I was there that day as well, and spent the night at a hotel not far from yours. I marched with Act Up and also participated in a rally at the Vietnam War Memorial with a gay veteran friend of mine. Lots of gay veterans groups had come that day to honor friends and loved ones who had died in Vietnam. Mounted police tried to stop us from approaching the memorial and taking rubbings of names as is the custom.

Things got kind of ugly, but as you can imagine with the size of the crowds, the police ended up having to back off.

I admire you a lot for having that courage to participate in that sodomy lawsuit. A lot of people are amazed that such a thing would be necessary, that the later Lawrence v Texas would be necessary. But even today, some states refuse to take sodomy laws off their books even though they can no longer enforce them. I wrote not long ago about a couple of states doing their best to indirectly enforce sodomy laws.

Given than privacy rather than equal treatment is the basis for Lawrence, its survival is not completely assured. We know some justices on the current conservative Supreme Court believe Roe v Wade was decided based on incorrect constitutional understandings of privacy. We know they are interested in seeing Roe overturned.

If the Court decides to do that, to invalidate the privacy foundations that hold up Roe, then Lawrence will rest on air.