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Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983) p.111.
The Duke of York's Laws, including a capital sodomy provision (see 1665), were by an executive order of Governor Edmund Andros made operative in the area later to become Pennsylvania.[1] This law was next revised in 1682 LINK (see).
- ↑ 1676, Sept. 25: Pennsylvania "sodomy" law; Harry Elmer Barnes, The Evolution of Penology in Pennsylvania: A Study in American Social History (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1927), p. 29; Crompton, "Homosexuals," p. 282.
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