Carlos A. Ball (Rutgers): Obscenity, Morality, and the First Amendment: The First LGBT Rights Cases Before the Supreme Court. Taylor Flynn (WNE): Federal Equal Protection. Nan D. Hunter (Georgetown): A Deer in Headlights: The Supreme Court, LGBT Rights, and Equal Protection. Joseph William Singer (Harvard): We Don’t Serve Your Kind Here: Public Accommodations and the Mark of Sodom. Paul Vincent Courtney (Penn): Prohibiting Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Public Accommodations: A Common Law Approach. Kelly Strader and Molly Selvin (Stanford) and Lindsey Hay (Southwestern): Gay Panic, Gay Victims, and the Case for Gay Shield Laws. Ian Millhauser on the Supreme Court’s unconscionable slow-walk towards gay rights. J. Stephen Clark (Albany): But for Sex: Equal Protection and the Individual Opportunity to Marry One’s Chosen Partner Without Regard to Sex. Pema Levy on the science of how gay marriage will destroy America. Jesse Singal on how scientists debunked the biggest anti-gay-marriage study. The one Supreme Court paragraph on love that gay marriage supporters will never forget.
Zack Ford and Judd Legum on 19 hysterical passages from Supreme Court same-sex marriage dissenters. Justice Scalia lost on same-sex marriage — but at least he gets to say, “I told you so”. What Scalia’s same-sex marriage dissent gets right about the Supreme Court. It’s cryptic, but Scalia’s last paragraph sounds like a threat — or even a call — for court rulings to be ignored. Let the nullification crisis begin: Mike Huckabee is already out with a defiant statement declaring that he will not “acquiesce to an imperial court”. The Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage, but that won’t stop opponents from pushing anti-gay laws. Why does the Republican Party still oppose LGBT rights? Lydia DePillis on the next frontier in the battle for gay rights: LGBTQ Americans still lack protection against discrimination in the workplace. Following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision making same-sex marriage legal nationwide, sources confirmed Friday that only 47,000 social justice milestones need to be reached before the U.S. achieves full equality. Josh Eidelson on the new law that would outlaw LGBT discrimination everywhere.
From TNR, Michael Lindenberger on the vanishing terrain of gay America: A writer returns to the city where he was raised — and exiled — to find what was lost when gay life entered the mainstream; what will gay culture look like in 2035? LGBTQ activists and writers weigh in; and future queer: Where is Gay America going next?
