Governing sexuality, constituting states -- Engendering social problems, exposing sexuality's effects on biopolitical states -- State scripts : antisodomy law and the annals of law and law enforcement -- "Half truths" : racializations, habitual criminals, and the police -- Pivoting toward the state : phase one of the struggle against section -- State versus sexuality : decriminalizing and recriminalizing homosexuality in the postliberalized context.