodomy Law - June 28, 2002
• Lawsuit Challenges Arkansas Sodomy Law - June 28, 2002
• Arkansas Official Argues for Sodomy Law - November 14, 2001
• Sodomy Appeal Reaches Arkansas High Court - November 2, 2001
• Arkansans Supreme Court Hears Gay Sex Challenge - October 31, 2001
• Arkansas Sodomy Law Struck Down - March 26, 2001
• Court Strikes Down Arkansas Sodomy Law - March 24-26, 2001
• Major Victory for GLBT Community: Arkansas Court Strikes Down Sodomy Law - March 23, 2001
• Sodomy Law Said Unconstitutional - March 23, 2001
• Arkansas Judge Rules Anti-Sodomy Law Unconstitutional - March 23, 2001
• Arkansas Court Strikes Down Anti-Gay Sodomy Law - March 23, 2001
• Attorneys Ask Judge to End Suit - January 30, 2001
• Court Mulls Arkansas Sodomy Law - January 30, 2001
• Arkansas Court to Hear Argument Against Anti-Gay Sodomy Law - January 23, 2001
• Arkansas Challenge to Sodomy Statute Advances - December 11, 2000
• Fight Against State Sodomy Law Set for Pulaski County Hearing - November 28, 2000
• Court Says Arkansas Sodomy Law Challenge May Proceed - February 11, 2000
• New York Gay Rights Group Back In Court To Topple Arkansas Sodomy Law - November 2, 1999
• Letter: Laws Unfairly Enforced - September 13, 1999
• Arkansas Court Clears Way For Sodomy Law Challenge - June 25, 1999
• Arkansas Supreme Court Gives Green Light to Sodomy Challenge - June 24, 1999
• Arkansas Anti-Sodomy Law Challenge Should Go Forward, Lawyer Says - May 14, 1999
• Arkansas Sodomy Law Faces State's Highest Court - May 11, 1999
• Challenge to Arkansas Sodomy Law Reaches State's Highest Court - May 10, 1999
• Letter: We Must Help Each Other - April 11, 1999
• Task Force Denounces Arkansas Foster Care Ban - January 7, 1999
• 2 Boys Caught Having Sex At Alexander Youth Center - September 11, 1998
• Foster-Care Ban Still Sought For Gays But Not Singles - August 26, 1998
• Lesbians And Gays Sue Arkansas - August 1998
• Arkansas Judge Refuses To Dismiss Suit Challenging Gay Sodomy Law - June 24, 1998
• Judge refuses to nix lawsuit challenging sodomy law - June 24, 1998
• Arkansas sodomy challenge to proceed - June 23, 1998
• Arkansas law against homosexual acts challenged in court - May 31, 1998
• Attorney general candidates offer views - May 25, 1998
• GLAAD Talks with Arkansas Democrat-Gazette - March 20, 1998
• GLAADAlert Follow-Up: Arkansas Paper Publishes More Names - February 27, 1998
• Arkansas Paper Covers Up Suicide - February 20, 1998
• Arkansas to file arguments in support of law - February 17, 1998
• Lawsuit challenges Arkansas sodomy law - February 13, 1998
• Suicide in Little Rock - February 6, 1998
• Arkansas Sodomy Law Challenged - February 2, 1998
• Arkansas sued to repeal sodomy law - January 29, 1998
• LLDEF Targets AR Law - January 28, 1998
• Lambda, Arkansas Activists To Announce Challenge - January 28, 1998

Arizona

• Phoenix Sex Club Owner Strikes Out on Privacy Appeal - Leonard Link, December 25, 2006
  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has rejected an attempt by the corporate owner of a gay sex club in Phoenix, Arizona, to assert the privacy rights of its patrons in an effort to invalidate a city law that may be used to shut down the club. Ruling on December 22 in Fleck and Associates v. Phoenix, 2006 WL 3755201, court held that corporations do not themselves have privacy rights, and that the club cannot bring suit to vindicate the privacy rights of its "members."
• Phoenix Sexual Liberty Activists Need Your Help - December 31, 2003
• ‘Razing’ Arizona - July 22, 2003
• Will Court Case Help Marriage Lawsuit for Ariz. Gay Couple? - July 16, 2003
• Ban on Phoenix Swing Clubs - National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, September 27, 2002
• Arizona Lifts Sodomy Ban - May 11, 2001
• Arizona Governor Signs Sodomy Repeal - May 10, 2001
• Opponents Seek to Put Sex-Laws Repeal to Voters - May 9, 2001
• Gov. Hull’s Letter - May 9, 2001
• Hull Signs Repeal of Sex Laws - May 9, 2001
• Arizona Repeals Sodomy Laws - May 9, 2001
• Arizona Governor Signs Sodomy Repeal Into Law - May 9, 2001
• Arizona Gov. Hull Signs Repeal of Archaic Sex Laws - May 8, 2001
• Arizona Governor Flooded with Emails on Sodomy Repeal - May 8, 2001
• Arizona Senate Passes Rights Bills - May 1, 2001
• Senate Approves Repeal of Sex Laws - May 1, 2001
• Uphold Morality in Arizona! - April 24, 2001
• Letter: Stirring Up Interest - April 9, 2001
• Arizona Lawmakers Wrangle Over Sodomy Repeal - March 29, 2001
• Rights Bills Wobbly or Dead - March 25, 2001
• House Backs Repeal of Sexual Laws - March 21, 2001
• Legislative briefs (excerpt) ...Sex Laws - March 21, 2001
• Progress on Arizona ENDA and Sodomy Laws - March 20, 2001
• Junior High Kids Get Short Course in State’s Archaic Sex Laws (excerpted) - March 18, 2001
• Arizona Gay Bills on Shaky Ground - March 15, 2001
• Arizona Sodomy Repeal Gets Initial OK - March 15, 2001
• Arizona Panel OKs Sodomy Repeal - February 13, 2001
• Parties Shift in Legislatures - November 17, 2000
• Arizona Senate Retains Archaic Laws - March 30, 2000
• Letter: PFLAG Mom Says Repeal the Law - March 1, 2000
• Arizona Legislative Dramatics - February 9, 2000
• Letter: Littleton Problem Is Deeper Than Gun Control Issue - May 4, 1999
• Dusting the Books - April 30, 1998
• Arizona House Nixes Sodomy Repeal - April 29, 1998
• Arizona Gay Reps Target Sodomy Law - April 26, 1998
• Letter: Undesirable lifestyle - April 22, 1998
• Letter: Eradicate odious laws - February 15, 1998
• Oro Valley lawmaker wants to pull `dumb' sex laws - February 5, 1998

California

• California Oral Sex Law Overturned - 365Gay.com (The Associated Press), March 7, 2006
• Gays Overjoyed, Conservatives Despair Over Sodomy Ruling - San Jose Mercury News, June 26, 2003
• Times, and Law They Are a Changin’ - January 2, 2002
• Gays Call Police Sting Discriminatory - November 30, 2000
• ACLU Win in Sex Offender Law - November 12, 1997

Colorado

• Persecution of Pink Triangles - Rocky Mountain Collegian, March 4, 2005
• Colorado Gay Rights Activists Support Ruling on Gay Sex - Associated Press, June 26, 2003

Connecticut

• Connecticut Law on Sexual Assault Struck Down for Allowing Gay Sex - The Advocate, April 7, 2006
• Exhibit Explores Gay History at Yale - February 8, 2004
• Suicide Prompts Protests About Police Raid - February 1, 2002
• Unsettling Result of Heavy Handed Police, Publicity - January 28, 2002

District of Columbia

• The First Person to Tell America: 'Gay Is Good' - Gay People's Chronicle, April 27, 2007
  When the Army fired Frank Kameny 50 years ago, he began an era.
• Obituary: Two-Time Ward 3 Candidate Ruth Dixon - August 12, 2004
• ACLU Plans a New Suit to Overturn the Sodomy Law - mid-July 1972
• Crime (?) and Justice (?) - November 1971
• Regency Health Club Owner Convicted - October 1971
• Four File Suit to Overturn DC Sodomy Law - October 1971
• ACLU Begins Preparations for a Test Case - September 1970
• House Group Continues Homosexuality Hearing - August 10, 1963
• ‘Morality’ Talk Slows Sex Hearing - August 9, 1963
• Dancing & Kissing - March, 1962

Florida

• Florida Republican Guilty in Washroom Sex Case - 365Gay.com, November 10, 2007
  State Rep. Bob Allen (R) has been convicted of offering an undercover male police officer cash for sex.
• One Year Later: Pryor’s Record on 11th Circuit - Law.com, February 11, 2005
• U.S. Court Rejects Gay Marriage Ban Challenge - UK.Gay.com, January 21, 2005
• Supreme Court Sidesteps Gay Adoption Case - Washington Post, January 10, 2005
• Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Florida Adoption Ban Case - Human Rights Campaign, January 10, 2005
• Supreme Court Mulls Hearing Florida Gay Adoption Case - 365Gay.com, January 5, 2005
• Will Justices Hear Florida Adoption Ban Case? - PlanetOut, January 5, 2005
• Gay Adoption Case May Evoke Supreme Court’s ‘Lawrence’ Decision - Legal Times, January 5, 2005
• Gay Men Appeal Federal Decision Upholding Florida’s Ban on Gay Adoptions - February 20, 2004
• 4 Men Ask Federal Court to Reconsider Law Prohibiting Gay Adoption - February 19, 2004
• ACLU Asks Appeals Court to Reconsider Florida Adoption Ruling - February 19, 2004
• Adoption Loss Has Gays Reeling - January 30, 2004
• Analysis of Florida Adoption Case by Arthur S. Leonard - January 29, 2004 
• Court Upholds Florida Gay Adoption Ban - January 29, 2004
• Florida Maintains Ban on Adoptions by Gays - January 29, 2004
• Gay Men Lose Challenge to Florida Gay Adoption Ban - January 28, 2004
• Not in the Bible - August 19, 2003
• State Denies Targeting Gays in Busts at Park Beach - July 25, 2003
• ACLU Cites Lawrence in Florida Case - July 23, 2003
• ACLU Boosts Case Against Florida Adoption Ban - July 22, 2003
• Supreme Court Ruling Helps Gay Parents Florida Suit Says - July 21, 2003
• Gay-Pride March Celebrates Ruling - June 29, 2003
• High Court Ruling May Affect Florida Law - NBC-2, June 26, 2003
• Texas Sodomy Case Is More About Equal Treatment - Key West Citizen, June 19, 2003
• County to Makeover Park - Florida Today, March 31, 2003
• Court Hears Florida Gay Adoption Ban Case - Washington Post, March 4, 2003
• Governor Jeb Bush’s Son Violated Florida’s Sodomy Law and Doesn’t Get Charged - December 11, 2000
• Going Down Down South: Fighting Absurd Sex Laws - April 1998
• National Sexual Rights Council Says You May Need Marriage Certificate To Check Into Florida Hotels - December 7, 1997

