Jesse Watters calls LGBTQ+ people 'nuts' for buying guns ahead of Trump's second term
The Fox News host has championed purchasing firearms for self defense, but he thinks LGBTQ+ people who do it are "nuts."
January 8, 2025
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New Hampshire Outlaws 'LGBTQ+ Panic' Defense in Homicide Cases
Gov. Chris Sununu signed the bill to this effect last week.
August 15, 2023
Trans Woman Accused of Murder; She Says It Was Self-Defense
Gaby Vidana Pereyra will be in court Wednesday in the death of Victor Suarez. She says she shot Suarez in self-defense.
October 18, 2022
Trans Teen Arrested in Texas After Fight; Was It Self-Defense?
The student, arrested after a fight with two others, said she had been the target of online bullying.
October 26, 2018
Christine Quinn: NYC to Offer Free Self-Defense Classes
The announcement from the out council speaker and mayoral candidate comes after dozens of antigay attacks in the city this year.
June 2, 2013
Transgender San Francisco Sex Worker Claims Self-Defense in Killing
Leniyah Butler allegedly confessed to killing the man who refused to pay after she revealed her gender identity – prosecutors say she just didn't want to walk home in the cold.
December 13, 2023
NYC Hate-Crime Suspect Claims He's Bisexual
Elliot Morales claimed in court that he is bisexual because he slept with a trans woman in the past, and that he killed unarmed gay man Mark Carson in 2013 in self-defense.
March 3, 2016
'Drag Race' Alum Widow Von'Du Arrested on Domestic Violence Charges
Von'Du says the incident was a matter of self-defense.
June 3, 2021
Black Trans Man Banko Brown Killed by Security Guard in San Francisco
The guard will not be charged with a crime, as prosecutors say there is evidence he acted in self-defense.
May 3, 2023
Kidd Creole Convicted of Stabbing Death of Homeless Man in 'Gay Panic'
The rapper claimed self-defense, but prosecutors said he killed in a fit of homophobic rage.
April 8, 2022
Why This Texas Man Got Probation for Murdering Gay Neighbor
No one disputes that the killer stabbed a gay man twice in the back. But, they say, it was self-defense.
April 29, 2018
Alleged homophobe not charged after killing gay man in a Florida dog park
The shooter claimed self-defense, but the victim and his friends reported months of antigay threats and abuse.
February 12, 2024
Judge denies 'Stand Your Ground' claim from Florida man accused of homophobic murder
Gerald Declan Radford claimed self-defense after the death of gay man John Walter Lay in a Tampa dog park.
December 16, 2024
Anti-Trans 'Clueless' Star Stacey Dash Arrested for Domestic Violence
Dash's manager says she was acting in self-defense in a dispute with her husband, Jeffrey Marty, when she was arrested.
September 30, 2019
In Defense of Amy Schumer's 'I Feel Pretty'
The comedian's new film has been slammed by critics as sexist and regressive. Here are the best defenses for the self-esteem comedy.
April 24, 2018
Elliot Morales Guilty in Hate-Crime Murder of Mark Carson
The jury was apparently unmoved by Morales’s claims that he shot an unarmed gay man in the face in 2013 as an act of ‘self-defense.’
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March 9, 2016
Jury acquits Maryland man who shot and killed transgender woman Meghan Riley Lewis
Brian Delen said he shot Lewis in self-defense, but he still faces 30 years in prison for her death.
November 9, 2024
Man Found Guilty of Assaulting N.Y. Gay Couple With Chair
Bayna Lekhiem El-Amin brutally assaulted two men last year but claimed self-defense. A jury didn't buy it.
May 26, 2016
This Black Trans Man Is in Prison for Killing His Rapist
Ky Peterson, a black trans man from Georgia, has been imprisoned three years for the 'involuntary manslaughter' of his attacker, which he says was in self-defense.
April 8, 2015
No, More Guns Won't Make LGBT Spaces Safer
Advising LGBT people to take up arms in self defense actually puts the most vulnerable among our community at greater risk, says this queer researcher and media analyst.
July 1, 2016
Here's What to Do When You're Targeted by a Bigot
New York's Center for Anti-Violence Education, which is hosting a free self-defense class for LGBT adults Saturday, offers advice on how to stay safe in the face of a dangerous homophobe or anti-trans maniac.
December 9, 2015