Bruce William Nickerson, Date of Birth

Bruce William Nickerson

American activist

Date of Birth: 21-Jun-1941

Profession: lawyer, human rights activist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Bruce William Nickerson (born June 21, 1941) is a civil rights and gay rights attorney in California.
He is also a leading authority on lewd conduct law in the United States.
He has operated a solo legal practice in San Carlos, California for most of the last 40 years and has recently commenced working more closely with Dr.
C.
Scott Lopez-Gelormino, a human and civil rights attorney, epidemiologist, and clinical psychologist with whom he has worked on numerous cases over the last decade. Nickerson is recognized as having "made a sort of mini-career out of defending these cases" on lewd conduct and police sting operations targeting gay men.
Openly gay himself, he has argued in front of the California Supreme Court and U.S.
Federal Circuit courts regarding civil rights issues affecting gay people.
In the late 2000s, he was interviewed by Bill O'Reilly on Fox News regarding a series of cases which he had been arguing on behalf of several hundred defendants related to a sting operation targeting gay men in Fresno, California.