Georgia

• Cause Celebres Cross Line Into Heroism - By The Associated Press in the New York Times, November 11, 2007
  A crowd gave a hero's welcome to a 20-year-old freed from a 10-year prison sentence imposed on him for having underage sex in a hotel room at a New Year's Eve party.
• Many Teens Don't Know the Law About Sex - By The Associated Press in the New York Times, October 29, 2007 
  The tough Georgia law that sent Genarlow Wilson to prison for having oral sex with a fellow teenager has been watered down. But in Georgia -- and in many other states -- it's still a crime for teenagers to have sex, even if they're close in age.
• Georgia Court Orders Man Freed in Sex Case - By The Associated Press in the New York Times, October 26, 2007
  Genarlow Wilson had been imprisoned for having consensual oral sex with a teenager when he was 17. The Georgia Supreme Court freeing him with a 4-3 decision on Oct. 26 that called his sentence ''cruel and unusual punishment.''
• Speaker Honors Gay Activism Landmarks 'Queer History' Important for Change - BlackandRed.com, February 26, 2007
  The University of Georgia's gay community has had many civil rights victories since the late 1960s, but it still has a way to go.
• Court Nixes Part of Georgia Obscenity Law - Southern Voice, February 24, 2006
• Georgia’s Chief Justice to Retire - The Associated Press, February 9, 2005
• Bills Would Extend Waiting Time for Divorce, Add Adultery Penalty - Associated Press, January 13, 2005
• Georgia Supremes Strike Fornication Law - The Data Lounge, January 27, 2003
• Georgia Supreme Court Throws Out Fornication Law - Southern Voice, January 17, 2003
• Georgia Court Strikes Down Unmarried Sex Law - The Associated Press, January 14, 2003
• Georgia High Court Tosses Fornication Law - Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network, January 14, 2003
• Georgia’s Supreme Court Strikes Down Fornication Law - Gay Today, January 14, 2003
• Georgia Supreme Court Strikes Down Fornication Law - American Civil Liberties Union, January 13, 2003
• Fornication Statute Opinion Summary - Supreme Court of Georgia, January 13, 2003
• ACLU Defends Privacy for Love - The Washington Times, October 17, 2002
• Oxendine Ordered to Honor Domestic-Partner Insurance - September 23, 1999
• Prosecutors Split On Whether Solicitation Is Illegal - June 10, 1999
• Justice Sears Style - February 11, 1999
• Georgia Repeals Sodomy Law - December 4, 1998
• Ministers Flail Ruling On Sodomy - November 29, 1998
• Rulings Afford Sexual Privacy More Legal Protection - November 27, 1998
• State's High Court Overturns Sodomy Law - November 24, 1998
• Georgia Overturns Anti-Sodomy Law - November 24, 1998
• Gay Groups Cheer Georgia Ruling That Overturns Sodomy Law - November 24, 1998
• Georgia Overturns Anti-Sodomy Law - November 24, 1998
• Georgia Court Says Measure Violates of State Constitution - November 23, 1998
• Georgia Supreme Court Overturns Sodomy Law - November 23, 1998
• Georgia Overturns Anti-Sodomy Law - November 23, 1998
• Georgia Supreme Court Overturns Sodomy Law - November 23, 1998
• ABC News Questions Sodomy Laws - May 26, 1998
• Langford's unique and candid campaign worth watching - January 28, 1998
• Court refuses appeal in Shahar - January 13, 1998
• Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Lesbian Lawyer in Georgia - January 13, 1998
• Court Allows Job Denial After Lesbian Marriage - January 13, 1998
• Decision in Shahar shows need for legislation - January 12, 1998
• Court rejects appeal from lawyer denied job by Bowers - January 12, 1998
• Senator Langford Proposes Repeal - June 12, 1997
• Sodomy Ruling Is A Wake-Up Call For Georgians - March 21, 1996
• Sodomy Law Reaffirmed - March 12, 1996
• Sodomy law faces new challenge - October 9, 1995
• The Search for Sexual Freedom - September 1990

Hawaii

• Hawaii Lawmakers Override Veto (Raises Age of Consent to 16) - July 12, 2001

Idaho

• Idaho Gays Welcome High Court Ruling in Texas Case - Associated Press, June 26, 2003
• Gay Rights Activists Plan Event on Friday - February 13, 2003
• Idaho Sex Reform: Adult Consent Law Adopted; Nation’s Third - June 22, 1971

Illinois

• Battle for Gay Rights Builds - June 29, 2003
• Arguing the Legalities of Gay Rights - October 28, 2001
• The Society for Human Rights—1925 - September, 1962

Indiana

• Ruling a Boost for Gay Activists Supreme Court’s Decision in Texas Case Could Mean Gains for Gay Rights in Indiana - June 28, 2003

Iowa

• Book Review: Shedding Light on a 1950s Antigay ‘Panic’ - June 13, 2002
• ‘Sex-Crime Panic’ Examines the Panic Surrounding Sioux City Crimes of 1954 - March 15, 2002
• Book Excerpt: Guilty Until Proven Straight - February 7-14, 2002
• Sex-Crime Panic: Could It Happen Today? - January 21, 2002
• Excerpts from the 2000 Iowa Republican Platform - June 10, 2000
• Polk Republicans Adopt Platform  (Recriminalization) - March 9, 1998

Kansas

• Matthew Limon to Spend Thanksgiving with Family - 365Gay.com, November 23, 2005
• Limon Back in Court - The Advocate, November 22, 2005
• Matthew Limon Re-Arrested - 365Gay.com (Associated Press), November 18, 2005
• Kline Will Not Appeal Ruling on Gay Underage Sex - Wichita Eagle, November 17, 2005
• State Won't Appeal Matthew Limon Case - 365Gay.com (Associated Press), November 16, 2005
• Defendant in Gay Sex Case Released from Kansas Jail - Kansas City Star, November 5, 2005
• Gay Teen Limon Finally Released - 365Gay.com, November 4, 2005
• Limon's Attorney Asks for His Release - The Advocate, November 4, 2005
• Gay Teen Matthew Limon Denied Freedom - 365Gay.com, November 3, 2005
• Gay Teen Mathew Limon May Be Released Thursday - 365Gay.com (Associated Press), November 2, 2005
• Social Science, Attitudes Collide in Kansas Sodomy Case - September 4, 2004
• Kansas Official Justifies Harsher Laws for Gay Sex - September 2, 2004
• Group Forms Task Force to Focus on Gay Rights - September 2, 2004
• Court Weighs Harsher Sentence in Gay Underage Sex Case - September 1, 2004
• Kansas Supreme Court Hears Gay Teen Appeal - August 31, 2004
• Social Workers Argue for Jailed Gay Teen - August 9, 2004
• Court Told to Drop Gay Teen’s Prison Term - June 24, 2004
• Kansas Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Imprisoned Gay Teen Case - June 2, 2004
• Kansas Court to Hear Appeal Gay Teen’s Case - June 2, 2004
• Kansas High Court to Review Gay Teen’s Case - May 28, 2004
• Kansas Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Gay Teen’s Prison Sentence - May 28, 2004
• Kansas Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Imprisoned Gay Teen Case - May 27, 2004
• Attorney Promises Appeal of Kansas Sodomy Case - February 3, 2004
• Attorney Promises Appeal of Ruling in Sodomy Case - January 31, 2004
• Gay, Lesbian Advocates Dismayed by Ruling - January 31, 2004
• Kansas Court Upholds Harsher Penalties for Gay Sex - January 31, 2004
• Kansas Affirms Punitive Sodomy Law - January 30, 2004
• Teen’s 17-Year Sentence for Gay Sex Upheld - January 30, 2004
• Kansas Court Rejects Appeal in Sodomy Case - January 30, 2004
• Kansas Court Upholds Tougher Sentences for Gay Sex - January 30, 2004
• Defying U.S. Supreme Court, Kansas Court Upholds 17-Year Prison Sentence of Bisexual Teenager - January 30, 2004
• Statement by Cheryl Jacques on Unjust Ruling in Limon v. Kansas - January 30, 2004
• Kansas Court Backs Harsher Sodomy Sentence - January 30, 2004
• A Boy’s Life (Mathew Limon) - January 22, 2004
• Jailed Teen’s Sex Case Heard Before Kansas Court of Appeals - December 4, 2003
• Prison Sentence Challenged for Kansas Man - December 3, 2003
• Court Takes on Gay Teen Sex Case - December 3, 2003
• Appeal Begins for Teen Sentenced to Prison for Gay Sex - December 2, 2003
• ACLU Appears Before Kansas Appeals Court on Behalf of Youth Serving 15 Additional Years in Prison Because He is Gay - December 2, 2003
• Judge Questions Punishment in Sodomy Case - December 2, 2003
• Kansas Court Retries Gay Teen Sex Case - December 2, 2003
• ACLU Files Brief in Kansas Sodomy Case - October 3, 2003
• Worker Ordered Not To Discuss Supreme Court Gay Ruling - October 2, 2003
• Kansas Attorney General Defends Same-Sex Sodomy Law - September 17, 2003
• Gays Not Entitled to Civil Rights Kansas AG Says - September 16, 2003
• Kline, ACLU Dispute Marriage, Consent Laws - September 15, 2003
• Court Asked to Overturn 17-Year Prison Sentence of Bi Teen - August 11, 2003
• Library Reprimands Employee for Gay Rights Talk - July 16, 2003
• Worker Ordered Not To Discuss Supreme Court Gay Ruling - July 16, 2003
• Defining The Moral Battle Line - July 5, 2003
• Kansas Told to Rethink Gay Sex Case - June 28, 2003
• High Court Strikes Down Sodomy Law - Wichita Eagle, June 27, 2003
• Court Invalidates Kansas Law; Reaction Mixed - Topeka Capital-Journal, June 26, 2003
• Kansas’ Sodomy Law to Be Focus of Meeting - Topeka Capital-Journal, May 7, 2003
• The Other Matthew - Boston Phoenix, February 20-27, 2003
• Civil Rights Groups Rally in Kansas - Datalounge, February 19, 2003
• Protest Targets Kansas Sodomy Law - Advocate, February 19, 2003
• Kansas Gays Protest Sodomy Law - February 17, 2003
• Same Laws for Same Sex - February 16, 2003
• Activists Rally Against State’s Sodomy Laws - February 16, 2003
• Sodomy Law, Man’s Conviction Upheld - January 23, 2003
• Matthew Limon Petitions High Court - January 17, 2003
• Imprisoned Teen Challenges Kansas ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Law - January 17, 2003
• ACLU Appeals Teen Sex Case to High Court - Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network, October 10, 2002
• Kansas Appeals Court Rejects Sodomy Challenge - February 6, 2002
• Court Rejects Challenge to Sodomy Law - February 5, 2002
• Appeal Denied in Kansas Sodomy Case - February 5, 2002
• Kansas Upholds Anti-Sodomy Law - February 4, 2002
• Unprotected Sex - December 6, 2001
• ACLU Challenges Kansas Teen-Sex Law - November 20, 2001
• Case Tests State Sex Law - November 18, 2001
• ACLU Files Brief in Gay Oral Sex Case - October 2, 2001
• Letter: Equal Under The Law - November 16, 1998
• Letter: Pagan Communist Controls White House - November 7, 1998
• Filmmaker in Town To Protest Phelps, Sodomy Laws - October 31, 1998
• Letter: Clinton denigrates nation's moral values - May 24, 1998
• Appeals court upholds state anti-sodomy law - April 26, 1998
• Letter: Chain of criminals - April 21, 1998
• Letter: Companies law-abiding - April 21, 1998
• Man fights anti-gay sex law - January 16, 1998
• ACLU: City, state sodomy laws unfair - September 17, 1997
• ACLU Argues Challenge To Law - September 16, 1997
• Sodomy can be civil disobedience - October 23, 1995
• ACLU joins fight against city sodomy law - September 7, 1995
• 34 of 35 Gage Park arrestees convicted - August 28, 1995
• More men arrested in Gage Park Sex Sting - August 18, 1995

Kentucky

• Individual Rights Champion to Speak - April 26, 2002
• Gay Panic Defense Could Get Boost from Kentucky Bill - February 1, 2001
• Central High Council Votes To Keep Explicit Novels - c1997?
• Lawmaker Says Proposal Holds No Hidden Agenda - April 16, 1996
• Amendments Slow House And Senate - February 15, 1996
• Sodomy Ban Considered - January 16, 1996

