David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality in the English Department at the University of Michigan and the author, most recently, of
Trevor Hoppe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and author of
David M. Halperin is W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality in the English Department at the University of Michigan and the author, most recently, of
Trevor Hoppe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University at Albany, State University of New York, and author of
Building a Movement for Justice: Doe v. Jindal and the Campaign against Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature Statute
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Published:March 2017
Alexis Agathocleous, 2017. "Building a Movement for Justice: Doe v. Jindal and the Campaign against Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature Statute", The War on Sex, David M. Halperin, Trevor Hoppe
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Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) statute expanded the state’s nineteenth-century sodomy statute to include offenses involving prostitution when it was adopted in 1982. Under CANS, Louisiana sent hundreds of people—primarily African American women, including transgender women, and gay men—to prison for years at a time merely for offering oral or anal sex for money. It then forced them to register as sex offenders. This article examines the powerful campaign that was launched in 2011 against the CANS law. In two short years, despite the state’s strenuous efforts to defend its archaic law, this campaign systematically and comprehensively dismantled this statute and its discriminatory effects.
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