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Author Keen, Lisa

Title Strangers to the law : gay people on trial / Lisa Keen and Suzanne B. Goldberg
Edition 1st pbk. ed
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2000, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)
Series Law, meaning, and violence
Law, meaning, and violence.
Contents The stakes -- Prelude to a trial -- The science of sexuality -- History of hate -- The politics of law -- Civil rights and "special rights" -- Morality plays -- The Colorado verdicts -- The U.S. Supreme Court -- The law and social change
Summary In 1992, the voters of Colorado passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to prevent the state or any local government from adopting any law or policy that protected a person with a homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation from discrimination. This amendment was immediately challenged in the courts as a denial of equal protection of the laws under the United States Constitution. This litigation ultimately led to a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court invalidating the Colorado ballot initiative. Suzanne Goldberg, an attorney involved in the case from the beginning on behalf of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Lisa Keen, a journalist who covered the initiative campaign and litigation, tell the story of this case, providing an inside view of this complex and important litigation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Evans, Richard G. -- Trials, litigation, etc
Romer, Roy, 1928- -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Evans, Richard G. fast
Romer, Roy, 1928- fast
Evans, Richard G. -- Trials, litigation, etc. nli
Romer, Roy, 1928- -- Trials, litigation, etc. nli
Subject Equality before the law -- Colorado
Equality before the law -- United States.
Gay rights -- Colorado
Gay people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Colorado
Gay people -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Equality before the law
Gay rights
Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Gay rights
Equality before the law -- Colorado.
Equality before the law -- United States.
Gay rights -- Colorado.
Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Colorado.
Gays -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Colorado
United States
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Goldberg, Suzanne B
ISBN 9780472022762
0472022768
Other Titles Gay people on trial