Twenty-one years ago, on October 12, 1998, openly gay, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard died in Poudre Valley Hospital in Wyoming. Five days earlier, on October 6th, Shepard had been kidnapped, robbed, pistol-whipped, and left tied ...
Connecticut’s State Senate overwhelmingly endorsed a measure Thursday to ban the so-called gay panic defense, reports The CT Post. The LGBT Bar, the largest LGBTQ+ and Ally Legal Community, explains that gay and trans “panic” ...