Michael Hardwick had no idea that when a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, he would become a face of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right to privacy all the way to the Supreme Court, even as the HIV/AIDS epidemic began its toll. When he lost, his era-defining case [Bowers v. Hardwick] inspired a half-million people to protest, and the ruling became one of the most reviled of its time.
The little-known story of the man who sparked a groundswell of gay activism after a wrongly decided Supreme Court decision.
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