ABSTRACT
Although the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender(LGBT) civil rights movement has made enormous progress politically in the United States since the end of World War II, especially in changing public attitudes and working with elected officials, the policy issues that most concern LGBT persons remain very much the same. The most important are employment discrimination, marriage, and military service. Sodomy laws remained on the list until June 2003, when the United States Supreme Court overturned its 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision as part of a decision, Lawrence v. Texas, striking down the Texas state sodomy law, and, by implication, all sodomy laws.
