Help needed defining Gay Panic

you know, i totally forgot about that definition and it wasn't even on my mind that this was reclaiming. "Gay panic" is for when a hot person who you're gay for flirts with you and you get all shy about it. I guess it doesn't really feel reclaimed, just like another use of the word "panic"

As a member of the gay community who isn’t a child, I very much hope the gay community doesn’t start using “gay panic” in any way.

I'm a bit confused by the premise here. How would "panic" of any sort be reclaimed?

I think there are great examples of panics like the satanic panic that demonstrate how ridiculous and wrong, but I don't understand what's being reclaimed here or what you're trying to cite?

but rather needs this snippet to "prove" that the Webis Trigger Warning Corpus 2022 is at least partially flawed.

What is the flaw you're hoping to prove? The only mention of gay panic in that document is listing it as an example of homophobia, which is accurate.

Also, have you checked the references section on the Wikipedia article you linked? Seems like a good place to start.

After reading through the replies I had to go read the urban dictionary pages (particularly the "gay panic defense" one) and hoooooly.

Can't decide. Curious y'all's thoughts. Are there some things that are just too far gone to ever be reclaimed? Or can anything be taken back given enough time? Like, I would argue that the swastika is probably just gone for good. What's the metric or litmus test here? For me, "bad b-" coneys a mental image that nothing else does and I love to see women reclaiming that word in such a cool way (not that I'd use it, since I'm masc. And who's using it plays a part, right?) But I also know people who feel offended by any form of its use by anybody.

I'm sure that there's no way to distill it down into the equation that my brain is looking for. But right and wrong being judged mostly by vibes feels kinda fucked up to me. Particularly given some flavors neurodivergence for whom vibes and feels aren't free.

edit: whoops. Sorry OP. Didn't mean to completely side-trail your topic. Appreciate the post though. Interesting discussion

i'm not entirely sure what you're going for here. i can tell you that there was a so called purple scare around 1950 in an attempt to remove any unwanted politician from office in the US. this was largely paired with the "red scare" (notice the similarity in color between red and purple) to remove communists from office. i suspect that the purple scare was often used as a pretense, because they couldn't find enough evidence of suspected communist activity.

and the "gay panic" largely developed from that.

The feeling I get when my domme hits me with an "mmmmhmmmm?"

First of all, it's the behaviour of a same-sex crush.

Second of all, I'm not sure this is the best point to argue. I'm straight, so take what I say with as much salt as you like, but I checked what gay people are saying and the "reclaimed" usage is pretty controversial. Some say it's minimising the harm gay people have suffered in living history. Others say it's fetishising gay romance by focusing on cutesy crushes. Also, most states still have the gay panic defence in law, so it's not just a past evil.