The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS

by Martin Padgett

When a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, Michael Hardwick had no idea that he would become an avatar of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right to privacy all the way to the Supreme Court, as the HIV/AIDS epidemic spiraled. When he lost, his era-defining case inspired a half-million people to protest against the Court. Today Bowers v. Hardwick continues to reverberate as the rights of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324035412
• ISBN13: 9781324035411
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages