Well, I just think, look, I'm not an expert, imagining myself into another life, I doubt my ability to maintain an

interaction after the police have burst into my home and held me at gunpoint you know? Welcome to you wrong about. I'm Sarah Marshall and today we are talking about

Lawrence v. Texas with our friend Marcus McCann. Marcus is a writer and a lawyer he

last was with us earlier this year to talk about George

Michael which was a wonderful sprawling two-parter that was about one man's life and

also pop music and also park cruising and also queer culture and coming of age and so much more than that.

That's kind of Marcus's thing because today we bring you the first of a two-parter where we are talking

about Lawrence v Texas, a 2003 Supreme Court decision that was of tremendous importance. I want to remind you, I guess,

said 2003, with regards to America's sodomy laws, specifically not to put too

fine a point on it, whether you're allowed to have gay sex in your own home.

So like some of our recent Supreme Court focused or adjacent episodes on the concept of originalism with Mackenzie Joy Brennan and also on the Jane

collective with Moira Donagen. This is an episode about how talking about the

law and its consequences is for all of us and is something that we must do or else we will see our lives and our rights decided by a bunch of people who are willing to sell their soul for an RV. And if you must sell your soul, sell it for something more interesting.

So this is an episode about an important period in American history,

an important decision in queer history, legal history in America, but it's also the kind

of episode of you're wrong about that you've been hearing all along with a very familiar

cast of characters, a police officer who sees things that no one else can apparently and to normal people just trying to have an ordinary day who stumble into an extraordinary legal battle and about what that battle does to them.

And that's about it. Welcome to Part 1. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for being here. If you want to hear bonus episodes, we have some on Patreon and Apple Plus subscriptions and we have one coming out later on this month about the mystery of

Somerton man. Something that has fascinated me for quite a while and if you're fascinated

I hope you check it out and if you don't know what I'm I hope you check it out.

And if you don't know what I'm talking about,

check it out as well.

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