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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Why Rainbow Rights? -- Making "Rights" Arguments -- Courts Versus Legislatures -- Organization of This Book -- Notes -- 1 Earlier Civil Rights Movements: Lessons to Be Learned -- Civil Rights Movement for Race Equality -- Civil Rights Movement for Gender Equality -- Legacies and Lessons -- Notes -- 2 Lawyers, Legal Theories, and Litigation Strategy -- Public Interest Lawyers -- Lesbian and Gay Public Interest Lawyering -- Legal Theories and Litigation Strategy -- Notes -- 3 Public Rights: 1950-1985 -- Gay and Lesbian Battles over Public Space -- Gay and Lesbian Bars -- Student Groups: Access to Public Space in Universities -- The High School Prom: Access to Public Space in Secondary Schools -- Employment Rights -- Direct Restrictions on Public Speech -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4 Private Rights: 1950-1985 -- Criminalization of Sodomy -- The Wolfenden Report -- The ALI Project -- Early Constitutional Challenges to Sodomy Statutes -- Solicitation to Commit Sodomy and Lewd and Lascivious Conduct -- Family Rights -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 When Private Becomes Public: Coupling in the Public Sphere, 1950-1985 -- Marriage -- Immigration -- Adult Adoption -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 Bowers v. Hardwick -- The Early Sodomy Challenges: The Road to Bowers v. Hardwick -- Bowers v. Hardwick -- The Aftermath -- Notes -- 7 Public Sphere Rights Post-Bowers v. Hardwick -- Hardwick's Effect on Equal Protection Claims: One Court Makes the Connection Between Sodomy Laws and Discrimination -- Responding to Padula: The Birth of the Status Versus Conduct Distinction -- The Military Cases -- Supreme Court Victory: Romer v. Evans -- Romer's Long-Term Effect on Antigay Ballot Initiatives -- Romer's Effect on Equal Protection Claims

Sexual minorities in the Supreme Court -- Sexual orientation discrimination: constitutional & statutory protection -- Gender identity and the law -- Recognition of same-sex relationships -- Recognition of the parent-child relationship -- Additional selected topics.

Leading the way : Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong -- Armstrong's pre-World War II contemporaries : Harriet Spiller Daggett and Margaret Harris Amsler -- The czarina of legal education : Soia Mentschikoff -- From the library to the faculty : five women who changed careers : Miriam Theresa Rooney, Jeanette Ozanne Smith, Janet Mary Riley, Helen Elsie Steinbinder, and Maria Minnette Massey -- The mid-fifties : Ellen Ash Peters and Dorothy Wright Nelson -- The end of an era : Joan Miday Krauskopf and Marygold Shire Melli -- The next decades : Ruth Bader Ginsburg and women law professors from the 1960s to the 1980s -- Conclusion -- Appendix: a note on Clemence Myers Smith, the sixth woman law professor.