Home › Entities › general › gay panic defense

gay panic defense

legal defense claiming that defendant acted in a state of violent temporary insanity because of homosexual panic
Thing general Q3707361
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

gay panic defense

Summary

gay panic defense ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,226 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • gay panic defense is a type of insanity defense[2].
  • gay panic defense's uses is recorded as homosexual panic[3].

Body

Definition and Type

gay panic defense is a type of insanity defense[2].

Why It Matters

gay panic defense ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,226 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[4] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[5]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). gay panic defense. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/gay-panic-defense
MLA “gay panic defense.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/gay-panic-defense.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_gay-panic-defense_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{gay panic defense}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/gay-panic-defense}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): gay panic defense — https://4ort.xyz/entity/gay-panic-defense (retrieved 2026-04-10)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/gay-panic-defense · Last refreshed:

Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · WikiHelper232 · 2026-06-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uses → homosexual panic
    Instance of → Q1716206
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → insanity defense
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q1716206]], Copying from [[Q111199668]]"
Live feed via Wikidata EventStreams. New edits appear within minutes of being made on Wikidata.