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

Contents:

• HONG KONG SHOULD BE GOG ALL OUT TO ENSURE THE GAY GAM ARE A SUCCS
• LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
• THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE: WHAT IT IS, AND HOW TO END IT
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

HONG KONG SHOULD BE GOG ALL OUT TO ENSURE THE GAY GAM ARE A SUCCS

The number of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or queer (LGBTQ) lawyers at Amerin law firms ntu to grow slowly, acrdg to an annual survey by the Natnal Associatn for Law Placement. LGBT Reprentatn Among Lawyers 2016 (NALP Bullet, January 2017) — The overall percentage of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) lawyers reported the NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE) 2016 creased by a small amount to 2.

LGBT Reprentatn Among Lawyers 2015 (NALP Bullet, December 2015) — The overall percentage of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) lawyers reported the NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE) 2015 creased by a very small amount to 2. New Rearch on Employment Out for Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Graduat (NALP Bullet, November 2015) — LGBT graduat are much ls likely to take a job private practice and much more likely to take a job wh a public tert anizatn.

LGBT Reprentatn Among Lawyers 2014 (NALP Bullet, March 2015) — The overall percentage of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) lawyers reported the NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE) 2014 creased to 2.

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

LGBT Reprentatn Up Aga 2013 (NALP Bullet, January 2014) — The overall percentage of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) lawyers reported the NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE) 2013 creased to 2.

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

LGBT Reprentatn Up 2012 (NALP Bullet, January 2013) — The overall percentage of openly gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) lawyers reported the NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE) 2012 creased to 2. Most Firms Collect LGBT Lawyer Informatn, LGBT Reprentatn Steady (NALP Bullet, December 2011) — The overall percentage of openly gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) lawyers reported the NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE) 2011 remaed unchanged pared to 2010. Most Firms Collect LGBT Lawyer Informatn — LGBT Reprentatn Up Slightly (NALP Bullet, December 2010) — The overall percentage of openly lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) lawyers reported the NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE) 2010 rose pared to 2009.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

Data provid by 39 of the untry’s largt firms found that the tr took the top three spots, wh at least 10% of their lawyers intifyg as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer or other sexual orientatns or genr inti a mory. The overall percentage of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) lawyers reported the 2019 NALP Directory of Legal Employers (NDLE) creased slightly to 2. This is also nsistent wh Class of 2018 fdgs that lbian, gay, and bisexual graduat gog to private practice were more likely to take a job a firm of more than 251 lawyers than were graduat takg jobs private practice as a whole.

Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny. Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab". "We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May.

The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law. Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia". "It is one thg to say: 'I don't agree wh you beg gay', but we didn't have the ant one, where policians now are sayg: 'You go to jail for life, you go to jail for talkg about beg gay, you go to jail bee you're livg wh your fellow woman', " Dr Kaoma says.

"It sensis children to sex, " she Slater also quot om the manual, cludg l which say that facilators of lsons should have "a ntral, acceptg attu towards homosexualy". 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.

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.