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In 1986, in Bowers v. Hardwick, the Supreme Court upheld state anti-sodomy laws.

Supreme Court ruled that there was no constitutional right to engage in homosexual acts,

and that states could ban gay sex and arrest gay men.

The details, the actual case is infuriating.

A bigoted Atlanta cop with a personal beef against a gay bartender went to that bartender's

apartment to serve an invalid warrant and walked into that guy's bedroom where he was having

sex with his boyfriend at the time.

He arrested them both on the spot for violating Georgia's anti-sodomies statute.

The Bauer's decision said that that cop had every right to do so, that gay men did not have a

right to privacy, that Georgia had every right to throw gay men in prison for having sex with each other.

Prison, where, as David Letterman joked on the night, the Bauer's decision came down, prison,

where no one ever has gay sex. I had to wait a whole day to read the actual decision.

It was 1986, so it wasn't online right away because there was no online.

I was at a rehearsal the next day, and rehearsal came to a stop when someone carried in a pile of newspapers.

The New York Times published the decision in full. The room went silent, as everyone read.

Some of us wept. All of us were furious. We were being told by the Supreme

Court, by our own government, again, that our bodies weren't our own, that we couldn't make

our own choices about our own bodies, that we remained second-class citizens. It was devastating.

Last week, devastating news from that same court.

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