LGBT Civil Rights and Activism

Bowers v Hardwick came down in 1996.

In conjunction with the 1987 Gay Rights March on Washington, there was a nonviolent civil disobedience on the steps of the US Supreme Court, demanding that Bowers be overturned. (It eventually was, some 17 years later in Lawrence v Texas.)

There were 481 of us sitting on the steps, and we were arrested and held in DC lockup for 48 hours.

If the Supreme Court makes a definitive ruling against marriage equality (which I really don't expect in 2015, even with this court), I'd be very interested in getting together with anybody planning a nonviolent action there, especially anybody involved in the 1987 action, for a "reunion" of sorts.

We cannot sit idly by if they pull another Bowers.