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PRIDE director recounts legal challenge to Montana 'deviant conduct' law and warns of violence against LGBTQ people
Summary
Sandy Hale, executive director of PRIDE, described efforts to challenge Montana's deviant conduct statute, cited a 1994 district court ruling that found the law violated privacy, and recounted recent violent incidents and harassment against LGBTQ people in Missoula and statewide.
Sandy Hale, executive director of PRIDE (Montana's statewide civil‑rights organization for gay, lesbian and bisexual people), told a Missoula forum that Montana's "deviant sexual conduct" statute has been the "major stumbling block" to civil‑rights protections for LGBTQ people and that the law is now being challenged before the Montana Supreme Court.
Hale described a December 1993 challenge brought by three lesbians and three gay men; she said a…
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