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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part one The Apartheid of the Closet -- 1. Masquerade and the Law, 1880–1946 -- 2. Kulturkampf and the Threatening Closet, 1946–1961 -- 3. Coming Out and Challenging the Closet, 1961–1981 -- Part two Remnants of the Closet (Don't Ask, Don't Tell) -- Introduction -- 4. Hardwick and Historiography -- 5. The Sexualized First Amendment -- 6. Multivocal Prejudices and Homo Equality -- Part Three After the Closet: Queer Theory and the Sexual State -- 7. Sexual Consent Paradoxes -- 8. Beyond Families We Choose -- 9. Religion and Homosexuality: Equality Practice -- Appendixes: Regulating Sexual and Gender Variation in the United States -- A Early Municipal and State Regulation -- B Modern State and Municipal Regulation -- C Statistics -- Notes -- Index

The constitution of equality and administrative constitutionalism -- The democratic constitution and our episodic republic -- The constitution of the market and state legitimacy -- The safety net constitution and the politics of entrenchment -- The constitution of the family and statutes as precedents -- The green constitution and judicial deference to agency dynamism -- The monetary constitution and administrative experimentation -- The antihomosexual constitution and its dis-entrenchment -- The national security constitution

American body politics and the crime against nature, 1861-81 -- From the sodomite to the homosexual, 1881-1935 -- The anti-homosexual Kulturkampf, 1935-61 -- The case(s) against the crime against nature, 1935-61 -- Homo equality and sodomy reform, 1961-69 -- The crime against nature after Stonewall, 1969-75 -- Gay civil rights and a new politics of preservation, 1975-86 -- The crime against nature on trial, Bowers v. Hardwick,1986 -- The Lambda-ACLU campaign to overrule Bowers, 1986-2003 -- Sodomy law at the Alamo, Lawrence v. Texas, 2003 -- State regulation of sexuality after Lawrence v. Texas, 2003-05 -- Beyond Whitman and Comstock: Bowers and Hardwick revisited

William Eskridge, a Yale law professor chronicles the Vermont law which legalised civil unions - distinct from marriage - for same sex couples.

"As a legal scholar who first argued in the early 1990s for a right to gay marriage, William N. Eskridge Jr. has been on the front lines of the debate over same-sex marriage for decades. In this book, Eskridge and his coauthor, Christopher R. Riano, offer a panoramic and definitive history of America's marriage equality debate. The authors explore the deeply religious, rabidly political, frequently administrative, and pervasively constitutional features of the debate and consider all angles of its dramatic history. While giving a full account of the legal and political issues, the authors never lose sight of the personal stories of the people involved, or of the central place the right to marry holds in a person's ability to enjoy the dignity of full citizenship. This is not a triumphalist or one-sided book but a thoughtful history of how the nation wrestled with an important question of moral and legal equality."