Did you know that if you are gay/trans and are killed by a straight male,
he may get off from seeing any jail time because of something called the “gay panic defense”?

shocking,
right?
bet some of you didn’t know this as i didn’t.
i learned about it while watching the last episode of “last call: when a serial killer stalked queer new york” on max.
during the hyena’s first murder in college,
where he killed a gay male and dumped him in the ocean,
they used that defense that allowed him his freedom.
if they would have hauled his ass to prison in 1973,
he wouldn’t have gone on years later to brutally murder other gays.
big yikes,
right?
let’s look deeper at the law via wiki…

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