The United States has inherited sodomy laws which constitutionally outlawed a variety of sexual acts that are deemed to be illegal, illicit, unlawful... 64 KB (4,299 words) - 08:26, 1 May 2024 |
term sodomy, which is derived from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Book of Genesis, was commonly restricted to homosexual anal sex. Sodomy laws in... 65 KB (7,464 words) - 09:45, 7 April 2024 |
seen as evidence of a "sodomy-law reform wave." During the same period, however, eight countries expanded their laws regarding sodomy. In January 2014, Nigeria... 22 KB (2,442 words) - 04:53, 28 March 2024 |
Lawrence v. Texas (category 2003 in United States case law) adult sexual activities between two individuals (commonly referred to as sodomy laws) are unconstitutional. The Court reaffirmed the concept of a "right to... 64 KB (7,366 words) - 02:41, 24 April 2024 |
LGBT rights in the United Kingdom (redirect from Sodomy laws in England) which was pioneered by Henry VIII. The Act was the country's first civil sodomy law, such offences having previously been dealt with by the ecclesiastical... 219 KB (20,161 words) - 19:38, 26 April 2024 |
Female sodomy is distinct from the social and legal category of (male) sodomy due to the significant differences in the way women accused of sodomy were... 22 KB (2,953 words) - 08:54, 7 March 2024 |
sodomy law (The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1864) that is still in effect. Islands in the Commonwealth Caribbean adopted British buggery laws;... 128 KB (13,339 words) - 02:16, 22 March 2024 |
LGBT rights in the United States (redirect from LGBT law in the United States) Court, which invalidated state laws banning protected class recognition based upon homosexuality, struck down sodomy laws nationwide, struck down Section... 449 KB (37,881 words) - 14:42, 1 May 2024 |
Abby Rubenfeld (category Boston University School of Law alumni) challenged Tennessee's "Homosexual Practices Acts" law, which criminalized sodomy. The sodomy law was overturned in 1996. In 2013, she organized a group... 4 KB (312 words) - 06:49, 1 February 2024 |
Bowers v. Hardwick (category 1986 in United States case law) Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did... 30 KB (3,379 words) - 02:59, 20 February 2024 |
LGBT rights in Dominica (category Law of Dominica) colonial-era sodomy law. Dominica provides no recognition to same-sex unions, whether in the form of marriage or civil unions, and no law prohibits discrimination... 15 KB (1,559 words) - 15:21, 28 April 2024 |
petition calling for the repeal of Utah's existing sodomy law. Reportedly, Utah's existing sodomy law prohibits oral sex, anal sex, and the rusty trombone... 8 KB (908 words) - 09:16, 6 April 2024 |
LGBT rights by country or territory (redirect from Homosexuality and law) transgender people laws related to sexual orientation and military service laws concerning access to assisted reproductive technology sodomy laws that penalize... 58 KB (16,286 words) - 07:28, 1 May 2024 |
Human sexual activity (section Same-sex laws) influence on social policy, marriage laws serve the purpose of encouraging people to have sex only within marriage. Sodomy laws have been used to discourage same-sex... 69 KB (7,456 words) - 13:49, 31 March 2024 |
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation... 72 KB (8,593 words) - 21:26, 24 April 2024 |
LGBT rights in Minnesota (section Sodomy law repeal) non-commercial sodomy was covered under the right to privacy. In Doe et al. v. Ventura et al. (2001), Minneapolis Judge Delilah Pierce ruled that the sodomy law violated... 55 KB (4,712 words) - 02:57, 11 April 2024 |
British colonial anti-sodomy laws continue to persist today in the form of discrimination, violence, and death. Although the act of sodomy was sometimes prosecuted... 53 KB (5,765 words) - 02:46, 22 April 2024 |
The Nuremberg Laws (German: Nürnberger Gesetze, pronounced [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁɡɐ ɡəˈzɛtsə] ) were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany... 50 KB (5,832 words) - 15:21, 24 April 2024 |
Homosexuality in Japan (section Politics and law) proof of their perversion and being uncivilized. The only time homosexual sodomy has been banned in Japan was for short time for 8 years in 1872-1880 due... 52 KB (6,600 words) - 08:25, 1 May 2024 |
Crime against nature (category Common law legal terminology) historically been considered to be "crimes against nature" include masturbation, sodomy and bestiality. For much of modern history, a "crime against nature" was... 12 KB (1,381 words) - 14:30, 18 February 2024 |
Powell v. State (category Georgia (U.S. state) case law) Court of Georgia in the U.S. state of Georgia that overturned its law against sodomy within the state. The Court ruled that the Georgia Constitution granted... 5 KB (429 words) - 02:56, 13 September 2023 |
Criminalization of homosexuality (redirect from Laws against homosexuality) prohibitions of sodomy to secular law. They also toughened enforcement, with vice squads appearing in some European cities. In some cases, sodomy was punished... 64 KB (7,615 words) - 06:36, 16 April 2024 |
LGBT rights in Namibia (category Law of Namibia) Botswana's sodomy law by its High Court, First Lady Monica Geingos called for the repeal of Namibia's sodomy law, saying that the "sodomy law's days are... 34 KB (3,280 words) - 01:19, 5 March 2024 |
Ayoni (section Sodomy and ayoni) concepts: In the Abrahamic religions, sodomy is understood to be a terrible sin that deserves serious punishment. In Hindu law, however, ayoni remained a rather... 8 KB (781 words) - 10:57, 17 February 2024 |
Homosexuality (section Law and politics) Austrian-born novelist Karl-Maria Kertbeny. arguing against a Prussian anti-sodomy law. In 1886, the psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing used the terms homosexual... 212 KB (21,462 words) - 22:36, 30 April 2024 |
Social exclusion Sodomy law State atheism State religion Ugly law Voter suppression Countermeasures Affirmative action Anti-discrimination law Cultural assimilation... 3 KB (345 words) - 05:05, 5 April 2024 |
Misogyny (section English and Welsh law) rationalise and justify patriarchy, from misogyny, which she calls the "law enforcement" branch of patriarchy: [S]exist ideology will tend to discriminate... 76 KB (8,924 words) - 22:22, 27 March 2024 |