The Gay/Trans Panic Defense: What It is, and How to End It

Contents:

• THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• GAY RIGHTS
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT

The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence. The ACLU Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Project seeks to create a jt society for all LGBTQ people regardls of race or e.

Over the urse of lbian, gay, or bisexual people's lifetim, one five will experience hate crim, and one four transgenr people will as dividuals at the tersectn of homophobia, transphobia, and racism, face worse statistics. As of July 1, 2019, eight stat have passed legislative bans on the e of gay/trans panic as a legal fense: California, Illois, Rho Island, Nevada, Connecticut, Mae, Hawaii, and New York. It mt be noted that gay/trans panic is not an affirmative legal fense; is a tactic to strengthen the fense by playg on prejudice.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

Dpe bunkg "gay panic disorr, " and s removal om the DSM by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn 1973, legal fense teams ntue to e the 1954 murr of William T.

Simpson North Miami, FL, the fendants claimed that they shot Simpson, a gay man, while "ristg his advanc, " th utilizg the provotn fense.

Even though the fendants were crimals who equented that area of highway to rob drivers, and tentnally targeted homosexual victims, the fendants were nvicted of manslghter rather than first-gree murr. The fense aga utilized the provotn fense, cg that the nature of the note and Amre's homosexualy was enough to send Schmz to a panic and kill Amre. The gay/trans panic fense was emed admissible, not due to the illegimacy of the gay/trans panic fense, but stead due to Wyomg's statutory sany fense nstct.

GAY RIGHTS

Currently, there are several other state legislative efforts to ban and nounce the legimacy of the gay/trans panic fense. Help to end this discrimatn by supportg legislative bans on the gay/trans panic steps you n, and should, take are as follows:Contact legislators and ernors stat currently tryg to ban the gay/trans panic fense.

Be sure to reach out to feral legislators as an advote stat where there is currently no proposed gay/trans panic ban your own policians know that equaly unr the law should apply to the victims of hate crim as well. The Gage Law Firm is gay-owned and operated and is a proud and vol supporter of Atlanta's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

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CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

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But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial. ” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist. The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn.

”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

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The Natnal LGBTQ+ Bar Associatn is a natnal associatn of lawyers, judg and other legal profsnals, law stunts, activists and affiliated lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr legal anizatns. The missn of the ACLU LGBT Project is the creatn of a society which lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people enjoy the nstutnal rights of equaly, privacy and personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn. Equaly California and s sister anizatns, Equaly California Instute and Equaly California PAC, share a mon missn to ensure and promote digny, safety and equaly for all of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Californians.

GLAAD is dited to promotg and ensurg fair, accurate and clive reprentatn of people and events the media as a means of elimatg homophobia and discrimatn based on genr inty and sexual orientatn. Providg ligatn, advocy, and tnal work all areas of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer civil rights and the rights of people livg wh HIV, GLAD has a full-time legal staff and a work of operatg attorneys across New England. As the largt natnal lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights anizatn, HRC envisns a world where LGBTQ people are ensured of their basic equal rights, and n be open, hont and safe at home, at work and the muny.

Sce 1994, Immigratn Equaly has been proud to advote for and reprent lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer (LGBTQ), and HIV-posive immigrants seekg safety, fair treatment, and eedom. For more than 20 years, we have been foced on providg ee direct legal servic to lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and HIV-posive immigrants.

Found 1973, Lambda Legal is the olst and largt natnal legal anizatn whose missn is to achieve full regnn of the civil rights of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgenr people and everyone livg wh HIV through impact ligatn, tn and public policy work. LeGaL was one of the natn’s first bar associatns of the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr legal muny and remas one of the largt and most active anizatns of s kd the untry. Log Cab has bee a leadg voice on the natnal stage workg to te other Republins and all elected officials about the importance of gay and lbian civil rights.

The Natnal Black Jtice Coaln (NBJC) is a civil rights anizatn dited to the empowerment of Black lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and same genr lovg (LGBTQ/SGL) people, cludg people livg wh HIV/AIDS.

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