# Michael Hardwick

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073: Presidios and Soldados in California Part 1 | Author Michael Hardwick

In this episode, I delve into the often overlooked history of the Spanish Presidios in California with expert Michael Hardwick, author of Spanish Arms and Armaments of the Presidios in California.  Michael shares his extensive research on Spanish military fortifications during the colonial period. …

074: Pirates in California? | Michael Hardwick Part 2

In the second part of my interview with Michael Hardwick, we hear about Hippolyte Bouchard, a pirate who raided California's coast, and learn about the history of the Spanish and Mexican presidios. This episode explores sea battles, invasions, and the armaments used during California's conquest and…

Bowers v. Hardwick (Interview w/ Martin Padgett)

This week, I am SO excited to share a conversation that I had with Marty Padgett about this new book, The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS. Sodomy laws had been used to discriminate against queer people for centuries, but in 1986, the US Supreme Court …

The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick: Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of AIDS by Martin Padgett

Michael Hardwick had no idea that when a police officer stood at his bedroom door on August 3, 1982, he would become a face of the gay rights movement. Arrested for sodomy, Hardwick sued for his right to privacy to the Supreme Court, even as the HIV/AIDS epidemic began to take its toll. When he los…

08/19/ 2025 Author Martin Padgett re: "The Many Passions of Michael Hardwick"

Local author Martin Padgett joins PEP Talk with Meg to talk about his newly published non-fiction book entitled: "The Many Passsions of Michael Hardwick, Sex and the Supreme Court in the Age of Aids".  Marty discusses how he became a writer, reseraching the book and the impact of Michael Hardwick's…

ICE raids Hyundai plant; Atlanta public schools to merge; Michael Hardwick book

On the Friday September 5th edition of Georgia Today: Workers are detained in a massive immigration raid at a Hyundai plant in Bryan County; Atlanta Public Schools are planning a merge; And a new book profiles the story of an Atlanta man whose arrest and trial made him an icon of the LGBTQ communit…

Martin Padgett

In this episode of Hear-Tell, Martin Padgett illuminates the complicated, very human life of Michael Hardwick—the Atlanta man at the center of Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), the Supreme Court decision that upheld state sodomy laws and galvanized LGBTQ+ activism, decades before Lawrence v. Texas overtur…

Sex, Identity, and a Fight for Survival

Sex, Identity, and The Fight for Basic Rights Two landmark cases that overturned the targeted attempts on the part of states across the United States to criminalize being queer. In 1982 and 1998, both Michael Hardwick, John Geddes Lawrence Jr., and Tyron Garner were arrested for having sex in the …

Sex, Identity, and a Fight for Survival

Sex, Identity, and The Fight for Basic Rights Two landmark cases that overturned the targeted attempts on the part of states across the United States to criminalize being queer. In 1982 and 1998, both Michael Hardwick, John Geddes Lawrence Jr., and Tyron Garner were arrested for having sex in the …