From 2023: While Texas has a long history of repression of LGBTQ+ people, it's also been a hotbed of civil rights activism that inspired nationwide movements and landmark legal decisions granting queer people human rights. https://www.texasobserver.org/before-lawrence-v-texas-book-history-lgbtqia/
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Before 'Lawrence': From Sodomy to Queer Liberation
Wesley G. Phelps’ new history book reveals how gay persecution in the Lone Star State spurred the struggle for LGBTQ+ civil rights nationwide.Kit O'Connell (The Texas Observer)
