Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons Faculty Scholarship 1-1-2005 Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics Dean Spade Craig Willse Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty Part of the Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Law and Gender Commons, and the Law and Society Commons Recommended Citation Dean Spade and Craig Willse, Freedom in a Regulatory State?: Lawrence, Marriage and Biopolitics, 11 WIDENER L. REV. 309 (2005). https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty/632 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. FREEDOM IN A REGULATORY STATE?: LAWRENCE, MARRIAGE AND BIOPOLITICS CRAIG WILLSE" AND DEAN SPADE*" I. INTRODUCTION This paper questions the status granted Lawrence v. Texas' by LGBT2 legal * Craig Willse is a student in Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. His research interests include science and technology studies, political economy, and the sociology of biomedicine. He has been an adjunct instructor in sociology and women's studies at Hunter College. ** Dean Spade is a transgender attorney, and founder of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a law collective providing direct legal assistance to low-income people and people of color facing gender identity discrimination. He thanks the many people whose comments and dialogue contributed to ideas in this article, including Kendall Thomas, Gael Gundin Guevara, Rickke Mananzala, Sonja Sivesind, Paisley Currah, Urvashi Vaid, and Jody Marksamer.