Louisiana

• Appellate Court Hears About La. “Crimes Against Nature” Law - The Shreveport Times, April 1, 2005
• Appeal Court Hears Arguments over Louisiana Sodomy Law - 365Gay.com, March 31, 2005
• Louisiana Gays Battles ‘Crimes Against Nature’ Law - 365Gay.com, March 30, 2005
• Appeals Court Hears Arguments on La. Sodomy Law - Biz New Orleans, March 31, 2005
• Judges: Sodomy Ruling Doesn’t Void Oral Sex Law - The Time Picayune, January 20, 2005
• Louisiana Supreme Court Upholds Sodomy Law - The Associated Press, January 19, 2005
• Judge Strikes Down Portions of Louisiana Sodomy Law - August 28, 2004
• Dean, Council Clash on Gay Unions - July 10, 2004
• Louisiana May Ban Low-Slung Pants - April 23, 2004
• Top Court Gay Ruling Labeled a Victory - July 10, 2003
• Morality vs. Privacy Central Louisiana Divided Over Court Ruling on Gay Sex - June 28, 2003
• Two States with Universal Sodomy Laws Consider High Court Ruling - The Advocate, June 27, 2003
• High Court Ruling Makes Louisiana Sodomy Law Partly Unenforceable - Associated Press, June 26, 2003
• Louisiana Senate Kills Effort to Repeal Sodomy Law - The Advocate, June 12, 2003
• Committee Passes Proposal to Repeal Louisiana Sodomy Law - The Advocate, May 29, 2003
• Senate Committee Votes to Repeal Louisiana Sodomy Law - Shreveport Times, May 28, 2003
• Louisiana Bill Targets Public Sex - The Advocate, May 21, 2003
• Changing Sodomy Law Wouldn’t Affect Many - New Orleans Times-Picayune, March 10, 2003
• New Orleans D.A.: Change Sodomy Law - Advocate, March 1, 2003
• New Orleans DA: Change Louisiana Sodomy Laws - Associated Press, February 27, 2003
• Louisiana Appeals Court Says Sodomy Laws Not Anti-Gay - November 23, 2002
• Louisiana Sodomy Law Upheld - November 22, 2002
• Court Upholds Louisiana Sodomy Law - November 22, 2002
• Appeals Court Upholds Sodomy Law - November 22, 2002
• Louisiana Sodomy Law Challenge Gets Under Way - September 6, 2002
• Louisiana Supreme Court Upholds Sodomy Law - April 3, 2002
• Louisiana Court Upholds Ban on Sodomy - March 29, 2002
• Louisiana Court Upholds Ban on Sodomy - March 29, 2002
• Louisiana High Court Upholds Sodomy Ban - March 29, 2002
• Louisiana Sodomy Case Pending - October 26, 2001
• Gay-Rights Lobbyist Sees More Tolerance - September 2, 2001
• Louisiana Sodomy Law Survives Repeal Effort - June 21, 2001
• House Rejects Proposal to Revamp Sodomy Law - June 15, 2001
• Senate Revives Proposal to Change Sodomy Law - June 14, 2001
• Louisiana House Splits on Sodomy Repeal - May 24, 2001
• Louisiana Upholds Sodomy Law, Rejects Employment Non-Discrimination Bill - May 24, 2001
• Bill To Change Sodomy Law Fails In House - May 18, 2001
• Bill That Keeps Classification of Gays as Sex Offenders Clears Louisiana Senate - April 12, 2001
• Louisiana Sodomy Law Ruled Unconstitutional - March 19, 2001
• Louisiana Inmate Pleads Guilty to "Crime Against Nature" Charge for Gay Sex - March 14, 2001
• Man Admits "Crimes Against Nature" - March 14, 2001
• Louisiana Sodomy Law Challenged - January 8, 2001
• Louisiana Court To Hear Sodomy Law Case - January 8, 2001
• Louisiana Court Upholds Sodomy Law - July 14, 2000
• Louisiana Sodomy Law Upheld - July 8-10, 2000
• Louisiana High Court Upholds Sodomy Law - July 7, 2000
• ACLU Vows to Continue Fighting Louisiana Sodomy Law in Wake of State Supreme Court Decision Upholding It - July 7, 2000
• Louisiana Upholds Ban on Oral and Anal Sex - July 7, 2000
• Louisiana High Court Upholds Sodomy Law - July 7, 2000
• Louisiana Supreme Court Upholds 195-Year Old Sex Ban - July 7, 2000
• Louisiana Upholds Sodomy Law - July 7, 2000
• Louisiana Justices Hear Arguments In Sodomy Conviction Appeal - April 12, 2000
• Louisiana High Court Mulls Sodomy Law - April 12, 2000
• Sodomy Law Showdown Slated Before High Court - March 15, 2000
• Court: Sodomy Law Unconstitutional - March 17, 1999
• Louisiana State Appeals Court Strikes Down Sodomy Law - February 12, 1999
• Louisiana's Sodomy Statute Is Challenged - October 31, 1998
• Louisiana Law Said To Target Homosexuals - October 27, 1998
• Louisiana Law Said To Target Homosexuals - October 26, 1998
• Louisiana's Sodomy Law To Be Challenged In Court - October 25, 1998
• Judge Halts Prosecution of Sex Case - October 22, 1998

Maryland

• Gay Father Appeals Custody Ruling - Washington Post, February 3, 2005
• Gay Father Fights Antigay Custody Restriction - The Advocate, February 2, 2005
• Ouster of Gay Partner ‘Negative’ - Associated Press, January 31, 2005
• Appeal in Case of Gay Couple Ordered to Split Up Over Child - 365Gay.com, January 31, 2005
• Gay Pair Appeals Order to Split Over Child - Gay.com, January 31, 2005
• NCLR and Lambda Legal File Appeal on Behalf of Gay Dad in Maryland Custody Case - NCLR and Lambda Legal, January 31, 2005
• Ruling on Gays Stirs Up Emotions - June 28, 2003
• Maryland Front Should Remain Quiet - January 11, 2002
• Letter: Definition of Sodomy Shouldn't Be Ignored - April 1, 1999
• Maryland Judge's Ruling Protects Private, Consensual Sex Acts - January 20, 1999
• Gay, Lesbian Activists Target Maryland Law Southeast County Briefs - January 19, 1999
• Maryland Trial Judge Rules Sodomy Law Does Not Apply to Gays in ACLU Challenge, But Sustains Solicitation Law - October 20, 1998
• Court Rejects Maryland Oral Sex Ban - October 19, 1998
• ACLU Hails Swift Court Action in Voiding Maryland's Criminal Ban on "Unnatural Sex" - October 19, 1998
• ACLU Hails Judge’s Ruling Against Maryland Law Affecting Gays - October 17, 1998
• Homosexuals Win Challenge to State Sex Practices Law - October 17, 1998
• Gay, Lesbian Activists Target Maryland Law Southeast County Briefs - August 26, 1998
• Picking up the pieces - June 19, 1998
• Anti-Gay Bias Alleged in Md. Sex Law - February 6, 1998
• Maryland’s Criminal Ban on ‘Unnatural Sex’ Targeted by ACLU Class-Action Suit - February 5, 1998
• Pols asked to modernize adultery law - January 29, 1998
• Pr. George's Judge Arrested In Restroom - January 16, 1998
• ACLU targets Maryland sodomy law - January 2, 1998
• Executioner Requests Payment - Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, October 21, 1681

Maine

• Gay Rights Bill Debate Resurfaces - Morning Sentinel, February 27, 2005
• Residents anticipate divisive debate - April 24, 1998

Massachusetts

• Bill Softens Bestiality Statute [Nutty take on a good bill. -Bob] -  WorldNetDaily (extreme right wing),  November 16, 2005
• Dark Moment for Gays Revisited in Documentary - The Republican, January 22, 2005
• Marriage Legislation Dominates Massachusetts Legislative Calendar - December 2, 2004
• Drag Lad Tells All - Boston Phoenix, March 6-13, 2003
• Committee Gives Approval to Bill Abolishing Archaic Sex Laws - March 5, 2002
• Court: Sodomy Laws do Not Cover Private Acts - February 22, 2002
• SJC Limits Prosecution for Sodomy - February 22, 2002
• State’s Highest Court Refuses to Throw Out Anti-Sodomy Laws - February 21, 2002
• Massachusetts Court Finds Sodomy Laws Inapplicable to Private, Consensual Conduct - February 21, 2002
• Massachusetts Sodomy Law Challenged - December 17, 2001
• Gay Rights Group Challenges State’s Anti-Sodomy Laws - December 17, 2001
• Governor: It’s Not OK to Have Public Sex in Massachusetts - March 2, 2001
• New Rules Alter Line Drawn on Public Sex - March 2, 2001
• Suit Filed Over Massachusetts Sodomy Law - July 18, 2000
• Suit Filed Against Massachusetts Sodomy Law  - July 17, 2000
• Massachusetts SJC Is Asked to Overturn Sodomy Laws - July 14, 2000
• Judge: Police Can't Order Gay Man To Leave Rest Area - October 29, 1999
• State Employee Sues For Access To Rest Areas - September 2, 1999
• Judge Delays Decision on Suit Over Rest Area Ban - September 2, 1999
• Gay State Employee Sues State Police For Pestering Him At Local Rest Stops - September 1, 1999

Michigan

• Charges Dropped Against Gay Man - May 24, 2004
• Lawmaker: U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Invalidates Michigan Law - June 26, 2003
• Bills Challenge Antigay Michigan Laws - The Advocate, May 7, 2003
• Bill Would Repeal Michigan Gay Sex Ban - 365Gay.com, May 6, 2003
• Triangle/Lawmakers Aim to Clean Up the Books - Triangle Foundation, May 5, 2003
• Bill Would Repeal Gross Indecency Law - Detroit News, May 5, 2003
• Gay Rights: Balance is Sought on a Sensitive Topic - July 2, 2002
• Gubernatorial Candidate Questionnaire: Gay Rights - July 2, 2002
• The Verdict is In: Police Wrong in Decoy Operation - May 25, 2002
• City Reaches Settlement on Harassment Suit - May 17, 2002
• Detroit to Settle Rouge Park Gay Entrapment Suit - May 16, 2002
• Detroit Settles Lawsuit Over Police Sting on Gays - May 16, 2002
• No Contest Plea for Attempted Sodomy - February 13, 2002
• ACLU Sues Detroit Police Over Gay Arrests - December 18, 2001
• Triangle Foundation/ACLU File Federal Lawsuit Against City of Detroit Police Department - December 17, 2001
• ACLU Challenges Detroit Police Practice of Profiling Gay Men; Police Actions Unconstitutional - December 17, 2001
• 180 Days in Jail for Attempted Sodomy - November 21, 2001
• Detroit Cops End Gay Entrapment Program - August 9, 2001
• Judge Cleared in Sex Sting Case - August 7, 2001
• Case Triggers a Revamp of the Wayne County Illicit Sex Prosecution Guidelines - August 7, 2001
• Prosecutor’s New Standards Called "Positive Step," "Vindication" By Triangle - August 6, 2001
• Quizzed on Sting, Cop Evasive - July 7, 2001
• Isabella Case Puts Attention On 'Gross Indecency' Law - April 4, 1999
• Group Brings Civil Rights Demands to Capitol - March 1999
• Warren may study park sex ban - February 9, 1988
• Beware young lovers of Sterling Heights parks - February 5, 1998

