Dead by Daylight streamer, Filthy Killer main. MtG and Brunch Enthusiast. Famously gay 🌈🏳️🌈 Writer for @MTGatTCGplayer He/Him
Jun 24, 2018 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
For no particular reason, this is your reminder that:
-after the AIDS crisis, public opinion didn't start turning around until the brutal death of Matthew Shepard got national media attention.
-The gay panic defense is only disallowed in two states (CA, IL).
-Trans panic has similarly been used as a defense as recently as 2015.
-Sodomy laws were only made unconstitutional in 2003, in Texas v Lawrence. They were explicitly upheld by SCOTUS in the middle of the AIDS crisis only 17 years earlier in Bowers v Hardwick
