Contents:
A crime of deep malignity;
The city and the cause;
The defendants and the troublemaker;
The department and the deputies;
The intrusion;
Uncivil disobedience;
A probable explanation for an improbable case;
The homosexual status law;
From the jail to the bar;
From the gay bar to the bar;
Into the Texas courts;
The constitutional case takes shape;
The politics of law;
The constitutional mainstream;
Mismatch at the Supreme Court;
Respect for their private lives;
Epilogue : sweet land of liberty.