Minnesota

• Minnesota Masseuse May Lose License for Having Sexual Relations with Her Husband - The Associated Press, August 7, 2006
  A Masseuse could lose her state license as a massage therapist for having sexual relations with her husband who is a former client. He saw her professionally from October 2000 to May 2002, and the two say they started dating in July 2002. But when they consummated the relationship a few months later, they ran afoul of a Minnesota law that bans massage therapists from having sexual relations with former clients for two years.
• Minnesota Group Denounces ‘Whorehouse Days’ - The Associated Press, January 27, 2005
• Twin Cities Gay Rights Groups Hail Decision; Conservatives Express Dismay - Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 26, 2003
• Ventura Relents in Minnesota Sodomy Fight - September 5, 2001
• Minnesota Sodomy Law Repealed - September 5, 2001
• Default Dooms Minnesota Sodomy Law - September 4, 2001
• Attorney General Will Not Appeal Sodomy Ruling - September 1, 2001
• The Last Sodomites - July 18, 2001
• Judge Throws Out Minnesota’s Sodomy Law - July 12, 2001
• Sodomy Law Overturned - July 6, 2001
• Sodomy Ruling Applies to Every Adult in Minnesota - July 3, 2001
• Judge Says Minnesota’s Sodomy Repeal Applies to All Adults - July 3, 2001
• Judge Extends Ruling in Sodomy Case to Minnesota Adults - July 3, 2001
• Minnesota Court Expands Sodomy Law Ruling - July 2, 2001
• Court Ruling Striking Down Sodomy Law Will Apply to Every Adult in Minnesota - July 2, 2001
• Minnesota Judge Says Sodomy Ruling Applies to Every Adult in State - July 2, 2001
• Lipman Not Behind the Wheel of Hatch Recall Bid, He Says - June 26, 2001
• Minnesota Sodomy Law Down, Still Under Attack - June 14, 2001
• Ventura Opposes Sodomy Law But Won’t Stop Legal Challenge - June 8, 2001
• Ventura Fights Sodomy Ruling - June 7, 2001
• Sodomy Law Returns to Courts for Review of Scope - June 6, 2001
• Ventura Administration Tries To Limit Ruling Striking Down Sodomy Law; Hearing Thursday - June 6, 2001
• ACLU: Jesse Ventura Trying to Limit Ruling That Struck Down Sodomy Law - June 6, 2001
• Sodomy Law Returns to Courts for Review of Scope - June 6, 2001
• Minnesota Battling Court’s Sodomy Law Ruling - June 5, 2001
• Letter: A Platform to Misinform - May 27, 2001
• Minnesota Judge Strikes Down Sodomy Law - May 25, 2001
• Sodomy Law Struck Down in Minnesota - May 25, 2001
• Court Strikes Down Minnesota Sodomy Law - May 22, 2001
• Minnesota Sodomy Law Struck Down - May 22, 2001
• Minnesota Sodomy Law Struck Down - May 21, 2001
• Hennepin County Judge Finds Sodomy Law Unconstitutional - May 21, 2001
• State Court Strikes Down Minnesota’s Sodomy Law - May 21, 2001
• ACLU: Court Strikes Down Minnesota Sodomy Law - May 21, 2001
• Minnesota Sodomy Law Challenged - June 23, 2000
• ACLU Takes Aim at State Sodomy Law that 'Invites the State into Every Bedroom in Minnesota' - June 22, 2000
• MCLU Suing to Overturn Minnesota’s Sodomy Law - June 22, 2000
• Officials Say Being Openly Gay Isn’t a Detriment - November 21, 1999
• Log Cabin Republicans of Minnesota Condemns Actions Taken by Senator Neuville and Limmer to Retain Silly and Senseless Laws - March 20, 1999
• Activists React to Repeal of Georgia Sodomy Law in Minnesota - November 25, 1998

Mississippi

• Mississippi Gay Group Boycotts City of Gulfport - August 8, 2003
• Equality Mississippi Asks Cruise Ships  to Avoid Gulfport - August 4, 2003
• Mississippi Gays Call for City Boycott - July 31, 2003
• Equality Mississippi Calls on Gays and Lesbians Around the Nation to Boycott Gulfport, Mississippi - July 30, 2003
• City Council Votes Against Sodomy Law - July 24, 2003
• Homophobic Gulfport City Councilman Introduces Anti-Gay Resolution with Inaccurate Facts - July 17, 2003
• Equality Mississippi Takes Issue with Mississippi Lieutenant Gubernatorial Candidate’s Remarks - July 13, 2003
• Ruling Invalidates State Law Against ‘Unnatural Sex’ - The Clarion-Ledger, June 26, 2003
• Town Hall Meeting in Mississippi Saturday on Lambda Legal’s U.S. Supreme Court Case Challenging Texas’s Sodomy Law - Equality Mississippi, April 28, 2003
• Equality Mississippi Submits Amicus Brief in Historic U.S. Supreme Court Case Brought By Lambda Legal - January 16, 2003
• Court Refuses Discrimination Case - October 9, 2001
• Gay Groups Plan to Lobby Lawmakers - August 23, 2001

Missouri

• Group Says it Lobbied for Repeal of Ban on Gay Sex Saturday - Southeast Missourian, February 10, 2007
• Missouri Gay Rights Group Marks 20th Anniversary - The Advocate, September 1, 2006
  Missouri has made strides over the last two decades in protecting the rights of its lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual residents, the leader of advocacy group Promo said. The group was founded in St. Louis as the Private Education Rights Project to work for the repeal of a state law that made sodomy between same-sex partners a crime. In July, three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a similar Texas law unconstitutional, the group finally got its wish when Gov. Matt Blunt signed legislation removing the sodomy statute from the books.
• Missouri Repeals Gay Sodomy Law - 365Gay.com, June 4, 2006
  Missouri lawmakers have repealed the Sexual Misconduct law - three years after the US Supreme Court ruled such laws were unconstitutional.
• Group Forms Task Force to Focus on Gay Rights - September 2, 2004
• Some Charges Dropped, But Lives Changed for Men in Sodomy Case - June 29, 2003
• Missouri’s Anti-Sodomy Law Similar to Texas Case - KOLR10-TV, June 26, 2003
• Head Cases - January 2, 2003
• Sodomy Law Faces Challenge in Missouri - The Data Lounge, December 18, 2002
• ACLU Challenges Missouri Video Store Arrests - Advocate, December 18, 2002
• ‘Missouri Gay Sex Ban Unconstitutional’ Lawyer - December 17, 2002
• Defendants in Missouri Sodomy Case Challenge State’s Ban on Gay Sex - Kansas City Star, December 16, 2002
• Full Assault on Sodomy Laws - August 20, 2002
• Three Arrested in Raid Plan to Challenge Law Banning Gay Sex - August 7, 2002
• Gay Games: A Political Campaign Gets Bitchy - July 25, 2002
• Missouri Prosecutor Brings Sodomy Charges - April 3, 2002
• Missouri Porn Theater Bust Targets Gays - April 2, 2002
• Charges Against Gay Men Draw Criticism - April 2, 2002
• Cops Raid Video Store, 6 Charged - April 2, 2002
• Prosecutor Uses Anti-Gay Sex Statute to Charge Six Men in Prostitution Case - March 31, 2002
• Unprotected Sex - December 6, 2001
• UCC LGBT Coalition Meets and Protests in Kansas City - August 2001
• Judges Let Sex Ruling Stand - September 1, 1999
• Nixon Disagrees With State Ban On Gay Sex - August 22, 1999
• Attorney General Seeks Clarification of Law about Homosexual Sex - August 9, 1999
• Legislative Activity Percolates Across The Nation - April 23, 1999
• Police Enforcing Law Against Asking For Gay Sex In Park - September 23, 1998
• Low Turnout In City Primary May Be A Plus For Bill Haas (excerpt) - July 27, 1998
• Letter: Voting patterns - March 2, 1998
• Gay legislator introduces bill to repeal ban on homosexual sex - February 26, 1998
• Lewinsky Case Prompts New Efforts To Repeal Laws Against Oral Sex - February 26, 1998
• Missouri - pro-gay bills, pro-gay ruling - February 15, 1998

Montana

• Montana Supreme Court Says Gay Couples Due Benefits - Advocate, December 31, 2004
• Advocates: Gay Rights Gain Ground - February 8, 2003
• Montana Lawmaker Lobbies to Remove Sodomy Law - January 31, 2003
• No Sodomy Prosecutions in Montana, But Law Persists - January 31, 2003
• Montana's Inactive Sodomy Law Remains - January 30, 2003
• Move To Repeal Montana Sodomy Law - January 30, 2003
• Lawmaker Wants Removal of Gay Sex Law - January 29, 2003
• Martz to Gays: No Special Support - April 19, 2002
• Queer and Present Danger: Outing Montana’s Ambient Homophobia - March 21, 2002
• Martz Tells Lesbians, Gays She Won’t Fight Their Fight - June 16, 2001
• Out in Montana - May 31, 2001
• Panel Refuses to Erase Unconstitutional Law - February 16, 2001
• Montana Sodomy Reform Hearing - January 30, 2001
• House Defeats Gay Sex Bill, Again - February 20, 1999
• House to Reconsider Anti-Gays Law - February 17, 1999
• House Defeats End To Ban On Gay Sex - February 14, 1999
• Bill to Take Montana’s Unconstitutional Sodomy Law Off The Books Fails in 50-50 House Vote - February 14, 1999
• Committee Hears Bill to Remove Law Against Same-Gender Sex - February 6, 1999
• Montana Sodomy Ruling Appealed - March 14, 1996
• Judge Strikes Down State's Gay Sex Law - February 18, 1996
• Montana Justice Dept. seeks to end gay sodomy suit - c1995
• Montana Bill Seeks Registration of Gays - March 24, 1995
• Montana Votes to Register Homosexuals - March 22, 1995

Nebraska

• Housing Protection Called a Civil Right - Lincoln Journal Star, March 7, 2003
• AIDS Project Director Gets Ticket at Park - March 23, 2002
• High Court to Decide If a Boy Can Have 2 Moms - August 3, 2001

Nevada

• Nevada ACLU Hails Supreme Court Rulings - June 26, 2003
• Author Is Compiling Facts on Gays in Nevada - August 19, 2000
• Bill Takes Gay Rights To New Level In Nevada - April 4, 1999
• Gay Rally Adds Impetus to Assembly Bill - March 22, 1999

New Hampshire

• N.H. High Court Says Gay Sex Not Adultery - Associated Press, November 7, 2003
• Court Considers Gay Adultery Case - The Advocate, April 23, 2003
• Couple’s Query: Is It Adultery If You’re Gay? - Concord Monitor, April 21, 2003

New Jersey

• After Lewdness Conviction Is Overturned, Activists Call for Investigation of Police - The Advocate, August 9, 2006
  A Manhattan gay man's conviction on lewd behavior was overturned by a New Jersey appeals court Monday, prompting a gay rights advocate to call for an investigation of police procedure.
• Old Lewdness Arrest Quashed - Gay City News, March 9, 2006
• Calls for Probe into Treatment of Gays Arrested in New Jersey Park - The Associated Press, July 28, 2005
• Disparate Results in New Jersey Lewdness Arrests - Gay City News, July 14, 2005
• Gay Rights Leaders Applaud Court Decision - The Trentonian, June 28, 2003

