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Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice

Out for Queer Blood: The Murder of Fernando Rios and the Failure of New Orleans Justice

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGLBTQIA StudiesTrue Crime

ISBN10: 1476668841
ISBN13: 9781476668840
Publisher: Exposit Books
Published: Nov 1 2017
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

On a September night in 1958, three New Orleans college students went looking for a gay man to assault. They chose Fernando Rios, who died from the beating he received. In perhaps the earliest example of the gay panic defense, the three defendants argued that they had no choice but to beat Rios because he had made an improper advance. When the jury acquitted the three, the courtroom cheered. The author offers a detailed examination of the murder and the trial.

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