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Lawrence v. Texas , 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional .
This process continued until 2003, when Lawrence v. Texas ruled the 14 remaining anti-sodomy statutes unconstitutional. [7] In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. In the mid-20th century, gay men and lesbians began organizing movements to advocate for their rights.
Until the U.S. Supreme Court in June 2003 declared sodomy laws unconstitutional in Lawrence v. Texas, sodomy was a criminal offense in Texas, termed "deviate sexual intercourse". [6] [7] As of 2023, Texas is one of the three states where dormant sodomy laws only apply to same-sex acts, alongside Kentucky and Kansas.
Two years later, same-sex sexual activity was decriminalized in the Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas. In 2012, Texas Tech student Kat Cade cofounded the Lubbock PRIDE festival.
Texas appealed to have the court rehear the case en banc, and in 2001 it overturned its prior judgment and upheld the law. Lawrence appealed this decision to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which denied his request for appeal. Lawrence then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which agreed to hear his case.
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