A 29-year-old Bethlehem man faces multiple felony charges, including aggravated child molestation and aggravated sodomy, ...
Nearly 20 years after the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing consensual same-sex activity, the legacy of sodomy bans is still felt across the United States. In 1993, then-18-year-old Randall ...
Many people think anti-sodomy laws were widely used to prosecute gay men before the Supreme Court declared the laws unconstitutional in the landmark 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision. But in reality, ...
Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 A 1986 decision upholding sodomy laws, now widely recognized as a mistake, won’t be mentioned in the Supreme Court’s gay-marriage case—but it will be on the ...
A man publicly identified as “John Doe” is suing South Carolina for requiring him to register as a sex offender after his 2001 sodomy arrest for having consensual sex with another man. His case is ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But Texas isn’t the only state that’s still legislating bedroom activity. Fourteen ...
Some people like to dismiss the Old Testament’s teaching on homosexual sex (sodomy), given that the Book of Leviticus also banned such things as not wearing clothing made of two materials: “nor shall ...
Oops, our bad. But it was on the books! Such was the response, essentially, of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, after The Advocate newspaper reported on ...