Washington’s Closet Has Always Been Political Hunter Biden wandered into one of Washington’s oldest forbidden conversations this week, and Don Lemon did not exactly rush to change the subject. During a July 22 appearance on The Don Lemon Show, Lemon asked Biden, “Why are Republicans obsessed with gay people, men, especially?” Biden offered a theory rarely stated so plainly in political conversation. “You know why? And this is a serious statement,” Biden replied, before claimi

The Gay Panic Defense Is Still on the Table In 30 states and five U.S. territories, a defendant retains the legal right to argue in court that his victim's sexual orientation provoked him into violence. The strategy is called the gay panic defense, and attorneys across most of the country are free to deploy it. Aaron McKinney raised it in 1998, after he and Russell Henderson beat a 21-year-old University of Wyoming student named Matthew Shepard into a coma, tied him to a fenc