Gay Panic

“There was a voice that came from outside, but normally it’s inside my head,” the accused said. “At that moment, I wasn’t in control of myself. I was possessed.”

The maneuver is usually attempted when an LGBTQ person is killed by someone they recently had sex with.

Federal law requires all laws passed by the District to get congressional approval and the laws must be hand-delivered to Congress. The fence prevented the bill from being delivered on time.

Historic trans lawmaker Danica Roem & the mother of Matthew Shepard helped make Virginia the 12th state to ban the so-called defense.

Author Danica Roem credited Judy Shepard, the mother of the late Matthew Shepard, for spurring the legislation forward with her testimony.

Daryl Metcalfe has a long history of homophobia, but he’s sunk to a new low. Now he’s attacking his gay opponent’s husband.

The thug said the victim looked at his junk while he peed at a urinal.

He is accused of killing and dismembering his ex then storing the body parts in garbage bags in a garden shed.

The convicted killer says going home with a gay man caused him to strangle the victim and then cut open the body and stab the victim’s internal organs.

Finding out someone is queer is no excuse to kill them. If you’re that scared, run home to momma.

Dudebros may yuk it up, but word is, this retro reboot is just one bad homophobic joke after another.

Murder defendants will no longer be able to claim temporary insanity as the result of a homosexual advance.

A troubling trend puts a new spin on the idea of “bug chasing” or “gift giving.”

Assemblyman Tim Eustace says even though it’s unclear if such a defense has ever been used in New Jersey, he wants “to make sure that we’re paying attention to things before they happen.”

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday signed legislation that prohibits the so called “gay panic” defense from being used to escape murder charges. Current state law allows murder charges to be reduced to manslaughter if the killings happened in a sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Defendants could not escape murder charges by claiming they panicked when they discovered someone was gay or transgender under a bill headed to Gov. Jerry Brown. The state Assembly approved AB2501 on a 50-10 vote Wednesday.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A bill making its way through the California Legislature would prevent defendants from using a so-called “gay panic” defense to escape murder charges.

SAN FRANCISCO — The American Bar Association voted Monday in favor of a resolution urging state and federal lawmakers to pass legislation restricting the availability and effectiveness of the use of “gay panic” and “trans panic” defenses by criminal defendants.

A Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s decision rejecting use of the so-called “gay panic defense” in a case where the defendant attacked and severely beat another man for what he testified was unwanted sexual advances.