Out of the closets & into the courts legal opportunity structure and gay rights litigation /

Andersen, Ellen Ann.

Out of the closets & into the courts legal opportunity structure and gay rights litigation / [electronic resource] : Ellen Ann Andersen. - 1st pbk. ed. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006. - 298 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p.269-281) and index.

The puzzle of gay rights litigation -- LOS and the emergence of gay rights litigation -- An overview of Lambda and its litigation -- Sodomy reform from Stonewall to Bowers -- Sodomy reform from Bowers to Lawrence -- The law and politics of antigay initiatives -- The case of same-sex marriage -- LOS and legal change.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Gays--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States.


Electronic books.

KF4754.5 / .A96 2006