Gay Panic Defense

The Gay Panic Defense And Trayvon Martin

Gabe Zichermann | Posted 04.10.2012

Gabe Zichermann

The shooting of Trayvon Martin is a national tragedy that has left many Americans surprised and dismayed. For students of gay rights in the United States, the emerging facts of the case, and particularly how police appear to have handled it, are eerily familiar.

Jurors Resume Deliberations In Gay Teen Shooting

AP | Posted 10.29.2011

LOS ANGELES — Jurors spent about two hours deliberating but have not reached a verdict in the trial of a California teen accused of murdering a ...

Chilling Closing Arguments In Gay Teen Shooting Case

AP | THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 10.26.2011

LOS ANGELES — About all that prosecutors and defense attorneys agree on in the slaying of 15-year-old Larry King is this: His death was a traged...

Teen's White Supremacist Views Led To Murder Of Gay Student

AP | Posted 09.21.2011

LOS ANGELES — A prosecution expert says a California teenager's white supremacist ideology is the primary reason the murder defendant shot to de...

"Gay Panic Defense" Used To Acquit Illinois Man Who Stabbed Neighbor 61 Times

Michael Rowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Rowe

Only two people know what really happened in that apartment on Hassell Road in Hoffman Estates in the early hours of March 5th 2008. One of the men is dead.

Newsweek's Hate Crime

Sara Whitman | Posted 05.25.2011

Sara Whitman

The article "Young, Gay and Murdered" in Newsweek is one of the poorest examples of journalism I've ever read. To take a kid who is dead and report on how he "asked for it?" That is a hate crime.