Talk:Gay panic defense

James Miller Gay Panic Defense?

I was looking into these cases, and I can't find any direct evidence of James Miller using the Gay Panic Defense- according to his attorney, the claim was that the victim attacked him with a bottle, and James stabbed him in self defense. Unless someone can find a reliable source, I believe James Miller should be removed from the list, or amended to indicate that, despite popular belief, James Miller did not engage in the gay panic defense, though he may have successfully used his victim's alleged homosexuality in order to other his victim.

66.102.84.93 (talk) 20:13, 11 June 2020 (UTC)

I think this is a case of WP:NOTTRUTH. Perhaps it can be edited a bit in a manner similar to the Joseph Biedermann entry pointing out that he's been accused of using the gay panic defense without us making any judgement as to the accuracy of that claim.OrdinaryDecent (talk) 20:53, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Colorado Addition

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/07/13/colorado-gay-panic-defense-ban/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=fb-denverpost&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR3_fQtpaQ8fb67niVSu1m3HoIEgnbcHaSzAmL8QFp94S1dH1QExAC_hn6s

The state of CO has passed this legislation. I have no idea how to update a wikipedia article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Perezti (talk • contribs) 03:03, 14 July 2020 (UTC)

History section

I added the new #History section. There is a ton more information about this out there (including in refs already used, as well as many others). It wasn't my intention to leave it as brief as it is, and in fact the subsection #Temporary insanity defense is only a sentence long, not normally enough material to have its own header. I was planning on expanding this considerably, but have been called away for other things, so may not be available to expand this just now. I'm hoping other editors will take this up and make a decent section out of this; if not, I hope to be back at some point in the future to attend to it. The History section is well worth expanding. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:02, 23 December 2020 (UTC)