| 单词 | gay panic defence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgay panic defence gay panic n. anxiety or panic as a reaction to (one's own or more usually another's) homosexuality, esp. that supposedly provoked in a heterosexual man by another man's homosexual advances, and sometimes claimed as the cause of violent conduct (frequently in North American legal contexts, esp. attributive in gay panic defence); cf. homosexual panic n. ΚΠ 1983 Gay Scene (N.Y.) Sept. 10/2 Jury rejects ‘gay panic’ defence. 1994 Washington Post 23 Dec. a3 A Washington attorney with Gay and Lesbian Americans, says he has heard the ‘gay panic defense’ before and brands it ‘nonsense’. 1999 Independent on Sunday 7 Nov. 5/2 In an ongoing murder trial, lawyers attempted to use ‘gay panic’ as a defence, stating that the defendant was provoked to violence by homosexual advances. 2001 N.Y. Times 24 June i. 15/5 They say he has a history of supporting anti-gay legislation, including a ‘gay panic’ measure that would have permitted someone accused of attacking a gay person to argue that the victim provoked the attack with ‘lewd and lascivious’ behavior. < as lemmas |
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