The Homosexual Advance Defence and the Campaign to Abolish it in Queensland: The Activist’s Dilemma and the Politician’s Paradox
Abstract
Two recent murder trials in Queensland served as reminders that the ‘homosexual advance defence’ is still being employed in courtrooms as a species of provocation, resulting in verdicts of manslaughter instead of murder. The cases sparked a campaign for the abolition of the defence from Queensland law and very nearly succeeded. After setting out what the ‘homosexual advance defence’ is and how efforts to eradicate it have fared elsewhere in Australia, this article seeks to give a full account of the campaign in order to elucidate lessons for future law reform efforts as well as for queer theory.
Published
Oct 19, 2012
How to Cite
BLORE, Kent.
The Homosexual Advance Defence and the Campaign to Abolish it in Queensland: The Activist’s Dilemma and the Politician’s Paradox.
QUT Law Review, [S.l.], v. 12, n. 2, oct. 2012.
ISSN 2201-7275.
Available at: <https://lr.law.qut.edu.au/article/view/489>. Date accessed: 01 feb. 2021.
doi: https://doi.org/10.5204/qutlr.v12i2.489.
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