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050 0 0 _aKF224.L39
_bC37 2012
082 0 0 _a342.73 CAR
100 1 _aCarpenter, Dale
_d, 1967-
245 1 0 _aFlagrant conduct
_b: the story of Lawrence v. Texas : how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans
_c/ Dale Carpenter
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York
_b: W.W. Norton
_c, c2012.
300 _axv, 345 p., [8] p. of plates
_b: ill.
_c; 25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]-327) and index.
505 0 _aA crime of deep malignity -- The city and the cause -- The defendants and the troublemaker -- The department and the deputies -- The intrusion -- Uncivil disobedience -- A probable explanation for an improbable case -- The homosexual status law -- From the jail to the bar -- From the gay bar to the bar -- Into the Texas courts -- The constitutional case takes shape -- The politics of law -- The constitutional mainstream -- Mismatch at the Supreme Court -- Respect for their private lives.
520 _aProvides a detailed legal history and examines the motives of all players involved with the landmark Supreme Court gay rights case that protected consenting adults' rights, regardless of sexual preference, in the bedroom.
600 1 0 _aLawrence, John Geddes
_x--Trials, litigation, etc.
650 0 _aTrials (Sodomy)
_z--Texas
650 0 _aHomosexuality
_x--History.
650 0 _aGays
_x--History
651 4 _aTexas
_x-History
942 _cMO
999 _c269827
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