Before Lawrence v. Texas, a majority of states had already decriminalized homosexuality. The first state was Illinois in 1962, and an additional 36 states and Washington, D.C. followed suit before…

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Before Illinois decriminalized consensual sodomy between adults per Model Penal Code recommendation, homosexuality was illegal in all of the United States due to laws prohibiting sodomy, and those…

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