The gay panic defense or homosexual advance defence is a victim blaming strategy of legal defense, which refers to a situation in which a heterosexual...

Glauert, Rik (17 April 2019). "Nevada moves towards banning 'gay panic' defense". Gay Star News. Archived from the original on 20 May 2019. Retrieved...

over violence toward gay people. Schmitz's use of the gay panic defense in his criminal trial drew sharp criticism from many gay rights advocates. Amedure's...

Bans 'Gay Panic' Defense of Homicide". US News. Olympia. March 6, 2020. "Washington approves Nikki Kuhnhausen Bill to ban 'gay panic' defense of homicide"...

Attorney General Kamala Harris co-sponsored legislation to ban the gay and trans panic defense in court, which passed and California became the first state...

manslaughter. In at least one of the trials, a "trans panic defense"—an extension of the gay panic defense—was employed. Merél and Magidson were sentenced to...

arrested. Schmitz was charged with first-degree murder. He utilized the gay panic defense, in which he claimed that he killed Amedure over embarrassment about...

Senate vote 47-0) passed a bill (HB231) to abolish the common-law gay or trans panic defense. Governor Larry Hogan took no action on the bill (HB231) and the...

Homosexual panic as a mental health disorder is distinct from the victim blaming homosexual panic defense (HPD) (also known as the gay panic defense) within...

want a lawyer who's going to win for me". Affluenza Chewbacca defense Gay panic defense The San Ysidro McDonald's massacre, blamed by the gunman's widow...

minors. In July 2020, Colorado became the 11th US state to abolish the gay panic defense. Colorado is frequently referred to as one of the most LGBT-friendly...

25-year-old David Self. His case achieved notoriety because of his failed gay panic defense. Ultimately, his conviction was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court and...

Representatives unanimously passed a bill by a vote of 95–0 to abolish the gay panic defence. The Iowa House of Representatives has passed this legislation...

toward banning 'gay panic' murder defense". Politico. November 25, 2019. "New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy bans 'gay panic' legal defense". January 22, 2020...

Minnesota Senate just barely passed a bill to abolish the archaic “gay and trans panic defense”, by an extremely close vote of 34-33. The bill previously passed...

LGBTQ is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer". It may refer to anyone who is non-heterosexual, non-heteroromantic...

housing and public accommodations, and both conversion therapy and the gay panic defense are outlawed in the state. Connecticut is regarded as one of the most...

motel rooms and friends' houses. Cottrell's defense attorney employed what is called a gay panic defense, arguing that Phillips's own actions "led to...

Illinois General Assembly unanimously passed SB1761 to repeal the gay and trans panic defense. Governor Bruce Rauner signed the bill into law on August 25...

applies to all public schools. In June 2018, a bill to repeal the gay and trans panic defense passed the Rhode Island General Assembly by a vote of 68–2 in...

a gay man who was killed during an assault by an 20-year-old man in 2008. The men charged in the two cases attempted to use the gay panic defense. The...

Students Act. More recently, he led the charge to repeal 50-A and the gay panic defense and authored legislation making all public, single-occupancy bathrooms...

cold blood gets out very quickly…." Canadian MLA Spencer Herbert The Gay Panic Defense has at times been adduced to plea for more lenient punishments for...

the bill was reintroduced in both houses of Congress as the Gay and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2019 (S.1721 and H.R.3133). it has been reintroduced...

women. During the 1950s with the anti-gay politics of the McCarthy era, there was an increase in violent attacks on gay and bisexual women, while at the same...

state.nh.us. "NH House eliminates 'gay panic defense' for murder". January 8, 2022. "House Eliminates 'Gay Panic Defense' for Murder". January 6, 2022. "After...

2022. Beemyn, Brett Genny (2008). "Genderqueer". glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture. Chicago, Illinois: glbtq...

festival, pride march, or pride protest) is an event celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) social and self-acceptance, achievements...

cultural and family institutions largely replaced earlier panic over the "Homintern", an alleged gay conspiracy to undermine the U.S. government. The term...

undercover to infiltrate a gay nightclub, and its negative depictions of gay men that seem to justify a gay panic defense from Pacino's character. Straight...