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BILLS STATE HOE AND SENATE AIM TO STRIKE ‘GAY PANIC’ DEFENSE OM MICHIGAN LAW
Moss is the lead sponsor of SB 4 and the only openly gay member of the Senate. The LGBTQ+ panic fense, known prevly as the gay panic fense, has been ed historilly as an attempt to jtify vlence agast LGBTQ+ persons simply bee of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. For example, allows for the fendant to claim they were provoked to mtg vlence agast a gay man bee said homosexual told him he had a nice ass.
“One of the biggt misnceptns the public is that gay men or trans women are sort of up to somethg nefar or that they are predators, ” Andren told Michigan Rad.
Christe Geiger, the owner of Stud 8 Hair Lab Traverse Cy, told lol outlet 9&10 News that she is OK wh lbian, gay and bisexual people but ref to e preferred pronouns and has a right to ny jt weeks after the U. The 1977 law ma illegal to discrimate on the basis of relign, race, age, weight, sex and other characteristics; was expand earlier this year to clu genr inty and recent Supreme Court cisn sidg wh a webse signer who refed to serve a hypothetil gay uple, 303 Creative v. "We are not askg for anythg more than anyone else has but we are also not gog to accept anythg ls than equal protectn unr the law, " Moss, who is gay and attend the Friday roundtable, said a statement released by Whmer's office.