Marc Stein
Author
Language
English
Description
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier. In the same era in which the Court recognized special marital, reproductive, and heterosexual rights and privileges, it also upheld an immigration...
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village. The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and trans-phobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the night. The riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and the surrounding community, followed by six days of protests, would go down in history as the most galvanizing period in this country's fight for sexual...