Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence V. Texas: How a Bedroom Arrest Decriminalized Gay Americans

by Dale Carpenter

Book Overview

No one could have predicted that the night of September 17, 1998, would be anything but routine in Houston, Texas. Even the call to police that a black man was "going crazy with a gun" was hardly unusual in this urban setting. Nobody could have imagined that the arrest of two men for a minor criminal offense would reverberate in American constitutional law, exposing a deep malignity in our judicial system and challenging the traditional conception...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393062082
• ISBN13: 9780393062083
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.6"