Australia’s Queensland State Abolish Gay Panic’ Defense

By |2017-03-24T01:13:49-07:00March 24th, 2017|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

By: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer Queensland lawmakers passed legislation that eliminated a controversial "gay panic" defense from the justice system's criminal code. The code previously allowed defendants to use the lame defense measure to as an excuse for why they committed murder of an unwanted sexual advance by a Gay man.  Needless to say, Queensland [...]