Sodomy's Solicitations: A Right to Queerness

Joseph Fischel’s provocative book, Sodomy’s Solicitations, builds out a politics of sexual justice that challenges state sex exceptionalism. By tracing several twenty-first century contestations around Louisiana anti-sodomy laws, Fischel examines patterns and practices of sexual injustice that are too easily eclipsed by our collective focus on marginalized identities.

The political stories narrated in Sodomy’s Solicitations are undoubtedly stories of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transph...