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Using International and Foreign Law in Human Rights Litigation: The Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Belize
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Andrew Novak
Journal of Human Rights Practice, Volume 10, Issue 2, July 2018, Pages 346–354, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huy014
Published: 22 June 2018
... norms applicable to the rights conferred by the Constitution’ (Orozco at 24). Indeed, even the Human Dignity Trust’s litigation strategy against Belize’s anti-sodomy laws was informed by anti-death penalty advocates at the Death Penalty Project in a strategy session between the two...
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Timing Matters: Shifts in the Causal Determinants of Sodomy Law Decriminalization, 1961–1998
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Melinda D. Kane
Social Problems, Volume 54, Issue 2, 1 May 2007, Pages 211–239, https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2007.54.2.211
Published: 30 July 2014
... in the causal determinants of movement outcomes, so a movement tactic such as legal mobilization is important in some years, but not in others. Using a series of “moving” event histories, this article investigates whether there have been variations over time in the causal determinants of sodomy law...
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Published: 20 November 2017
..., and (dis)ability. Bisexuals Invert gender and sex Navy U S Peter R transient Gays Crime against nature Sodomy Vagrancy vagrants Boag Peter Chauncey George Disability Fairy Oral sex Bahamas Bahamians Freud Sigmund Sailors Kruger Ely Miami Beach Sargent John Singer Vizcaya villa World War...
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Published: 08 January 2018
...This chapter explores why there existed in French discussions the need to link sodomy (here specifically referencing anal sex), violence, and the aftermath of empire to new conceptions of how power functioned was most visible, because invocations of “the Arab man” rung so clearly. It does so...
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Same-sex Possibilities
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Helmut Puff
Published: 28 January 2013
.... This chapter retraces this shift in perspective. It also shows how, toward the end of the Middle Ages, the dissemination of the concept of sodomy among Christian believers affected the rich fabric of homosocial life and emotions. same sex relations Beheim Michel Albert the Great Bible Damian Peter St...
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Marriage: The Sacrament of Love
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Bryce E. Rich
Published: 16 May 2023
... destruction of Sodom homosexuality Jerome Lv 18 22 Lv 20 13 Romans pederasty Sodom arsenokoitēs Didache malakos malthakos soft effeminate Philo of Alexandria dogma oikonomia Tertullian care of souls marriage sacraments—Orthodox Eastern Church same-sex marriage sexual minorities sodomy Can...
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Published: 20 April 2021
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Soviet legal and criminological debates on the decriminalisation of homosexuality (1959–75)
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Rustam Alexander
Published: 25 May 2021
...In the late 1950s and early 1960s, almost three decades after consensual sodomy was declared a crime in the USSR, voices began to speak out in favour of its decriminalisation. This chapter traces the history of the debates on sodomy and lesbianism between Soviet legal scholars in the period from...
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Published: 15 November 2021
...This chapter tackles the indeterminate genders in the Spanish Inquisition in terms of Elenx de Céspedes who had a husband and a wife in the course of their life. It combines Elenx's narratives on hermaphroditism and sodomy. Elenx claimed their identity as a hermaphrodite to the Inquisition...
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The Transgender Turn: Eleanor Rykener Speaks Back
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M. W. Bychowski
Published: 15 November 2021
.... The chapter discusses the cisgender turn before tackling the transgender turn. It includes how medieval sodomy and modern queer identity fell in line with trans erotics, which is the particulars of transgender sex and sexuality. Eleanor's case has been re-evaluated following the transgender turn to medieval...
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Published: 09 February 2016
...This chapter outlines the ways in which sodomy was often treated like heresy in Portugal and addresses the comparative archival absence of female sodomy cases in the colonial Brazilian historical record—a fact that is linked to the very definition of “sodomy” in the Lusophone context. Inquisitors...
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Conclusion
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Lucas A. Powe
Published: 27 April 2018
... (homosexual sodomy); and Roe v. Wade and Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (abortion). City of Boerne v Flores 521 U S 507 1997 Judicial review Religious Freedom Restoration Act Marbury v Madison 5 U S 1 Cranch 137 1803 National League of Cities v Usery 428 U S 833 1976...
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Beneath the Law: Infamia
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Justin Steinberg
Published: 06 October 2013
... (good or bad reputation). The poetics of reputation are especially notable in his treatment of sodomy in the Commedia . In his portrayal of the sodomites, Dante creates a form of realism based on the intransigent and often brutal detail. The revelation of the hidden sins of Florence’s...
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Published: 02 March 2010
...” to the antitheatricallists,
Gaveston's speech rehearses and repeats, virtually embraces, their charges
— along with others, that associated the court with profligacy, and Italy
with vice. “Bugeria is an Italian word”, the learned
Justice Coke would write in his Laws of England ; sodomy...
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Crimes Related to Sexuality and Reproduction
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Daniel J.R. Grey
Published: 01 July 2014
... a pregnancy, the essay cautions against making generalizations about sexuality and crime in particular regions or time periods and ultimately questions whether sexuality is a useful category of analysis. sodomy child sexual abuse Europe incest capital punishment child physical abuse homosexuality...
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Published: 15 December 2009
...In 1791 the Constituent Assembly of France promulgated a new penal code abolishing the criminalization of “sodomy.” Although same-sex relations between adults have never been illegal in France, at least since 1791, police surveillance of same-sex activity continued throughout the revolutionary...
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Transcendent Homosexuals, Dangerous Sex Offenders
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Joseph J. Fischel
Published: 15 May 2016
...Chapter 2 anatomizes the legal fiction of the sex offender by reading Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark Supreme Court ruling holding sodomy laws unconstitutional, against two contemporaneously decided sex offender cases. Through the trope of recidivism, and through the ascription of dangerousness...
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Prostitution, sin and the law
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Brian Pullan
Published: 01 August 2016
... from sexual attack, and the lesser sin of ‘simple’ fornication be used to curb the far greater transgressions of adultery and sodomy. The chapter examines magistrates’ arrangements to license and to some extent protect recognised prostitutes, together with their agreements with brothel keepers...
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Published: 15 May 2021
...This chapter looks at the testimony of Antonio Valez, who was part of the group of men that was arrested and accused of getting married and conducting sodomy in a vineyard. It describes vineyards outside the city walls of Rome as the site of sexual activities, including the abduction and rape...
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Shakespeare, Race, and Queer Studies
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Mario DiGangi
Published: 23 January 2024
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