Bloomberg Law news service reports. Such defenses have been used in court for years, although more rarely recently, in efforts to justify crimes against LGBTQ+ people, the argument being that the revelation of a victim’s identity or a sexual advance from the victim drove the defendant to violence.“You can’t just say that because you discovered or you perceived someone as being LGBTQ, that that in and of itself or coupled with an oral solicitation is reason to murder or assault that person,” Virginia Del.