Gay Panic - I'm Gay

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Carsten Andreezen says juries in different parts of the country have different attitudes. In Texas, it's evolved to such a sense that if somebody were to say, I'm gay, I think that would be seen as a combative action. Days before he was murdered, Larry asked his killer to be his Valentine. This is personal to me. A boy has been killed and a number of lives have been ruined.

In 1995, two men filmed an episode of the daytime talk show, The Jenny Jones Show. A few days later, one of the men was dead. The shooter later claimed he’d committed the murder “in a panic that he was being falsely accused or identified as a gay person.”

We speak with Cynthia Lee, Carsten Andresen, and Paul Howard about so-called “gay panic” and “trans panic” defenses, and we discuss the murders of Scott Amedure, Islan Nettles, Larry King, Ahmed Dabarran, and Matthew Shepard.

Thanks to Thomas Curry, who helped co-produce this episode.

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