NCJ Number
188214
Date Published
1997
Length
970 pages
Annotation
This volume presents and discusses laws and judicial decisions involving homosexuality and provides background information about sexual orientation.
Abstract
The first chapter presents basic documents about sexuality written by Alfred Kinsey and others; sexual identity and the history of government responses to homosexuals; the perspectives of religion, psychiatry, and philosophy; and theories of other authors. The second chapter discuses laws, litigation, and judicial decisions related to sodomy; examines legislative debates and the Model Penal Code; discusses constitutional litigation and the case of Bowers v. Hardwick; discusses scholarship and other issues since the Hardwick decision. Additional chapters discusses legal issues related to sexual identity during high school, during college, and in social and political life. The fourth chapter focuses on the workplace and provides background information and analyses of judicial decisions related to private employment, public employment, and the equal protection clause of the Constitution. The final two chapters examine marriage, nonmarital forms of recognition, and homosexuals as parents. Index and list of cases