The many passions of Michael Hardwick : sex and the Supreme Court in the age of AIDS
(2025)
Nonfiction
Book
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NEW HISTORY
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PUBLISHED
New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2025]
©2025
©2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xxiv, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781324035411, 1324035412 :, 1324035412, 9781324035411
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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 [Bowers v. Hardwick] inspired a half-million people to protest, and the ruling became one of the most reviled of its time