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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.