The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS Jeffrey A. Hall envy and desire

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The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS Jeffrey A. Hall envy and desireThe little known story of the man who sparked a groundswell of gay activism after a wrongly decided Supreme Court decision. Michael Hardwick had no idea that when a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, he would become a face of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right to privacy all the way to the Supreme Court, even as the HIV AIDS epidemic began its toll. When he lost, his era defining case