Section 46 of the Criminal Code of the Colorado Territory establishing "crimes against nature" (1861)
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Title
Section 46 of the Criminal Code of the Colorado Territory establishing "crimes against nature" (1861)
Subject
sodomy, crimes against nature
Description
Section 46 of the Criminal Code of Colorado, established in 1861. It made "crimes against nature" (which typically included sodomy) a crime in the newly established Colorado Territory. The law would be revised several times, until it was revised out of the criminal code in 1971.
Creator
Colorado Territorial Legislature
Source
Colorado Session Laws, William A. Wise Law Library, CU Boulder
Date
1861
Contributor
Thomas R. Dunn (researcher)
Rights
Public domain -- published before 1926
Format
JEPG, PDF
Language
English
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
paper
Files
Collection
Citation
Colorado Territorial Legislature, “Section 46 of the Criminal Code of the Colorado Territory establishing "crimes against nature" (1861),” Northern Colorado Queer Memory Project, accessed February 8, 2023, https://nocoqueermemory.omeka.net/items/show/152.