The following appeared in Volume 97, Number 1 (Fall 1997) of the APA Newsletters


Newsletter on Philosophy and Law


Legal Aspects of Gay and Lesbian Rights

Selective Bibliography


The following bibliography represents only a very partial list of monographs and articles appearing since 1990, the articles in law reviews rather than philosophy journals. Citations for some of the major court cases can be found in this issue’s articles and the "Editor’s Introduction". Entries marked with an asterisk appear in the "Recent Law Review Articles of Interest" section of this Newsletter.

Arriola, Elvia R. "Gendered Inequality: Lesbians, Gays, and Feminist Legal Theory," Berkeley Women’s Law Journal 9 (1994), 103.

Bawer, Bruce. A Place at the Table : The Gay Individual in American Society (New York: Poseidon Press, 1993).

Bradley, Craig M. "The Right Not to Endorse Gay Rights: A Reply to Sunstein," Indiana Law Journal 70 (1994), 29-38.

Cain, Patricia A. "Litigating for Lesbian and Gay Rights: A Legal History," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1551-1641.

Calhoun, Cheshire. "Denaturalizing and Desexualizing Lesbian and Gay Identity," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1859-75.

*Calhoun, Cheshire. "Sexuality Injustice," Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 9 (1995), 241-74.

Card, Claudia. Lesbian Choices (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).

Case, Mary Anne. "Couples and Coupling in the Public Sphere," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1643-94.

Chambers, David L. "Gay Men, AIDS, and the Code of the Condom," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 29 (1994), 353-85.

*Chambers, David L. "What If? The Legal Consequences of Marriage and the Legal Needs of Lesbian and Gay Male Couples," Michigan Law Review 95 (1996), 447-91.

Cole, David & Eskridge, William N. Jr. "From Hand-Holding to Sodomy: First Amendment Protection of Homosexual (Expressive) Conduct," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 29 (1994), 319-51.

Cox, Barbara J. "Same-Sex Marriage and Choice-of-Law: If We Marry in Hawaii, Are We Still Married When We Return Home?" Wisconsin Law Review (1994), 1033.

Culverhouse, Renee & Lewis, Christine. "Homosexuality as a Suspect Class," South Texas Law Review 34 (1993), 205.

Duncan, Richard F. & Young, Gary L. "Homosexual Rights and Citizen Initiatives: Is Constitutionalism Unconstitutional?" Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 9 (1995), 93-136.

Eaton, Mary. "At the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation: Toward Lesbian Jurisprudence," Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies 3 (1994), 183.

Epstein, Richard A. "Caste and the Civil Rights Laws: From Jim Crow to Same-Sex Marriages," Michigan Law Review 92 (1994), 2456-78.

Eskridge, William N. "A History of Same-Sex Marriages," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1419-1513.

Eskridge, William N. The Case for Same-Sex Marriage. (New York: Free Press, 1996).

Eskridge, William N. "A Jurisprudence of >Coming Out’: Religion, Homosexuality, and Collisions of Liberty and Equality in American Public Law," Yale Law Journal 106 (1997), 2411-74.

Eskridge, William N. Jr. & Hunter, Nan D. Sexuality, Gender, and the Law (Westbury, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 1997).

Estlund, David M. & Nussbaum, Martha C. Sex, Preference, and Family: Essays on Law and Nature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

Feldblum, Chai. "Sexual Orientation, Morality, and the Law: Devlin Revisited," University of Pittsburgh Law Review 57 (1996), 237.

Finnis, John M. "Law, Morality, and >Sexual Orientation’," Notre Dame Law Review 69 (1994), 1049-76.

Foss, Robert J. "The Demise of Homosexual Exclusion: New Possibilities for Gay and Lesbian Immigration," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 29 (1994), 439-75.

Frank, Barney. "Bowers + Ten: Litigation, Legislation, and Community Activism," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 32 (1997), 265-74.

Franke, Katherine M. "The Central Mistake of Sex Discrimination Law: The Disaggregation of Sex from Gender," University of Pennsylvania Law Review 144 (1995), 1.

*George, Robert P. "Public Reason and Political Conflict: Abortion and Homosexuality," Yale Law Journal 106 (1997), 2475-2504.

Goldstein, Anne B. "Reasoning About Homosexuality," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1781-1804.

Gutierrez, Fernando J. "Gay and Lesbian: An Ethnic Identity Deserving Equal Protection," Law and Sexuality 4 (1994), 195.

Halley, Janet E. "Reasoning About Sodomy: Act and Identity In and After Bowers v. Hardwick," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1721-80.

Hayes, John Charles. "The Tradition of Prejudice Versus the Principle of Equality: Homosexuals and Heightened Equal Protection Scrutiny After Bowers v. Hardwick," Boston College Law Review 31 (1990), 375.

