Justice Alito described the arguments for abortion rights in Roe v. Wade as being based on "women's ideas" and "much more abstract" than the issues in the Obergefell same-sex marriage case

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The Women's House of Detention housed a substantial population of queer women and transgender men

The first organized public protest conducted by the Gay Liberation Front targeted the Women's House of Detention

During the June 1969 Stonewall riots, incarcerated women inside the Women's House of Detention threw burning cigarette packets and papers out their windows while shouting 'gay rights.'

During the 1950s Lavender Scare, the United States federal government conducted widespread purges of homosexual employees

Staff at the Women's House of Detention stamped the letter D on uniforms of women incarcerated for homosexual acts or perceived butch gender expression

Historian Hugh Ryan authored 'The Women's House of D: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison.'

The Gay Liberation Front formed immediately after the June 1969 Stonewall riots, deriving its name from the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam

The Gay Liberation Front was among the organizing groups responsible for the first Pride March held on the first anniversary of the Stonewall riots

The United States Supreme Court blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons from enforcing President Donald Trump's executive order restricting healthcare for transgender inmates

President Donald Trump issued an executive order seeking to prevent transgender inmates in federal prisons from receiving hormone treatments and social accommodations

The Texas Legislature enacted legislation barring transgender student athletes from competing on scholastic sports teams aligned with their gender identity

The Texas Legislature enacted a statutory abortion ban during the 2021 legislative session

The Texas Legislature passed legislation enacting a blanket ban on transgender youth participating in school sports

Production of the 1992 film 'Basic Instinct' in San Francisco encountered public protests from LGBT advocacy organizations

The cultural shift of the late 1960s was influenced by the Vietnam War, psychedelic drugs, and the birth control pill

In a CBS interview, Justice Alito stated that the overruling of Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision will not lead to the overruling of Obergefell v. Hodges

Justice Alito asserted that the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision required courage from all justices in the majority

Justice Alito stated in an interview that he has lost friends as a result of the Dobbs decision

Justice Alito's book identifies a flawed interpretive method he calls "Icarian originalism," using originalist defenses of Obergefell as an example

Justice Alito calls the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision on same-sex marriage "perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against religious liberty."