We Won!

January, 2004

This past summer the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Texas law that banned gay sex. Activists hailed the ruling as a triumph for gay rights. We greeted it as the final victory of the sexual revolution. Besides the practical aspects of the decision, which overturned sodomy laws in 13 states (nine of which banned oral and anal sex for straights as well as gays), it validated a core belief of this magazine: that sex between two or more consenting adults is a basic human right and no business of the...