New York

• Sex Arrests on a Gay Beach Provoke a Hamptons Debate - July 19, 2003
• NY Gay Pride Marchers Cheer New Hero: Supreme Court - June 29, 2003
• New York Deletes ‘Sodomy’ from Its Laws - Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network, June 20, 2003
• New York Kills Last Vestige of Sodomy Law - 365Gay.com, June 20, 2003
• New York Deletes Sodomy from Books - Advocate, June 20, 2003
• NCSF Meets with Linda Fairstein, Head of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit - July 10, 2001
• Protest To Mark 100th Anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s Death - November 28, 2000
• Governor Signs Sexual Assault Reform Act - October 19, 2000
• Legislature Wraps Up with a Bang - June 30, 2000
• Legislature Departs Albany on an Upbeat Note (Go Figure!) - June 30, 2000
• New York Sexual Assault Reform Law to Repeal Consensual Sodomy Statute - June 23, 2000

North Carolina

• Mopping Up Operation on Sex Crimes - Leonard Link, November 6, 2006
• Greensboro's Untold Story: The Gay Scare of '57 - Greensboro News-Record, September 17, 2006
  On Feb. 4, 1957, a Guilford County grand jury emerged from its closed session and issued a bundle of indictments of a scope unlike any before or since - against 32 men accused of being homosexual.
  After witnesses named the men during police interrogations, the suspects were tried one by one in a Greensboro courtroom for crimes against nature, almost exclusively with consenting adults.
• Charlotte Attorney Calls for Change in North Carolina Laws Governing Public Sex - November 13, 2003
• North Carolina Still Enforcing Sodomy Law - August 27, 2003
• N.C. Sodomy Law Still Enforced Despite Ruling on Texas Measure - August 25, 2003
• North Carolina Judge Rules State Sodomy Law Unconstitutional - July 15, 2003
• Last Vestige of North Carolina Sodomy Law ‘Unconstitutional’ - July 14, 2003
• Gay Community Warned of Extremist Group's Plans - July 11, 2003
• North Carolina Police Continue to Lay Sodomy Charges - July 7, 2003
• Sodomy Arrest Guidelines Revised - July 6, 2003
• N.C. Gay Rights Groups Applaud Supreme Court’s Sodomy Ruling - June 26, 2003
• Benefits Advocates Criticize Decision - Durham Herald-Sun, March 16, 2003
• Lawmakers Back Away From Penalizing or Protecting Gays - October 8, 2001
• Repeal of North Carolina Sodomy Law Introduced - March 13, 2001
• Push Made for Change in North Carolina Sodomy Law - March 13, 2001
• North Carolina Pressed to Amend Sodomy Law - March 13, 2001
• Changes Sought in State Sex Law - March 9, 2001
• Gay-Rights Activists Prepared for Session Campaign to Change Laws - March 4, 2001
• Atmosphere Improving for Gays in North Carolina Legislature - January 11, 2001
• North Carolina Pride in Durham - June 13, 2000
• James Asks State To Probe ‘Felons’ Remark by Warren - May 14, 1999
• North Carolina Panel Hears Sodomy Reform - May 12, 1999
• Repeal of State’s Sodomy Law Doubtful - May 12, 1999
• Felony Law on Sodomy Debated - May 12, 1999
• Gay Advocates Get Hearing In Senate Committee - May 11, 1999
• Homosexuals Rally For New Laws - March 24, 1999
• Gays Lobby For Changes in Hate Crime Law - March 23, 1999
• North Carolina County Undoes Anti-Gay Funding Bans - February 24, 1999
• Mitchell County Sheriff to Forfeit Pay, Makes Apology for Tape Recording - September 27, 1997
• Sheriff’s Apology Won’t Do, Gay Rights Advocates Say - September 6, 1997

North Dakota

• Judge Rules State Adultery Law Unconstitutional - Grand Forks Herald, March 1, 2005
• Man Faces Rare Adultery Charge in Fargo - Grand Forks Herald, February 10, 2005

Ohio

• U.S. Senate Candidate Wants Death Penalty for Homosexuals - WTOL, March 7, 2006
• Man Jailed for Breaking a Nonexistent Law is Cleared - Gay People’s Chronicle, December 16, 2005
• Judge Who Jailed Man for Nonexistent Crime Is Sued - November 21, 2003
• Man Sues, Claiming Law Was Outdated - November 15, 2003
• Man Jailed Under Voided ‘Importuning’ Law Sues City - November 14, 2003
• Man Jailed for Breaking Law That Wasn’t in Effect - September 19, 2003
• Obscenity Law in Ohio Targeted by Lawyer - July 23, 2003
• New Adult Ordinance May Close Toledo’s Only Baths - Gay People’s Chronicle, May 16, 2003
• Community Leaders Upset with Columbus Officials - Gay People’s Chronicle, May 16, 2003
• Ohio High Court Okays Secret Video - The Data Lounge, May 2, 2003
• Ohio High Court Allows Toilet Camera Conviction to Stand - Gay People’s Chronicle, May 2, 2003
• Police Toilet-Camera Case Headed to Ohio High Court - January 17, 2003
• Court Okays Police Cameras in Restrooms - December 27, 2002
• Importuning’s Last Gasp - June 21, 2002
• Group Wants Ohio to Outlaw All Gay and Lesbian Sex - May 24, 2002
• Finally Legal to Cruise in Ohio - May 18, 2002
• Ohio High Court Voids Gay-Only Proposition Ban - May 17, 2002
• Law Barring Same-Sex Soliciting Tossed Out - May 16, 2002
• Ohio "Gay Flirting" Law Ruled Unconstitutional - May 16, 2002
• Ohio Supreme Court Overturns Anti-Gay Soliciting Law - May 15, 2002
• Sodomy Repeal May Have Led to Ohio’s Importuning Law - February 22, 2002
• High Court Ponders Importuning Law - February 8, 2002
• Empire Man Found Guilty in Rest Stop Incident - October 5, 2001
• Ohio Police’s Videotaping of Men’s Room Challenged - September 28, 2001
• One Man Challenges Police Videotaping in Restroom - September 28, 2001
• Ohio "Importuning" Law May Face State Supremes - May 4, 2001
• High Court Asked to Review Ohio’s Gay-Only Proposition Ban - May 4, 2001
• Lambda Urges Ohio Supreme Court to Strike Down Law Banning Same-Sex Flirting - May 1, 2001
• Park Law Entraps Gays, Critics Say - September 21, 1999
• Ohio Appeals Court Says Sexual Solicitations Weren’t Fighting Words - January 25, 1999
• Lane Avenue Shopping Mall Sting - October 12, 1995

Oklahoma

• Homophobic Pastor Acquitted of Gay Sex Charges - 365Gay.com, March 8, 2007
  A former Baptist minister who had spoken out against homosexuality was acquitted Wednesday of propositioning an undercover male police officer.
• Anti-Gay Pastor Has Constitutional Right to Pick Up Male Hustlers for Sex Lawyer Says - 365Gay.com, February 23, 2007
• ACLU Says Pastor's Gay Soliciting Charge Unconstitutional - 365Gay.com, February 1, 2006
• ACLU Argues Anti-Gay Pastor Bust Is Gay Rights Case - 365Gay.com, January 12, 2006
• Gay Activists Hail Supreme Court’s Sodomy Ruling - Daily Oklahoman, June 26, 2003
• Mayor Urging Change in City Banner Policy - July 11, 2001
• Oklahoma State Senator Files Libel Suit against Christian Coalition for Voter Guide - November 16, 2000
• Captain's Sodomy Appeal Targets Commander - May 25, 1998

Pennsylvania

• Candidate for U.S. Senate Embraces Same-Sex Marriage - November 13, 2003
• Minersville Case Victory for Gays - November 11, 2001

Puerto Rico

• Candidates: Will Protect Homosexuals, Not Gay Marriage - June 10, 2004
• Puerto Rican Evangelists Rally in Support of Sodomy Law - July 15, 2003
• Many Evangelists Protest Abolition of Sodomy Law - July 13, 2003
• Another Christian View of Puerto Rico’s Sodomy Law - July 11, 2003
• Puerto Rico Senate Votes to Kill Sodomy Law - June 25, 2003
• Puerto Rico Moves to Abolish Sodomy Law - June 24, 2003
• Puerto Ricans Rally in San Juan - The Data Lounge, June 4, 2003
• Religious Groups Threaten Lawmakers for Article 103 - Associated Press, May 30, 2003
• Puerto Rico Court Overturns Gay Rights Law - The Advocate, April 22, 2003
• Court Overturns Puerto Rico Gay Rights Law - 365Gay.com, April 21, 2003
• Gay-Rights Issues Bring Protesters to Streets - Orlando Sentinel, April 20, 2003
• Puerto Rico’s Sodomy Law Just “Tip of the Iceberg” - Puerto Rico’s Sodomy Law Just “Tip of the Iceberg” - The Gully, March 14, 2003
• Puerto Rico’s Law 103: A Colonial Imposition - The Gully, March 14, 2003
• Puerto Rico: Cultural Identity, Colonialism, and Sodomy Laws - July 2, 2002
• Puerto Rico Asked to Enforce Antigay Law - May 21, 2002
• Case Puts Focus on Gay Rights - May 14, 2001
• San Juan Prepares Review of Sodomy Law - February 22, 2001
• Puerto Rican Public and Courts Weigh Gay Rights with Unprecedented Legal Case and Political Action - February 21, 2001
• ACLU Takes First-Ever Gay Rights Case to Puerto Rico Supreme Court, Citing Cultural Emphasis on Privacy - August 11, 2000
• Puerto Rico High Court to Review Sodomy Law - August 11, 2000
• Puerto Rico OKs T* Birth Certificate - July 28, 2000
• Court Gives Gay-Rights (TV/TS/TG Rights) Activists Hope - July 17, 2000
• Puerto Rico Gay Legalization Sought - June 4, 2000
• Citing Threats, Intimidation and ‘Clear Danger’ to Citizens, ACLU Presses Forward to Repeal Puerto Rico’s Sodomy Law - May 22, 2000
• Puerto Rican Activists Stage Fast for Rights - September 9, 1999
• Puerto Rico Case Advances - March 9, 1999
• Citing "Chilling Effect" of Puerto Rico's Sodomy Law, Judge Says ACLU Challenge Must Go Forward - March 8, 1999
• ACLU v. Puerto Rico Sodomy Law - June 26, 1998
• Puerto Rico's Criminal Ban on Same-Gender Sex, "Crime Against Nature" Targeted by ACLU Lawsuit - June 22, 1998
• Puerto Rican activists "turn venom into medicine" - January 23, 1988

Rhode Island

• Rep. Edith H. Ajello the Raymond J. Pettine Civil Libertarian of the Year - Providence Journal, December 18, 2006
• ‘Why Here?’ - April 21, 2002
• Dangerous Liaison - April 16, 2002
• Mayor Cianci Names New Liaisons to Providence Community - February 28, 2002
• Media: A Double Standard on Misdemeanor Cases? - February 8-14, 2002
• Protest Surrounds Providence Journal Sex-Arrest Coverage - February 6, 2002
• Johnston Officials Defend ‘Sex-Act’ Arrests of 7 Men - January 27, 2002
• Gay Business Comfortable in R.I. - June 25, 2001
• Rhode Island Legislator Comes Out - March 15, 2001
• Officials Say Being Openly Gay Isn’t a Detriment - November 21, 1999
• RI Gov. Almond Wins Re-election - November 11, 1998
• Tavares Touts Bank Experience - November 4, 1998
• State Senate repeals 1896 sodomy law - June 3, 1998
• RI Senate Passes Sodomy Repeal - June 3, 1998
• Senate gives OK to law ending state sodomy ban - June 3, 1998
• Senate votes to repeal abominable and detestable law - June 2, 1998
• Rhode Island Legislature Votes To Repeal Sodomy Law - June 2, 1998
• Repeal Approved By Senate Judiciary Panel - May 22, 1998
• Rhode Island Moves to End Sodomy Ban - May 10, 1998
• House votes to repeal law against sex acts - May 8, 1998
• House votes to repeal law banning 'abominable' sex - May 8, 1998
• RI law unconstitutional - April 25, 1998
• Letter: Excessive laws - April 22, 1998
• Letter: Ajello vs. Public Health - April 18, 1998
• Legislature drafts bill to repeal oral-sex law - February 24, 1998
• Bedroom eyes - October 23, 1997
• RI Anti-Sodomy Law Upheld - June 24, 1995
• 100-Year-Old Sodomy Law Deemed Constitutional - June 22, 1995

