Missouri's Harsh Gay Sex Laws Challenged

september 20, 2002  01:33 pm
Missouri's Harsh Gay Sex Laws Challenged
Six men accused of having sex in the "video-viewing" backrooms of a porn shop are the reluctant crusaders to reform sex laws in Missouri, one of only four states that still bans gay sex. Missouri would just as soon they went away. One of the accused says the prosecutors told him, "Look, if you cooperate, it will go away. ... If you don't cooperate, we're going to parade you and your family and everybody through the media and make your life a living hell." They're ready for hell, writes Bruce Rushton in the Riverfront Times.