Herek, Gregory M. "Myths About Sexual Orientation: A Lawyer’s Guide to Social Science Research," Law & Sexuality 1 (1991), 133.

Herman, Didi & Stychin, Carl (eds). Legal Inversions: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Politics of Law (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995).

Hohengarten, William H. "Same-Sex Marriage and the Right of Privacy," Yale Law Journal 103 (1994), 1495-1531.

Hunter, Nan D. "Identity, Speech, and Equality," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1695-1719.

Hunter, Nan D. "Marriage, Law, and Gender: A Feminist Inquiry," Law & Sexuality 1 (1991), 1.

Hunter, Nan D. "Life after Hardwick," Harvard Civil Rights- Civil Liberties Law Review 27 (1992), 531-54.

Hunter, Nan D & Rubenstein, William B. AIDS Agenda : Emerging Issues in Civil Rights (New York: New Press, 1992).

"In Sickness and in Health, in Hawaii and Where Else?: Conflict of Laws and Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages," Harvard Law Review 109 (1996), 2038-55.

Johnson, Chad S. "A Judicial Blow to the Military’s Anti-Gay Policies: Pruitt v. Cheney," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 27 (1992), 244-61.

*Joslin, Courtney G. "Equal Protection and Anti-Gay Legislation: Dismantling the Legacy of Bowers v. HardwickBRomer v Evans," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 32 (1997), 225-47.

Kaplan, Morris B. "Constructing Lesbian and Gay Rights and Liberation," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1877-1902.

Kaplan, Morris B. Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire (New York: Routledge, 1997).

Karst, Kenneth L. "Myths of Identity: Individual and Group Portraits of Race and Sexual Orientation," UCLA Law Review 43 (1995), 263-319.

Keane, Thomas M. "Aloha, Marriage? Constitutional and Choice of Law Arguments for Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages," Stanford Law Review 47 (1995), 499-532.

Koppelman, Andrew. "Why Discrimination Against Lesbians and Gay Men Is Sex Discrimination," N.Y.U. Law Review 69 (1994), 197.

*Kramer, Larry. "Same-Sex Marriage, Conflict of Laws, and the Unconstitutional Public Policy Exception," Yale Law Journal 106 (1997), 1965-2008.

Macedo, Stephen. "Homosexuality and the Conservative Mind," George Washington Law Review 84 (1995), 261-300.

Macedo, Stephen. "Against the Old Sexual Morality of the New Natural Law: A Critique of John Finnis," in Robert P. George (ed.), Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality: Contemporary Essays (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 27-48.

Marcosson, Samuel A. "The >Special Rights’ Canard in the Debate Over Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights," Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 9 (1995), 137-84.

Massaro, Toni M. "Gay Rights, Thick and Thin," Stanford Law Review 49 (1996), 45-110.

Mendenhall, Lawrence Kent. "Misters Korematsu and Steffan: The Japanese Internment and the Military’s Ban on Gays in the Armed Forces," NYU Law Review 70 (1995), 196.

*Mishra, Devjani. "The Road to Concord: Resolving the Conflict of Law over Adoption by Gays and Lesbians," Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 30 (1996), 91-136.

Mohr, Richard D. Gay Ideas: Outing and other Contro- versies (Boston : Beacon Press, 1992).

Mohr, Richard D. "The Case for Gay Marriage," Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 9 (1995), 215-40.

Nava, Michael & Davidoff, Robert. Created Equal: Why Gay Rights Matter to America (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994).

Niblock, John F. "Anti-Gay Initiatives: A Call for Heightened Judicial Scrutiny," UCLA Law Review 41, 153-98.

Nunan, Richard. "Militant Gays, Gays in the Military, and Privacy as Social Freedom," Law and Philosophy 13 (1994), 481-92.

Nussbaum, Martha C. "The Use and Abuse of Philosophy in Legal Education,"Stanford Law Review 45 (1993), 1627.

Nussbaum, Martha C. "Platonic Love and Colorado Law: The Relevance of Ancient Greek Norms to Modern Sexual Controversies," Virginia Law Review 80 (1994), 1515-1651.

Ortiz, Daniel R. "Creating Controversy: Essentialism and Constructivism in the Politics of Gay Identity," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1833-57.

Penas, Dwight J. "Bless the Tie That Binds: A Puritan- Covenant Case for Same-Sex Marriage," Law & Inequality Journal 8 (1990), 533.

Perry, Michael D. "The Morality of Homosexual Conduct: A Response to John Finnis," Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 9 (1995), 41-74.

Pershing, Stephen B. ">Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee’: Bottoms v. Bottoms and the Custody Rights of Gay and Lesbian Parents," William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 3 (1994), 289.

