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NEW HAMPSHIRE MOV TO OUTLAW ‘GAY PANIC’ FENSE
* gay panic *
On January 21, New Jersey beme the nth state the natn to ban the gay panic fense, a strategy that the ernor said is “rooted homophobia.
Carsten Andren, a crimal jtice scholar, has been buildg a database of murr s that e the gay panic fense. What is the gay panic fense?
THE GAY/TRANS PANIC DEFENSE
The offenr the gay panic fense as an exce or jtifitn to try to eva punishment for the crime of murr. In this stance, the gay panic fense was succsful.
Two events put me on a path to rearchg the gay panic fense. At the nference, my ey opened to the obstacl that the LGBTQ+ muny fac a state like Texas, where there is history of homophobia that ntu to the prent day. A few days after his ath, I learned for the first time that he was gay, and realized that he had lived an almost pletely closeted life.