gay panic

gay panic
 n.β€” Β«That makes The Hitcher, a first feature for both writer (Eric Red) and director (Robert Harmon), a slasher movie about gay panic, a nasty piece of homophobic angst for the age of AIDs.Β» β€”β€œNasty piece of homophobic angst Logic takes a hike in Hitcher” by Jay Scott Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada) Feb. 25, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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