gay panic
noun
Anxiety or panic as a reaction to (one's own or more usually another's) homosexuality, especially that supposedly provoked in a heterosexual man by another man's homosexual advances, and sometimes claimed as the cause of violent conduct (frequently in North American legal contexts, especially attributive in gay panic defence).
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in The Times.
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