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28 B.U. J. Sci. & Tech. L. 135 (2022)
LGBT Recovery for Intrusions on Privacy: Revisiting Privacy Tort Doctrine Post-Obergefell

handle is hein.journals/jstl28 and id is 151 raw text is: ARTICLE LGBT RECOVERY FOR INTRUSIONS ON PRIVACY: REVISITING PRIVACY TORT DOCTRINE POST- OBERGEFELL QUINN HEATH CONTENTS INTRODUCTION................................................................................................136 I. HISTORY AND CURRENT STATE OF LAW SURROUNDING PRIVACY TORTS AND THE LGBT COMMUNITY ......................................................................138 A. Privacy Tort Doctrine and Its Relation to the LGBT Community .. 138 1. Intrusion Upon Seclusion ........................................................140 2. Appropriation...........................................................................140 3. Publicity Given to Private Fact ................................................141 4. Publicity Placing Person in False Light...................................142 5. Summary of Difficulties Faced by LGBT Plaintiffs under Privacy Tort Doctrine ............................................................143 B. Development of LGBT Recognition under the Law ........................144 1. Recognition of an LGBT Privacy Interest in Lawrence v. Texas ...............................................................................................144 2. Impact and Holding of Obergefell and Its Expansion of the LGBT Dignitary Interest........................................................146 3. Expansion of Employment Rights in Bostock .........................148 4. Application of Lawrence and Obergefell to Privacy Tort Doctrine .................................................................................149 II. OTHER CHALLENGES FACED BY LGBT PLAINTIFFS BRINGING PRIVACY TORT CLAIMS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS ...........................................151 A. The Selective Disclosure Interest ...............................................151 B. Societal Changes and Their Impact under Privacy Tort Doctrine .153 1. Current Discrimination Against LGBT People .......................153 2. Inherent Value of Privacy Protection.......................................154 C. Modern Technological Developments and Their Impact on Privacy and the LGBT Community ...........................................................155 CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................156 135