John Lawrence & Tyron Garner
• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
The arrest of John Lawrence and Tyron Garner by Texas cops led to the Supreme Court's zapping of Texas' sodomy law and plunged us into the current war being gay men and women against the religious zealots that vote Republican.
The men were arrested after police -- sent by a bogus report of an armed intruder -- burst into Lawrence's apartment and found them engaged in consensual sex. The pair was jailed overnight and charged with breaking Texas' Homosexual Conduct Law, which bans oral and anal sex between people of the same gender.
