Winter 1985: The editors of Between C and D magazine, Joel Rose and Catherine Texier, invite David to create multiple covers of the publication.
David also works with Marion Scemama to create a photograph in which he appears to be the victim of “queer bashing” with text inspired by the case Bowers v. Hardwick for the interior of Between C & D.
The case works its way through Georgia’s courts before being accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1985. The landmark 1986 decision— Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186—upholds the constitutionality of Georgia’s law criminalizing sodomy (oral and anal sex) in private between consenting adults (whether homosexual or heterosexual). A statute the Georgia Supreme Court will strike down in 1998.
