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Martin Padgett

Martin Padgett
Martin Padgett is the author of A Night at the Sweet Gum Head and The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS. Recipient of a Lambda Literary Fellowship, his writing has appeared in the Oxford American, The Paris Review, and TheWashington Post, among other publications. He lives in Pensacola Beach, Florida.


Courting Fatal Passions: How Michael Hardwick Helped Overturn America’s Sodomy Laws

Martin Padgett Recounts a Paradigm-Shifting Legal Case in Georgia
June 12, 2025  By Martin Padgett
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