Bruce William Nickerson

Who is Bruce William Nickerson?

Bruce William Nickerson 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 currently operates a solo legal practice in San Carlos, California.

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.