Editorial: The Ambach trial and 'gay panic' defence

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Editorial: The Ambach trial and 'gay panic' defence
Gaynz.com
By Jay Bennie
9th July 2009


http://www.gaynz.com/articles/publish/5/article_7664.php


We have reported in detail the progress of police investigations, descriptions of the crime scene, and filed reports, so many reports, from the court, starting with Ferdinand Ambach's first appearance to hear the charges laid until the jury's manslaughter verdict just minutes ago. Why?

Further back than any glbt person alive can remember gays and transgenders, and occasionally lesbians, have been singled out for extreme violence and, too often, death at the hands of those who take exception to us. In recording for posterity, and presenting to present day readers, the details of Ronald Brown's death and his killer's appointment with justice we hoped to somehow honour Brown and all those whose lives were taken or wrecked in past times because they were gay, like you.