The Massachusetts Senate passed a bill seeking to repeal the commonwealth’s now-defunct anti-sodomy law, which remains on the books despite not being enforced. Massachusetts is currently one of only ...

Nearly 20 years after the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing consensual same-sex activity, the legacy of sodomy bans is still felt across the United States. In 1993, then-18-year-old Randall ...

Last week, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli petitioned a federal court to reconsider its ruling on the state’s anti-sodomy law, asking the judges of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to ...

A man publicly identified as “John Doe” is suing South Carolina for requiring him to register as a sex offender after his 2001 sodomy arrest for having consensual sex with another man. His case is ...

12 U.S. states still have anti-sodomy laws on the books, even though the U.S. Supreme Court called these laws unconstitutional in 2003. Among the wildly dressed marchers this year at New Orleans’ ...

Even as the United States continues its historic move toward fairness and equity for gay people, antiquated anti-sodomy laws remain on the books in a dozen states. Theoretically, these laws were ...

When the Indian Supreme Court this week reinstated a law banning gay sex, everyone in my liberal social circle began circulating outrage. I shared in this — and yet, I couldn’t help but wonder at the ...

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Charlton Green was 20 when he was arrested after having oral sex with a 16-year-old male in a Georgia hotel room. He was convicted of a sex crime — not because the act was not consensual (it was), nor ...

Oops, our bad. But it was on the books! Such was the response, essentially, of the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, after The Advocate newspaper reported on ...

Editor’s Note: Kyle Knight is a researcher in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights program at Human Rights Watch. An alleged crackdown by the South Korean army on gay male service members ...