Description:LYONS AT THE GATE Further Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons Fresh off a reckless, injudicious, indiscreet, international romantic adventure (detailed in Lyons and Tigers and Bears) Judge Joe Lyons returns home to Boston to settle down and coast into retirement, peace and quiet. He hopes.The legal and Constitutional right of gay people to marry is being fought for in an elaborate chess game at the Statehouse and Courthouse on Beacon Hill in Boston, Joe Lyons' very neighborhood and workplace. While Joe is on a lark of his own (in the middle of the court day) at the Starbucks at the foot of Beacon Hill, Joe's fantasy, the forty something, sexy and sensible, classically chiseled, hirsute and beautiful, fourth grade teacher Angelo Bruno finds Joe Lyons and brings him romance, love passion and apparent stability.Despite this bliss, Joe still gets in trouble. Wicked Sam Nemesis, homophobe and judge hater, thinks that he has caught Joe lavender handed in a professional and personal scandal that, if true, would bring Joe down in a very public, humiliating and ugly way.With the help of his friends and colleagues the hapless Joe escapes disgrace---this time. However, he may have put himself back in hot water by the end of the story.The action in the book occurs mainly in Boston, but also in Fort Lauderdale, at a nude Beach near Miami, in Provincetown and at a gay commune elsewhere in Massachusetts.The book is handsomely illustrated with photographs and drawings.About the AuthorDermot Meagher was a judge of the Boston Municipal Court, the oldest trial court in Massachusetts for seventeen years. Before that he was an assistant district attorney, a bail reformer, a court reformer and he taught Criminal Law and Procedure to police officers. He also had a private law practice at various times. He was First Assistant Bar Counsel at the Massachusett Board of Bar Overseers immediately before becoming a judge and was a volunteer member of the City of Boston Human Rights Commission. When he was appointed in 1989 he was the first openly gay judge in Massachusetts. He has been active in a number of gay political and social organizations, including the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), of which he was a member of the board of directors, the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association (MLGBA), of which he was one of the founders, and was a member the AIDS Action Committee Legal Services Committee. He was also one of the founders of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL) of Massachusetts. He is the author of Lyons and Tigers and Bears/ a Judge Joe Lyons Mystery, Judge Sentences/Tales from the Bench and co-author, with Robert Coles, M.D. and Joseph Brenner, M.D. of Drugs and Youth. Dermot Meagher graduated from Harvard College, Boston College Law School, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and was a Fellow at the Harvard Law School Center for Criminal Justice funded by the Ford foundation. He is also an artist and shows his drawings, paintings and prints at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown and other venues in New England and Florida.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lyons at the Gate: Further Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons (The Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons). To get started finding Lyons at the Gate: Further Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons (The Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Lyons at the Gate: Further Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons (The Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons)
Description: LYONS AT THE GATE Further Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons Fresh off a reckless, injudicious, indiscreet, international romantic adventure (detailed in Lyons and Tigers and Bears) Judge Joe Lyons returns home to Boston to settle down and coast into retirement, peace and quiet. He hopes.The legal and Constitutional right of gay people to marry is being fought for in an elaborate chess game at the Statehouse and Courthouse on Beacon Hill in Boston, Joe Lyons' very neighborhood and workplace. While Joe is on a lark of his own (in the middle of the court day) at the Starbucks at the foot of Beacon Hill, Joe's fantasy, the forty something, sexy and sensible, classically chiseled, hirsute and beautiful, fourth grade teacher Angelo Bruno finds Joe Lyons and brings him romance, love passion and apparent stability.Despite this bliss, Joe still gets in trouble. Wicked Sam Nemesis, homophobe and judge hater, thinks that he has caught Joe lavender handed in a professional and personal scandal that, if true, would bring Joe down in a very public, humiliating and ugly way.With the help of his friends and colleagues the hapless Joe escapes disgrace---this time. However, he may have put himself back in hot water by the end of the story.The action in the book occurs mainly in Boston, but also in Fort Lauderdale, at a nude Beach near Miami, in Provincetown and at a gay commune elsewhere in Massachusetts.The book is handsomely illustrated with photographs and drawings.About the AuthorDermot Meagher was a judge of the Boston Municipal Court, the oldest trial court in Massachusetts for seventeen years. Before that he was an assistant district attorney, a bail reformer, a court reformer and he taught Criminal Law and Procedure to police officers. He also had a private law practice at various times. He was First Assistant Bar Counsel at the Massachusett Board of Bar Overseers immediately before becoming a judge and was a volunteer member of the City of Boston Human Rights Commission. When he was appointed in 1989 he was the first openly gay judge in Massachusetts. He has been active in a number of gay political and social organizations, including the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), of which he was a member of the board of directors, the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association (MLGBA), of which he was one of the founders, and was a member the AIDS Action Committee Legal Services Committee. He was also one of the founders of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL) of Massachusetts. He is the author of Lyons and Tigers and Bears/ a Judge Joe Lyons Mystery, Judge Sentences/Tales from the Bench and co-author, with Robert Coles, M.D. and Joseph Brenner, M.D. of Drugs and Youth. Dermot Meagher graduated from Harvard College, Boston College Law School, the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and was a Fellow at the Harvard Law School Center for Criminal Justice funded by the Ford foundation. He is also an artist and shows his drawings, paintings and prints at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown and other venues in New England and Florida.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lyons at the Gate: Further Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons (The Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons). To get started finding Lyons at the Gate: Further Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons (The Adventures of Judge Joe Lyons), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.