From the Closet to the Courtoom: Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation

Carlos A. Ball
Beacon Press (beacon.org)

A big success of this serious look at legal cases that have advanced LGBT rights is that the law professor who wrote it found, for example, a romance in the section on eviction and true family values in parents who supported their son when he was harassed at school. In the chapter entitled “Sex,” Houston’s Lawrence v. Texas carries the banner for the right to choose one’s sexual partner. —Preview: Donalevan Maines