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LGBT rights in Colorado
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons in the U.S. state of Colorado live in one of the more socially liberal US states with wider protections for LGBT people. Same-sex sexual activity is legal in Colorado and the state recognizes same-sex marriages.
==Law regarding same-sex sexual activity==
In 1860 sodomy was made illegal in Colorado – then the Jefferson Territory – under its first criminal code, which indirectly prohibited sodomy by expressly recognizing English common law, under which the maximum penalty for sodomy was death. In 1861, the United States Congress created the Colorado Territory, whose government enacted a criminal code that punished sodomy, defined by English common law, with penalties ranging from one year to life in prison. In 1922 the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the ban did not prohibit fellatio, even through the court felt that the behavior was "more vile and filthy than sodomy".〔''The Pacific Reporter'', vol. 263, 22: Robinson v. People, 23 Colo. 123, 46 p. 676〕 The law was revised in 1939 to expressly cover anal sex and fellatio, and the maximum penalty was reduced to fourteen years. In 1953, Colorado enacted a psychopathic offender law that provided for indefinite institutionalization for committing sex crimes, thus putting homosexuals in the same category as rapists and child molesters. In 1970, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that the ban also included cunnilingus.
In 1971 Colorado revised its penal code and decriminalized sodomy in cases that involved non-commercial, private acts between consenting adults. At the same time it instituted a public indecency law that banned public displays of affection between same-sex couples. The Colorado Supreme Court struck down that statute in 1974.
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