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A Shameful History and a Dark Legacy

This chapter introduces Alfred Kinsey, America’s most famous sexologist, who argued in 1953 that homosexual relations are more severely penalized by public opinion and statute law in the United States than in any other major culture in the world. It looks at the US Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in the Lawrence v. Texas case, which meant that the United States was no longer the only major Western democracy criminalizing homosexual conduct between consenting adults. The chapter also mentions Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan, Utah, and Virginia, which banned consensual sodomy without respect to the sex of those involved, and Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, which prohibited acts of sodomy by same-sex couples. It discusses America’s democratic peers in Western Europe and the Americas that ceased to make consensual homosexual relations a crime, such as France in 1791 and Brazil in 1830.