Homosexuality And The European Court Of Human Rights?is The First Book-length Study Of The Court's Jurisprudence In Respect Of Sexual Orientation. It Offers A Socio-legal Analysis Of The Substantial Number Of Decisions And Judgments Of The Strasbourg Organs On The Wide Range Of Complaints Brought By Gay Men And Lesbians Under The European Convention On Human Rights. Providing A Systematic Analysis Of Strasbourg Case Law Since 1955 And Examining Decades Of Decisions That Have Hitherto Remained Obscure, The Book Considers The Evolution Of The Court's Interpretation Of The Conv Emerging Voices : Homosexuality And The Commission, 1955-1980 -- An Ontological Struggle : The Court And The Homosexual Since 1981 -- Homosexuality In The Judicial Laboratory : Instruments, Interpretations, And Evolutions -- An Essentially Private Manifestation Of The Human Personality : The Limitations Of Article 8 -- The Anti-discrimination Provisions Of The Convention : Article 14 And Protocol 12 -- A Right To Marriage? Same-sex Relationships And Article 12 -- Expression, Assembly, And Association : Articles 10 And 11 -- Humiliation And Debasement : Degrading Treatment And Article 3. Paul Johnson. A Glasshouse Book. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [215]-223) And Index. English