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- Title
Death and Discourse: The History of Arguing Against the Homosexual Panic Defense.
- Authors
Helmers, Matthew T.
- Abstract
Beginning in the 1960s, American males began to plead the “Homosexual Panic Defense” (HPD) when charged with the murder of a homosexual male. Over the next 50 years, legal and literary academics decried the use of the HPD affirming that it relied on prejudicial stereotypes of “bad” homosexuals as sexual predators. This article revisits these critical debates and shows how these legal critics attempt to gentrify the “homosexual” into a good subject in order to justify his right-to-life. I argue that sexuality should never be considered a justification for murder, regardless of the particular homosexual’s status as good or bad.
- Subjects
GAY men; CRIMES against gay people; CRIMINAL defense; PLEADING; HUMAN sexuality; MURDER -- Law &; legislation
- Publication
Law, Culture & the Humanities, 2017, Vol 13, Issue 2, p285
- ISSN
1743-8721
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1743872113479885