 Also, in 2002, Equality Mississippi partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi to publish the "Mississippi Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Series", a three booklet series covering how Mississippi law affected the lives of gay and lesbian Mississippians.In 2003, Equality Mississippi submitted an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas.In the case, the Court struck down a Texas state law banning private consensual sex between adults of the same sex in a decision gay rights groups hailed as historic.