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Four Iranian Men to be Executed for Sodomy

By Jason St. Amand | Thursday May 17, 2012
Four men in Iran have been sentenced to death because they committed sodomy.

Lawrence V. Texas’ Defendant, John Lawrence, Dies at 68

By Jason St. Amand | Friday Dec 23, 2011
John Lawrence, the defendant in the infamous Lawrence v. Texas case, which proved that country’s sodomy laws were unconstitutional, passed away in November.

MassEquality Backs Bill to Remove Sodomy Language from Law

By Jason Prokowiew | Friday Sep 16, 2011
Even though the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court struck down the Commonwealth’s sodomy law in 2002, MassEquality has backed a measure that would remove arcane language it contends could be used to potentially criminalize consensual same-sex conduct.
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