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 Courting
Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians V. the Supreme Court
by Joyce Murdoch 0465015131
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Journalists Deb Price and Joyce Murdoch are authors of the
groundbreaking book Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the
Supreme Court, a 50-year history of how the U.S. Supreme Court has
dealt with gay rights. The book won the 2002 Lambda Literary Foundation
award for gay studies and The Washington Post’s Book World hailed it as
one of its “Raves and Faves” of 2001.
Joyce Murdoch, a former Washington Post editor and reporter, is now a
managing editor at National Journal magazine, the weekly political
bible for Washington insiders. She is also a 2005 Hoover Institution
Media Fellow. Deb Price, a Washington correspondent for The Detroit
News, has been writing the first nationally syndicated column on gay
and lesbian issues in mainstream newspapers for nearly 13 years.
In this book they explore the history of attempts by homosexuals to
petition the U.S. Supreme Court to expand the protection of the
Constitution to cover gay rights. As one would expect from a pair of
journalists, much of the history focuses on the people involved, but
the societal and legal issues involved are not given short shrift. The
history follows cases from the 1958 decision upholding a gay magazine's
right to be distributed in the mails to the 2000 decision upholding the
Boy Scouts' legal right to discriminate against homosexuals.
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