Polikoff, Nancy D. "This Child Does Have Two Mothers: Redefining Parenthood to Meet the Needs of Children in Lesbian-Mother and Other Nontraditional Families," Georgetown Law Journal 78 (1990), 459.

Polikoff, Nancy D. "Educating Judges about Lesbian and Gay Parenting: A Simulation," Law and Sexuality 1 (1991), 173.

Polikoff, Nancy D. "We Will Get What We Ask For: Why Legalizing Gay and Lesbian Marriage Will Not Dismantle the Legal Structure of Gender in Every Marriage," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1535-50.

Posner, Richard A. Sex and Reason (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).

Posner, Richard A. & Silbaugh Katharine B. A Guide to America’s Sex Laws (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

"Recent Developments: The Final Freedom/Equal Protection and Anti-Gay Legislation," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 31 (1996), 197-247.

Richards, David A. J. "Sexual Preference as a Suspect (Religious) Classification: An Alternative Perspective on the Unconstitutionality of Anti-Lesbian/Gay Initiatives," Ohio State Law Journal 55 (1994), 491.

Rimmerman, Craig. Gay Rights, Military Wrongs (New York: Garland Publishing, 1996).

Ronner, Amy D. "Bottoms v. Bottoms: The Lesbian Mother and the Judicial Perpetuation of Damaging Stereotypes," Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 7 (1995), 341-73.

Rosenblum, Darren. "Geographically Sexual?: Advancing Lesbian and Gay Interests Through Proportional Representation," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 31 (1996), 119-54.

Robson, Ruthann. Lesbian (Out)law: Survival Under the Rule of Law (Ithaca: Firebrand Books, 1992).

Rubenstein, William B. Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law, Second Edition. (St. Paul: West Publishing, 1997).

Samar, Vincent Joseph. The Right to Privacy: Gays, Lesbians, and the Constitution (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991).

Schacter, Jane. "The Gay Civil Rights Debate in the States: Decoding the Discourse of Equivalents," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 29 (1994), 283-317.

Scott, Wilbur J. & Stanley, Sandra Carson. Gays and Lesbians in the Military (Hawthorne: Aldine de Gruyter, 1994).

Sexual Orientation and the Law, Editors of the Harvard Law Review (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990).

Sherman, Suzanne (ed). Lesbian and Gay Marriage: Private Commitments, Public Ceremonies (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992).

Shilts, Randy. Conduct Unbecoming: Gays & Lesbians in the U.S. Military (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993).

Siegal, Paul. "Second Hand Prejudice, Racial Analogies, and Shared Showers: Why >Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Won’t Sell," Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 9 (1995), 185-214.

Stoddard, Thomas B. "Lesbian and Gay Rights Litigation Before a Hostile Federal Judiciary: Extracting Benefit from Peril," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 27 (1992), 555-73.

Strasser, Mark. "Unconstitutional? Don’t Ask; If It Is, Don’t Tell: On Deference, Rationality, and the Constitution," University of Colorado Law Review 66 (1995), 375-460.

Strasser, Mark. "Domestic Relations Jurisprudence and the Great Slumbering Baehr: On Definitional Preclusion, Equal Protection, and Fundamental Interests," Fordham Law Review 64 (1995), 921-86.

Strasser, Mark. Legally Wed (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997).

Sullivan, Andrew. Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1995).

Sunstein, Cass R. "Homosexuality and the Constitution," Indiana Law Journal 70 (1994), 5-28.

Thomas, Kendall. "The Eclipse of Reason: A Rhetorical Reading of Bowers v. Hardwick," Virginia Law Review 79 (1993), 1805-32.

Trosino, James. "American Wedding: Same-Sex Marriage and the Miscegenation Analogy," Boston University Law Review 73 (1993), 93.

Vaid, Urvashi. Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation (New York: Anchor Books, 1995).

Valdes, Francisco. "Queers, Sissies, Dykes, and Tomboys: Deconstructing the Conflation of >Sex,’ >Gender,’ and >Sexual Orientation’ in Euro-American Law and Society," California Law Review 83 (1995), 1.

Warner, Michael, ed. Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993).

Weithman, Paul J. "A Propos of Professor Perry: A Plea for Philosophy in Sexual Ethics," Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 9 (1995), 75-92.

Winer, Anthony C. "Hate Crimes, Homosexuals, and the Constitution," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 29 (1994), 387-438.

Wolfson, Evan. "Crossing the Threshold: Equal Marriage Rights for Lesbians and Gay Men and the Intracommunity Critique," NYU Review of Law & Social Change 21 (1994-95), 567.

Yoshino, Kenji. "Suspect Symbols: The Literary Argument for Heightened Scrutiny for Gays," Columbia Law Review 96 (1996), 1753-1834.


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