Last edited: March 28, 2004

 

Wisconsin

  • Statute: Repealed 1983

History

            1959     Wisconsin enacts the nation’s only law forbidding those convicted of sodomy from obtaining a driver’s license.

            1966     Wisconsin Young Democrats become the first political organization in the United States to endorse repeal of sodomy laws. The state’s Republican Governor refers to them as “homocrats.”

            1983     Wisconsin repeals its sodomy law, but, in order to get enough votes to get it through the legislature, must include a disclaimer that the state does not encourage sex outside of marriage, the only such law in the nation.


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