In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.

Too Little, Too Late: The Path To Griswold v. Connecticut
It had taken fifty years to defeat the repressive, prudish and sexist ban on birth control.
In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.
It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.
Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.
How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?
When sexual desire was not attached to notions of sexual identity.
George Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in more than thirty cases dealing with gay rights.
Discussion of Obergefell compared activism for marriage equality with efforts to secure equal rights.