{"product_id":"the-many-passions-of-michael-hardwick-sex-and-the-supreme-court-in-the-age-of-aids-9781324035411","title":"The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichael 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 inspired a half-million people to protest, and the ruling became one of the most reviled of its time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday, \u003cem\u003eBowers v. Hardwick\u003c\/em\u003e reverberates again, as the rights of privacy underpinning legal abortion, contraception, and same-sex relationships come under fire. But the individual Michael Hardwick has faded from memory--his story has been relegated to legal arcana, with only a pale rendering of his life outside of the Supreme Court case. In \u003cem\u003eThe Many Passions of Michael Hardwick\u003c\/em\u003e, Martin Padgett assembles the complete kaleidoscope of Hardwick's life--as a child of Stonewall, as an artist, and as one of many thousands claimed by the HIV\/AIDS epidemic. Blending biography and history, Padgett traces how Hardwick became a political symbol, first by chance, then by his own choice, even when it made him an object of derision and scrutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the then-unopened archives of legal scholar Laurence Tribe--who argued Hardwick's case alongside the ACLU--to hours of new interviews with Hardwick's surviving family and friends, Padgett emerges with a story of someone who stood up for equality despite the infamy he knew would attach to him. He reveals how Hardwick forced America to come to grips with queer people--and to acknowledge its moral failures toward some of its most marginalized citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Many Passions of Michael Hardwick\u003c\/em\u003e, Martin Padgett reveals the halting shifts in American sexual politics over the last half-century, posing urgent questions about the deliberations of the Supreme Court, and returning to Hardwick the humanity stolen from him decades ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324035411\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368","brand":"Martin Padgett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276421226677,"sku":"9781324035411","price":27.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_dc76bffd-18d4-479e-ba01-ccb2f07bb1ac.jpg?v=1744123175","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-many-passions-of-michael-hardwick-sex-and-the-supreme-court-in-the-age-of-aids-9781324035411","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}