South Carolina

• Sodomy Now Legal in S.C., Across U.S. - TheState.com, June 27, 2003
• U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down South Carolina’s Sodomy Law - Associated Press, June 26, 2003
• Gay Rights Group Challenges State Sodomy Law - March 19, 2003
• USC Sexual Orientation Policy Draws Fire - December 7, 2001
• USC Faculty Would Ban Sexual Orientation Bias - December 6, 2001

Tennessee

• Rhea County Voters Toss Out Commissioners Who Wanted to Criminalize Homosexuality - WBIR.com, August 7, 2006
  Voters in Rhea County have elected five new people to the County Commission and say a short-lived request for a ban on homosexuality was only one issue in the change.
• Voters Turf Out Commissioners Who Tried to Criminalize Gays - 365Gay.com, August 7, 2006
  Voters in rural Rhea County have turned their backs on five commissioners who voted to make homosexuality a criminal offense.
• Tennessee County that Voted to Bar Gays Seeks New Antigay Resolution - June 15, 2004
• Tennessee County That Wanted to Jail Gays Takes up New Anti-Gay Measure - June 14, 2004
• Rhea Working on New Resolution on Gay Marriage - June 13, 2004
• Rhea County Commission to Consider Gay Marriage Ban Again - June 10, 2004
• Politicians Tried to Define Rhea County by Banning Gays, but their Definition Didn’t Match Reality - May 20, 2004
• County that Wanted to Jail Gays Holds First Pride - May 9, 2004
• Gay Day, Provoked by Tennessee County’s Gay Ban, Helps Woman End Her Secrecy - May 8, 2004
• Gay Rights Rally Protests Tennessee County Ban - May 8, 2004
• Gays Trickle into Rhea County - May 8, 2004
• Many Rhea County Residents Unhappy with Protests - May 7, 2004
• Pastors Condemn Homosexuality on Eve of Rhea Co. “Gay Day” - May 7, 2004
• Tennessee Town in Uproar Over Gays - May 6, 2004
• Scopes Trial Site Hosts Gay Rights Fight - May 5, 2004
• Gay Rights Battle Focuses on Dayton, Tennessee - May 5, 2004
• Thousands of Gays Expected in Rhea County on Saturday - May 3, 2004
• Vote on Gays Brings Dayton New Infamy - May 2, 2004
• Rhea Gay Day Organizer Says Event to Boost Dayton Economy - April 18, 2004
• Organizer Expects Gay Day Permit for Rhea County - April 14, 2004
• Gay Pride Event Planned in Rhea County - April 13, 2004
• In South, Issue of Gay Marriage Exposes Hate and Fear - April 8, 2004
• Community that Tried to Imprison Gays to Get a Taste of Rainbow Pride - March 24, 2004
• Could Be Prejudice, Could Be for Economic Development - March 20, 2004
• Tennessee County Reverses Gay Ban - March 20, 2004
• Tennessee County Backtracks on Jailing Gays - March 19, 2004
• Tennessee County Rescinds Anti-Gay Motion - March 19, 2004
• Rhea Commissioners Rescind Anti-Gay Proposal - March 19, 2004
• Tennessee County Retreats From Gay Ban - March 19, 2004
• Tennessee County Backtracks on Jailing Gays - March 19, 2004
• Second Thoughts in Monkey County - March 18, 2004
• Tennessee County Seeks to Bar Gays - March 18, 2004
• East Tennessee County Commission Votes to Target Gays - March 18, 2004
• Tennessee County Wants to Ban Gays - March 17, 2004
• Tennessee County Wants to Charge Homosexuals - March 17, 2004

Texas

• Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Texas Sex-Toy Case - by The Associated Press in 365Gay, October 2, 2006
  The Supreme Court refused Monday to consider whether a Texas law making it a crime to promote sex toys shaped like sexual organs is unconstitutional.
• Kiss and Tell - PrideSource, February 3, 2005
• Texas Officer Suspended for Comment to Gay Couple - December 11, 2004
• Texas Lawman Suspended Over Gay Kiss - December 11, 2004
• A Capitol Kiss Controversy - October 19, 2004
• State Republicans Obsessed with God and Gays - August 12, 2004
• Lawyer Life After ‘Lawrence’ - July 28, 2003
• Texans React to Sodomy Ruling - Dallas Morning News, June 27, 2003
• Men Whose Sodomy Case Led to Supreme Court Ruling Keep Low Profile - Dallas Morning News, June 27, 2003
• San Antonio Gay Community Reacts to Supreme Court Decision - News9, June 26, 2003
• Texas Prosecutor Says Court Should Have Let Texas Decide - Associated Press, June 26, 2003
• Texas Governor Will Abide by Supreme Court Ruling - Dallas Morning News, June 26, 2003
• Local Reactions to Court Ruling - June 26, 2003
• University of Texas-Austin Student Body Condemns Texas Sodomy Law - January 16, 2003
• Resolution Calls for Repeal of Sodomy Law - January 15, 2003
• AR 20. Calling for the State of Texas to repeal the Homosexual Conduct Law (Section 21.06) - January 14, 2003
• UT-Austin Students to Debate Texas Sodomy Law Resolution - January 9, 2003
• Police Find 17 Sex Toys in Local Woman’s Car During DUI Traffic Stop - Longview News-Journal, November 21, 2002
• Court May Review Texas Sodomy Law - November 3, 2002
• Kirk, Cornyn Differ on Issues Facing Gays - September 14, 2002
• Texas Sodomy Case on Firm Legal Ground - July 23, 2002
• Texas Ban on Gay Sex Faces New Legal Fight - July 22, 2002
• Senate District Strikes Anti-Gay Language from State GOP Platform Recommendation - April 19, 2002
• Court Upholds Sodomy Ban in Refusing to Hear Appeal - April 19, 2002
• Texas Sodomy Law May Face Supreme Court - April 19, 2002
• Texas Sodomy Case May Go to Supreme Court - April 19, 2002
• Sodomy Appeal May Go to Supreme Court - April 18, 2002
• Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Gay Defendant in Park Sting Arrest - August 10, 2001
• Anti-Discrimination Proposal Doesn’t Protect Illegal Actions - July 3, 2001
• Texas Committee Approves Sodomy Repeal - April 20, 2001
• Legislature Likely to Take Up Sodomy Law Again - April 19, 2001
• Sodomy Case Goes to Highest Texas Court - April 13, 2001
• Two Men Continue Fight to Overturn Texas Anti-Gay Law - March 16, 2001
• Texas Court Upholds Conviction of Two Men for Consensual Sex at Home - March 16, 2001
• Court Upholds Texas Sodomy Ban - March 16, 2001
• Texas Court Upholds Conviction of Two Men for Consensual Sex at Home - March 15, 2001
• Texas Court Upholds Sodomy Law - March 15, 2001
• Appeals Court Upholds Texas Sodomy Law - March 15, 2001
• Texas Court Upholds Conviction of Two Men for Consensual Sex at Home: Lambda Promises to Appeal - March 15, 2001
• Protestors Ultimately Want Death for Homosexuals - March 2, 2001
• Texas Judge Who Opposed State Sodomy Law Is Retiring - February 6, 2001
• Two Bills and a Court Ruling Pending in Texas - January 30, 2001
• Texas Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Strike Down Sodomy Law - January 23, 2001
• Texas Rep. Danburg Files Bill Seeking Sodomy Law’s Removal - January 20, 2001
• Pioneering Dallas Gay-Rights Activist Donald Baker Dies - December 2, 2000
• Obituaries In The News: Donald Baker - December 2, 2000
• GOPers Defend Anti-Sodomy Letter - October 6 to October 12, 2000
• Texas Sodomy Law Challenge Update - September 22, 2000
• Is It Curtains for the 140-Year-Old Sodomy Statute? - August 11, 2000
• Texas GOP Plan to Bend Sodomy Judge - July 19, 2000
• Texas Republicans Target One of Their Own - July 3, 2000
• Challenging Conventional Wisdom: An Independence Day Look at GLBT Involvement in State and National Party Conventions - June 30- July 6, 2000
• Surprising Start Made in Challenge of Gay Ruling - June 28, 2000
• Delay Could Help Gay-Rights Forces Fight Sodomy Law in Court - June 10, 2000
• Appeals Court Rejects State’s Sodomy Law - June 9, 2000
• Texas Sodomy Law Struck Down - June 8, 2000
• Texas Court Rules Against State’s Ban on Gay Sex - June 8, 2000
• Sodomy Law Ruled Unconstitutional - June 8, 2000
• Anti-Sodomy Law Challenged - November 9, 1999
• Court Hears Challenge to Texas Sodomy Law - November 5, 1999
• Conduct Law Unfair To Gays, Attorney Says - November 4, 1999
• Texas Court Won’t Bar Adoptions - June 23, 1999
• Attorneys In Sodomy Case Awaiting State’s Strategy - June 18, 1999
• Texans’ Opinions On Gays Surveyed - May 10, 1999
• Gays’ Role In Parenting Debated - May 4, 1999
• Group Asks Judge To Halt Gay, Lesbian Adoptions - May 4, 1999
• Preacher: Protest Attendance Uncertain - March 9, 1999
• Bills Aim To Bar Adoption By Gays - February 13, 1999
• Bills Aim to Bar Adoption by Gays - February 12, 1999
• Plan To Ban Anti-Gay Bias In Fort Worth Dies - January 20, 1999
• Letter: Adoption Proposal Invasion of Privacy - January 11, 1999
• New Texas Legislation Targets Gay Foster Parents, Sodomy - January 2, 1999
• Two Men Accused Of Violating Texas Sodomy Laws File New Appeals - December 22, 1998
• Bill Would Ban Gay Texans From Adopting Children - December 10, 1998
• Legal Assaults Against States’ Anti-Sodomy Laws Multiply - December 3, 1998
• Arrests Will Put Sodomy Law on Trial - December 2, 1998
• Texas Sodomy Arrest Opens Legal Battle for Gay Activists - November 29, 1998
• Gay Rights Effort May Be Tabled - November 25, 1998
• Georgia court's ruling bolsters sodomy case - November 24, 1998
• Texas Men Post Bonds, Challenge State's Sodomy Law - November 20, 1998
• No Contest Plea in Texas Sodomy Case - November 20, 1998
• Two Texas Men Challenge State's Ban On Gay Sex - November 18, 1998
• Activists Back Challenge To Texas Anti-Gay Laws - November 17, 1998
• Houston Men Arrested Under Texas Sodomy Law - November 9, 1998
• No Locks On The Bedroom Door: Sodomy Laws Carry a Skeleton Key in Texas - November 9, 1998
• Houston case may test sodomy law Lawyer says his clients' privacy invaded - November 7, 19998
• Texas Sex Bust Sparks Challenge - November 7, 1998
• Two Men Charged Under State's Sodomy Law - November 5, 1998
• Wichita Falls, TX: Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy’s Roommate - October 14, 1998
• Worker who removed foster child from lesbian couple's care sues CPS - September 2, 1998
• Texas GOP Locks Out Log Cabin Gays - June 5, 1998
• More Bad News Gospel - May 27, 1998
• Letter: Homosexual foster parents - January 8, 1998
• Money Needed for the Sodomy Case in Texas - June 1970
• Federal Court Strikes Down Sodomy Statute - February 1970

