HIST213
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Lawrence v. Texas
History
School of Arts and Sciences
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Active
Subject code
HIST
Course Number
213
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Description
Examines the 2003 US Supreme Court decision that found laws criminalizing private consensual sodomy unconstitutional and the impact of historical scholarship in this landmark decision. In addition to an in-depth examination of the case, topics include the history of sodomy laws, origins of the LGBT movement, the Lavender Scare of the 1950s, and the constitutional theories of liberty and privacy that formed the basis for the Court’s opinion.
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