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Gay panic is insidious. It appeals to juries, who are allegedly made up of random members of the community. What defense lawyers know is that most people are repulsed by the idea of gay —especially gay male— sex. Those lawyers know that a claim of defense against an alleged gay sexual advance will win points with the jury of peers.

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While it is all too true that there is no single monolithic voice or unified agreement about what it means to be GLBT-identified, this GLBT community has been able to unite behind some basic consensus of what we need to achieve in order to claim the right of full citizenship.

Jeffrey Montgomery

We can not live as disposable people. The broader community, which has firmly established compulsory heterosexuality as the law of the universe, has to get over its problem with us.

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