Utah

• Trio Uses Supreme Court Gay Ruling In Polygamy Case - The Associated Press in 365Gay.com, September 26, 2006
  A Utah couple and a woman who wants to become the second wife in their family are asking a Denver-based federal appeals court to overturn Utah's ban on polygamy, saying it violates their rights to religion, association and privacy.
• The History of Gay Hate Crimes - Salt Lake Metro, February 23, 2005
• Polygamy Ban Upheld - Focus on the Family (extremist anti-gay organization), February 18, 2005
• Judge Upholds Ban on Polygamous Marriage - The Associated Press (as published in AZ Central.com), February 17, 2005
• Judge Upholds Ban on Polygamous Marriage - The Associated Press (as printed in the Washington Post), February 17, 2005
• Judge Dismisses Challenge to Utah Ban on Polygamy - Deseret News (Mormon owned), February 17, 2005
• Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Case Against Fornication Law - October 1, 2004
• Lawsuit Uses Repeal of Sodomy Laws to Support Utah Polygamy - August 6, 2004
• Polygamist Seeks Protection Under Lawrence Ruling - December 3, 2003
• Utah Polygamist Invokes Ruling on Gay Sex - December 2, 2003
• Polygamist’s Appeal Based on Supreme Court Gay Ruling - December 2, 2003
• Utah’s Bigamy Ban Challenged - October 20, 2003
• Challenge to Utah’s Anti-Sodomy Law Tossed - October 7, 2003
• Bigamist Appeals Conviction Using Sodomy Ruling Defense - August 19, 2003
• Lesbian Couple Challenging Gay Adoption Ban in Utah - July 7, 2003
• Lesbian Couple Uses Supreme Court Ruling to Fight Adoption Ban - July 7, 2003
• Implications of the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Sodomy - June 29, 2003
• Supreme Court Decision Nullifies Utah’s Sodomy Law - KSL-TV, June 26, 2003
• Shurtleff Stands Behind His Support of Antisodomy Law - Salt Lake Tribune, May 3, 2003
• Utah Sect Leader Criticizes Santorum - Associated Press, April 24, 2003
• Hatch: ‘I’m Not Here to Justify Polygamy’ - The Salt Lake Tribune, April 19, 2003
• Gay Schoolteacher Cheers Court Ruling - Deseret News (Mormon owned), April 5, 2003
• High Court Awards Round to Teacher - The Salt Lake Tribune, April 5, 2003
• Utah Court Rules in Favor of Lesbian Teacher - Associated Press, April 5, 2003
• Utah’s Top Court Sides with Lesbian Teacher - The Advocate, April 5, 2003
• Court Rejects Gay Morals Case - 365Gay.com, April 4, 2003
• Lesbian Teacher Wins Utah Court Ruling - Washington Post, April 3, 2004
• Owner Says ‘Lifestyle’ Cost Club Its License - January 1, 2003
• Utah Supreme Court to Hear Case Against Lesbian Teacher - March 14, 2002
• Utah Man Fights Sodomy Charge - July 10, 2001
• Brigham Young University Suspends Gay Students - March 30, 2001
• Adoption Law Faces Legal Tests - March 17, 2000
• Group Bashes WSU ‘Gay Service’ Scholarship - March 11, 2000
• Will DCFS Become Bedroom Peeper? - March 4, 2000
• Gay Issues Come To The Forefront In Heavily Mormon State - December 18, 1998
• Judge Rules for Lesbian Teacher - November 25, 1998
• Gay Political Hopeful Faces Fire - October 4, 1998
• Ruzicka Chastises Lesbian Candidate for ‘Illegal Lifestyle’ - September 16, 1998

Vermont

• ‘DOMA’ Pulled in Vermont - March 9, 2001

Virginia

• Gay, Lesbian Group Honors Controversial Jamestown Figure - The Virginian-Pilot, March 12, 2007
  Records don't show whether Richard Cornish felt like a martyr almost 400 years ago as he stood on a Jamestown gallows with a rope around his neck. But he was adopted as one by the William and Mary Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association. GALA and a number of activists and historians recognize Cornish as the first man prosecuted and executed for homosexuality in the British North American colonies.
• Appeals Court Upholds Conviction in Va. Beach Sodomy Case - Virginian Pilot, November 8, 2005
• Virginia's Appeals Court Upholds Oral Sex Statute, Washington Times, November 8, 2005
• Appeals Court Upholds Virginia Sodomy Law - 365Gay.com, November 8, 2005
• Low Court, High Principles - The Cavalier Daily, February 28, 2005
• Obituary: Robert Merhige, Jr. - Associated Press, February 19, 2005
• Gay Marriage Bills Pass House, Senate - Connection Newspapers, February 17, 2005
• Legislating Morality in the Land of the Free - National Post, February 12, 2005
• Engrossing Tales of the Enslaved - The Baltimore Sun, February 9, 2005
• Gay Marriage Amendment Compared to Nazism - 365Gay.com, February 7, 2005
• Gay Father Appeals Custody Ruling - Washington Post, February 3, 2005
• Gay Father Fights Antigay Custody Restriction - The Advocate, February 2, 2005
• Ouster of Gay Partner ‘Negative’ - Associated Press, January 31, 2005
• Appeal in Case of Gay Couple Ordered to Split Up Over Child - 365Gay.com, January 31, 2005
• Gay Pair Appeals Order to Split Over Child - Gay.com, January 31, 2005
• NCLR and Lambda Legal File Appeal on Behalf of Gay Dad in Maryland Custody Case - NCLR and Lambda Legal, January 31, 2005
• Jagdmann Breezes to Likely Approval as Attorney General - Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 27, 2005
• The Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down the State’s Fornication Law, Indicating that Other States’ Antiquated Laws Will Fall if Challenged - Findlaw.com, January 25, 2005
• Virginia Sex Law Struck Down - Gay City News, January 20, 2005
• Virginia Court Strikes Down Unmarried Sex Law - The Advocate, January 15, 2005
• Virginia: Court: Fornication Law Unconstitutional - Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 14, 2005
• Virginia Court Strikes Down Singles Sex Law - The Associated Press, January 14, 2005
• Sending Them PAC-ing - Augusta Free Press, January 14, 2005
• Whose Values? Lefty PAC Fights for Families - The Hook, January 13, 2005
• Virginians Form Family Values PAC - Virginia Family Values PAC, January 9, 2005
• Virginia Adultery Case Goes from Notable to Nonevent - August 25, 2004
• Virginia Man Challenges Antisodomy Law - July 14, 2004
• Virginia Sodomy Law Challenged - July 13, 2004
• Suit Challenges Virginia Sodomy Law - July 9, 2004
• Lambda Legal Will Appeal the Solicitation of Sodomy Conviction of Virginia Beach Man Monday - July 9, 2004
• Senate Delays Ruling on Sodomy - March 9, 2003
• Virginia Man Sentenced to Six Months in Jail for Soliciting Sodomy - February 18, 2004
• Virginia Eases Sodomy Ban but Keeps it on the Books - January 15, 2004
• Virginia Eyes New Sodomy Law - January 14, 2004
• Virginia Crime Panel Backs Dual Strategy on Sodomy Law - January 14, 2004
• City Urges Richmond to End Same-Sex Discrimination - January 8, 2004
• Virginia Continues to Prosecute Gay Men for Sodomy - December 12, 2003
• Virginia Hesitates on Sodomy Repeal - December 7, 2003
• Keep Sodomy Ban, Commission Says - December 5, 2003
• Darner Urges Caution in Tinkering with Sex Laws - December 4, 2003
• Panel Urges Virginia to Keep Sodomy Ban - December 4, 2003
• Virginia Adultery Case Roils Divorce Industry - December 1, 2003
• Virginia Crime Commission Needs to Hear From You! - November 11, 2003
• Sodomy Case Can Proceed, Judge Says - October 30, 2003
• Lambda Legal Helps Defend Virginia Man Against Rogue Sodomy Prosecution - October 29, 2003
• Commission Bringing Laws into 21st Century - October 11, 2003
• Gay Killer Charged with Being Peeping Tom in Public Bathroom - September 21, 2003
• Virginia Sting Operations Challenged - August 20, 2003
• Virginia Pursues Sodomy Charges Despite Supreme Court Ruling - August 20, 2003
• Virginia to Try 26 for Sodomy Despite Supreme Court - August 19, 2003
• Sodomy Charges Set to Be Pursued - August 19, 2003
• Sodomy Law Ruling Sparks Virginia Debate - August 18, 2003
• Lawyer Uses Texas Case to Challenge Virginia Sodomy Law - August 14, 2003
• Panel: Strike Sodomy Statutes - July 17, 2003
• Sodomy Ruling Might Not Alter Much in Virginia - July 6, 2003
• Resistance in Tradition of Virginia - July 6, 2003
• The Ghosts of Jamestown - New York Times, July 3, 2003
• Virginia “Crimes Against Nature” Law Struck Down? - Connections Newspapers, July 1, 2003
• Virginia Among 13 States Affected By Sodomy Decision - NBC4.com, June 26, 2003
• Virginia GOP Denies Askew Seat - January 27, 2003
• Judge Hearing Stirs Backlash - January 21, 2003
• Warner, Kaine Attend Gay-Rights Reception - January 20, 2003
• Judge Selection Takes on Sexual Tones - January 17, 2003
• Being Gay Could Disqualify Judges Virginia Lawmaker Says - January 16, 2003
• Virginia Sodomy Law Invoked to Block Judge’s Reappointment - January 16, 2003
• In Virginia, Fears of a Judicial Litmus Test - January 16, 2003
• Sodomy Law Bedevils Virginia Confirmation - January 15, 2003
• Sex Life May Be Used Against Judges - January 15, 2003
• Gay Sex in Park ‘Worse’ Despite Arrests - November 25, 2002
• Virginia Park now Taken Over by Gay Sex - October 1, 2002
• Lesbian Wins Virginia Assurances in Adoption Attempt - August 15, 2002
• Conservatives See Fisette Appointment as a Threat - July 11, 2002
• Virginia Officials Deny Discrimination in Adoption Case - June 4, 2002
• Virginia Senate Committee Kills Sex Ed Bill - February 15, 2002
• Bill Would Ban Discussion of Gays - February 8, 2002
• Log Cabin Republicans Launch Campaign to Reform Virginia Sodomy Statute - January 24, 2002
• Bill Bans ‘Crimes’ in Sex Education - January 14, 2002
• Gay Virginians Meet with Mark Warner - January 11, 2002
• Stiff Penalty: Local Legislators Find Repealing an Old Law Hard to Swallow - December 18-24, 2001
• Log Cabin Republicans of Virginia Endorse Sodomy Law Repeal, Government Employment Anti-discrimination Measure - December 13, 2001
• Stinging: Staunton Officials Don’t Like Sodomy - November 6-12, 2001
• Virginia’s Gay Vortex - November 2, 2001
• Gay-Baiting Enters Virginia Race - September 7, 2001 [Republicans support sodomy law, Democrats don't want to talk about it.]
• Virginia Sodomy Case Loses Final Appeal - August 17, 2001
• Virginia Politicians Face Off Over the Legal Rights of Gay Partners - July 31, 2001
• Police Raid Dominatrix’s Residence - July 17, 2001
• Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Sodomy Law - June 15, 2001
• Virginia Sodomy Appeal Declined - June 8, 2001
• Attorney Vows to Petition for a Rehearing by The Full Court - June 6, 2001
• Straight Man Joining Challenge to Virginia Sodomy Law - March 6, 2001
• Lawyer: Link Wasena Park Case with Heterosexual Oral Sex Case - March 2, 2001
• Lawyer Expands Sodomy-Law Challenge With Straight Couple - March 2, 2001
• Sodomy Laws Debated - February 8, 2001
• The Moral Opposition - February 4, 2001
• Most in Virginia Oppose Law - February 2, 2001
• Virginia Activists Try a New Approach - January 26, 2001
• Virginia House Panel: No Sodomy Reform - January 23, 2001
• House Panel Votes to Keep Law Against Sodomy - January 20, 2001
• Virginia Appellate Court Upholds Sodomy Convictions - November 27, 2000
• Virginia Sodomy Sting Challenge Fails - November 27, 2000
• Virginia Upholds Sodomy Law - November 23, 2000
• Virginian Court Upholds Sodomy Convictions - November 22, 2000
• 10 Wasena Park Defendants Had Argued Law Violated Privacy of All Virginians - November 22, 2000
• Appeals Court Rules Against Change in Sodomy Law - November 22, 2000
• Gay Rights Activist to Speak Here - November 15, 2000
• Virginia Sodomy Law Challenged - October 10, 2000
• Virgina Sodomy Law Challenged - September 15, 2000
• State Says Law Must Be Viewed in Context of Curbing ‘Cruising’ - September 13, 2000
• Appeal of Virginia Sodomy Law Argued - September 12, 2000
• Virginia Court Hears Sodomy Law Challenge - September 11, 2000
• 10 Men Appealed Convictions in Wasena Park Cases - September 10, 2000
• Friend of Court Briefs Accepted - September 1, 2000
• Board Votes to Change Discrimination Policies - August 4, 2000
• Sodomy Case Heads Toward Resolution - July 21, 2000
• Virginia Attorney General Says Sodomy Always Illegal - July 1-3, 2000
• Virginia Law Says Sodomy Is Always Illegal - June 29, 2000
• ‘Log Cabin Republicans’ Show Strength in Northern Virginia GOP - June 29, 2000
• Gay Republicans Add Voice to Challenge Virginia Sodomy Law - June 9, 2000
• ACLU Challenges Virginia’s "Crimes Against Nature" Sodomy Law - May 31, 2000
• Virginia’s Attorney General Blocks ‘Friends of The Court’ Briefs - May 25, 2000
• City Council Rejects Gay-Rights Policy - May 10, 2000
• Virginia Court Hears Sodomy Appeal - April 7, 2000
• Va. Senate Nixes Change To Sodomy Law - February 26-28, 2000
• Virginia Panel Kills Sodomy Reform - February 25, 2000
• Virginia Sodomy Bill Defeated - February 25, 2000
• Senate Committee Kills Proposal to Lower Penalties - February 24, 2000
• Senate Panel Kills Cutting Penalties For Sex-Law Violations - February 24, 2000
• Virgina House Oks Sodomy Bill - February 18, 2000
• VA House OKs Sodomy Reform - February 17, 2000
• Virginia May Lighten Sodomy Restrictions - February 16, 2000
• VA House Committee OK’s Sodomy Reform Bill - February 15, 2000
• Sodomy Bill Endorsed House Gives Tentative OK To Lessen Penalties   - February 15, 2000
• Bill Would Alter State Sex Law - February 14, 2000
• We Have Very Little to Lose by Trying - February 4, 2000
• Virginia May Lighten Sodomy Restrictions - January 16, 2000
• Virginia Sodomy Challenge May Expand - January 7, 2000
• Virginia Panel Mulls Sodomy - December 24, 1999
• Appeals Court to Review Sodomy Law Case Stems From Arrests of Men in a Roanoke Park - December 15, 1999
• Whatever Happened To . . . The Lesbian Mother Who Lost Custody Of Her Son? - November 29, 1999
• Lobby Issues More Complete Guide On Gay-Rights Issues - October 28, 1999
• Virginia’s Sodomy Ban Is OK With Most Candidates - October 27, 1999
• Charges Dropped In Roanoke Solicitation Cases - October 1, 1999
• Fractured State Works To Unite Gay Activist Forces - October 1, 1999
• Charges Dropped In 2 Park Sex Cases - September 24, 1999
• Man Acquitted In Virginia Sodomy Case - September 10, 1999
• Residents' complaints sparked police sting in Roanoke's Wasena Park - September 8, 1999
• 18 Arrested In Wasena Park Sting Man's Offer To Officer Gets Him 60 Days - August 10, 1999
• Man Sues City Over AIDS Postcard - July 3, 1999
• Cruiser Showdown in Virginia - June 23, 1999
• Attorney Taking On Sodomy Law - June 13, 1999
• Roanoke, VA Defendants Plead - June 11, 1999
• Eight Men Convicted of Felony Sodomy - June 10, 1999
• 3 More Men Plead Guilty To Seeking Sex In Park - June 10, 1999
• Activist Presents Immodest Proposal - May 21, 1999
• Gay Man Propositions Four Virginia Officials To Challenge Sodomy Law - May 21, 1999
• State's Anti-Sodomy Law Used To Prosecute Men Accused Of Seeking Sex In Roanoke Parks - May 4, 1999
• Roanoke Judge Hopes To Rule Soon On Constitutionality Of Anti-Sodomy Law - March 2, 1999
• 18th Defendant Bases Arguments On Privacy - January 15, 1999
• Sodomy Showdown Heats Up In Virginia - January 13, 1999
• Column: The Radio Listener - January 12, 1999
• An Indecent Proposal? - January 1, 1999
• Gay Cruising Prosecuted as Felony in Roanoke, Va. - November 24, 1998
• The Law 'Is Only Used To Persecute Gay People,' Says Gay Rights Supporter - November 22, 1998
• Police Use Sodomy Laws In Prostitution Sting - July 20, 1998
• Same-Sex Marriage Proposal Voted Down - The Washington Post, December 15, 1996
• Fighting For Tyler: A Lesbian Loses Her Son - To Her Own Mother - September 27, 1993

