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consensual homosexual conduct; for legislation barringdiscrimination against gays in housing and employment; and forgreater acceptance of homosexuals among the rest of the population.By 1999 the antisodomy laws of 32 states had been repealed ordeclared unconstitutional; in all but five of the remaining states,the antisodomy laws applied to both heterosexuals and homosexuals.The Supreme Court overturned all state antisodomy laws in 2003; itruled that a Texas law applying only to homosexuals wasunconstitutional, but at the same time the Court repudiated a 1986decision in which it had refused to extend the right of privacy toconsensual sexual acts.
