A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as crimes. The precise sexual acts meant by the term sodomy are rarely spelled out in the law, but...
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The United States has inherited sodomy laws which constitutionally outlawed a variety of sexual acts that are deemed to be illegal, illicit, unlawful...
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term sodomy, which is derived from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Book of Genesis, was commonly restricted to homosexual anal sex. Sodomy laws in...
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seen as evidence of a "sodomy-law reform wave." During the same period, however, eight countries expanded their laws regarding sodomy. In January 2014, Nigeria...
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LGBT rights by country or territory (redirect from Homosexuality and law)
transgender people laws related to sexual orientation and military service laws concerning access to assisted reproductive technology sodomy laws that penalize...
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Lawrence v. Texas (category 2003 in United States case law)
the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional. The Court reaffirmed...
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Female sodomy is distinct from the social and legal category of (male) sodomy due to the significant differences in the way women accused of sodomy were...
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LGBT rights in Nevada (section Hate crime law)
courts convicted multiple people of sodomy, almost consistently upheld by higher courts, and a challenge to the sodomy law on the grounds of vagueness and...
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LGBT rights in the United Kingdom (redirect from Sodomy laws in England)
which was pioneered by Henry VIII. The Act was the country's first civil sodomy law, such offences having previously been dealt with by the ecclesiastical...
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retroactively named ugly laws. These laws targeted poor people and disabled people. For instance, in San Francisco a law of 1867 deemed it illegal for...
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LGBT rights in Minnesota (section Sodomy law repeal)
Pierce ruled that the sodomy law violated the State Constitution when dealing with private, adult, consensual, and non-commercial sodomy. The ruling was later...
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The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation...
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Abby Rubenfeld (category Boston University School of Law alumni)
challenged Tennessee's "Homosexual Practices Acts" law, which criminalized sodomy. The sodomy law was overturned in 1996. In 2013, she organized a group...
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LGBT rights in the United States (redirect from LGBT law in the United States)
Court, which invalidated state laws banning protected class recognition based upon homosexuality, struck down sodomy laws nationwide, struck down Section...
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Bowers v. Hardwick (category 1986 in United States case law)
Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did...
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then-pending U.S. Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, which challenged a Texas sodomy law, and said that "he did not have a problem with homosexuals, but a problem...
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petition calling for the repeal of Utah's existing sodomy law. Reportedly, Utah's existing sodomy law prohibits oral sex, anal sex, and the rusty trombone...
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Human sexual activity (section Same-sex laws)
influence on social policy, marriage laws serve the purpose of encouraging people to have sex only within marriage. Sodomy laws have been used to discourage same-sex...
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colonial anti-sodomy laws continue to persist today in the form of discrimination, violence, and even death. Although the act of sodomy was sometimes...
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individuals, and allocate low-wage migrant labor. Also known as the natives' law, these laws severely restricted the movements of Black South African and other...
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writers and portrayed in artwork such as vases. It later became subject to sodomy laws and became increasingly seen as contemptible. In the 17th century, intercrural...
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List of sex-related court cases in the United States (category United States case law lists)
the term "sodomy" often applies not only to anal sex but also to oral sex and other sex acts.) Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)*. A law which allowed...
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Anti-discrimination law or non-discrimination law refers to legislation designed to prevent discrimination against particular groups of people; these...
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sodomy law (The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1864) that is still in effect. Islands in the Commonwealth Caribbean adopted British buggery laws;...
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LGBT rights in Namibia (category Law of Namibia)
Botswana's sodomy law by its High Court, First Lady Monica Geingos called for the repeal of Namibia's sodomy law, saying that the "sodomy law's days are...
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Social exclusion Sodomy law State atheism State religion Ugly law Voter suppression Countermeasures Affirmative action Anti-discrimination law Anti-racism...
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John Cornyn (category St. Mary's University School of Law alumni)
crafting its decision to uphold the constitutionality of Texas's anti-sodomy law (later ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in Lawrence v...
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Powell v. State (category Georgia (U.S. state) case law)
Court of Georgia in the U.S. state of Georgia that overturned its law against sodomy within the state. The Court ruled that the Georgia Constitution granted...
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Crime against nature (category Common law legal terminology)
historically been considered to be "crimes against nature" include masturbation, sodomy and bestiality. For much of modern history, a "crime against nature" was...
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