Washington

• From Fear to Dignity: 2 Gay Men, 2 Journeys - June 29, 2003
• Sodom And Seattle - June 26, 2003

Wisconsin

• Gay Rights Case Stirring Local Interest - March 27, 2003

Wackos

• U.S. Senate Candidate Wants Death Penalty for Homosexuals - WTOL, March 7, 2006
• Judge Calls Lawrence Case Setup - World Net Daily [Extreme Right Wing], October 27, 2005
• How Staged Sex Crime Fooled Supreme Court - World Net Daily [Extreme Right Wing], October 24, 2005
• Who Is ‘Queering’ America and Why? - Linda Kimball on the wacko-radical www.MichNews.com, April 22, 2005
• God Help Our Children’s Children - Michael Leigh letter in The Jamaica Observer, February 27, 2005
• Decriminalising Homosexuality Will Make Situation Worse - Carol Marshall in the Barbados Advocate, February 15, 2005
• Troubled by Same Sex Marriage? - Bishop Fred Henry in the Western Catholic Reporter, January 17, 2005
• Bill on [Censoring] Gay Material Not Intended as Censorship - Gerald Allen in Montgomery Advertiser, December 24, 2004
• Launch a Jihad Against [People with] AIDS - Firoz Osman in Media Monitors Network, December 1, 2004
• Sodom Old, Sodom New - Johnny D. Symon, October 17, 2004
• Society’s Not in a Gay Mood - By Dominic Emmanuel, spokesman of the Delhi Catholic Archdiocese, in the Express India, September 30, 2004
• Demands Won’t Stop - William J. Bynum in The Columbian, June 28, 2004
• ‘Mugabe’s Spokesman is Gay’ - June 23, 2004
• Gays Rights ‘Leads to Obesity’ - May 28, 2004
• Gay’s Consecration Raises Questions - Fielding G. Lucas in the Hendersonville Times-News, October 25, 2003
• Supreme Court Sodomy Decision Based on Junk Science - Traditional Values Coalition [a hate group], August 22, 2003
• Who Dares Believe Liberals This Time? - John George in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 24, 2003
• Court Has Put U.S. on Slippery Slope - Mark Rich in the Hendersonville Times-News, July 24, 2003
• Homosexuality is Sin - Bobbie Ann Thompson in the Omaha World Herald, July 14, 2003
• The states don’t have equal rights anymore! - Esther Mason in the Wichita Eagle, July 13, 2003
• Letter: From Public-Health Standpoint, Sodomy Laws Make Sense - Carrie Tyer in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, July 13, 2003
• Court Decision Ignores God’s Will, Good of All - James F. Dunn in the Newport Daily News, July 12-13, 2003
• Justices Impose Secular Humanism - James P. Ward in the Wilmington News-Journal, July 10, 2003
• Courts Lead Us to Sodom, Gomorrah - Paul A. Jacobs in Birmingham News, July 10, 2003
• Legislating Immorality - Marlys Gilbert in the Modesto Bee, July 9, 2003
• Take it Inside - Richard O’Brien in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, July 7, 2003
• How to Derail Gay Marriage: Put Polygamy on Fast Track - Bernadette Malone in The Union Leader, July 6, 2003
• Moral Slide Continues - Gene Dougherty in the Omaha World-Herald, July 4, 2003
• Morality vs. Privacy Central Louisiana Divided Over Court Ruling on Gay Sex - June 28, 2003
• Editorial: Law, Liberty and License - Cal Thomas, March 28, 2003
• Preserve Marriage—Punish Sodomy - March 20, 2003
• Letter: Concern About Camp - February 13, 2003
• Letter: Gay Comic Not Funny - December 27, 2002
• Letter: Grave Sin - June 2, 2002
• Brand New War for the Army of God? - February 19, 2002
• Missouri: Letter: Blown Call - December 21, 2001
• Letter: Laws Against Gays Based on Bible - September 30, 2001
• Repealing Sodomy Laws Undercuts Marriage, Observers Say - July 9, 2001
• Letter: This Can Be Stopped - May 4, 2001
• Sodomy Is a Crime - April 11, 2001
• Protestors Ultimately Want Death for Homosexuals - March 2, 2001
• Mississippi Gay Lobby Calls for an Investigation into the Mississippi Based American Family Association and Donald Wildmon - August 2, 2000
• AFA Calls for Kolbe’s Arrest on Sodomy Charges - August 1, 2000
• GOP Right to Kolbe: "Hands Up" - August 1, 2000
• Calls for Arrest of Openly-Gay GOP Convention Speaker Reveal Danger of Sodomy Laws Nationwide, ACLU Says - July 31, 2000
• Arrest Gay Congressman, Far Right Says - July 29, 2000
• Arrest Mr. Kolbe - American Family Association Action Alert - July 28, 2000
• Editorial: Ed Board Takes Sensible Course On IPTV Content - Idaho Press-Tribune, July 10, 2000
• Pro-Life Priest: 'Religious Leaders Must Defend Sacrament of Marriage! Sodomy Is a Sin!' -  January 4, 2000
• Montgomery OKs Benefits for Same-Sex Partners - November 30, 1999
• Homophobia on the San Antonio Police Force, Don't Call this Cop for Help - December 1998
• Anti-Gay AD Campaigner Supports Sodomy Laws - August 6, 1998
• Do "Unnatural" Acts Cause Natural Disasters? - July 16, 1998

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