Before Lawrence v. Texas2024 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association 2024 Award of Merit, The Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize The grassroots queer activism and legal challenges that led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of gay and lesbian equality. In 2003 the US Supreme Court overturned anti sodomy laws across the country, ruling in Lawrence v. Texas that the Constitution protects private consensual sex between