Anti-gay hate crim on the rise, FBI says, and they likely unrunt

Contents:

• HATE CRIM AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN. ISSU FOR REARCH AND POLICY
• ANTI-GAY HATE CRIM FELL SLIGHTLY 2020, WHILE ANTI-TRANS CRIM ROSE, FBI SAYS
• QUEER TE CRIME STORI OF THE PAST SHOW HOW THE PRS STOKED FEAR OF GAY MEN

HATE CRIM AGAST LBIANS AND GAY MEN. ISSU FOR REARCH AND POLICY

Acrdg to the FBI data, of the nearly 1, 200 cints targetg people due to their sexual orientatn, the majory targeted gay men (roughly 60 percent), while approximately 12 percent targeted lbians, 1. 4 percent of all reported hate crime cints last pared to 2017, the number of reported cints targetg the LGBTQ muny creased om 1, 217 to 1, 347, jumpg om roughly 17 percent to 19 percent of each year's total number of reported hate crime particular, reports of anti-trans vlence is growg: Between 2017 and 2018, the number of the reported cints creased 34 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny is timated by Gallup to prise 4.

Five gay, male iends, some of whom were wearg makp and jewelry, were exg a well-known gay bar when they were approached by a group of men who were unknown to them.

In 1998, a gay llege stunt named Matthew Shepard was beaten and murred Laramie, sparkg hate crime legislatn many stat and even at the feral level. In 2021, a Montana man was tried and nvicted for firg an asslt rifle to a lbian woman's home a self-scribed attempt to "rid the town of Bas of s gay and lbian muny. An attack on a gay man Oklahoma Cy 2020 sparked bate about appropriate nsequenc and punishment for hate crim.

ANTI-GAY HATE CRIM FELL SLIGHTLY 2020, WHILE ANTI-TRANS CRIM ROSE, FBI SAYS

In 2021, three dividuals were asslted durg a Pri event by an attacker g homophobic slurs; other vlent cints clud threats and theft of Pri flags. A group Lexgton prented a petn to the County Council March 2023 suggtg new ways to protect the gay muny om the impact of statewi legislatn. In Colorado Sprgs, a shooter entered a gay nightclub and opened fire, killg five people and woundg 17 more.

Even before the shootg rampage at a gay nightclub Orlando, Fla., lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people were already the most likely targets of hate crim Ameri, acrdg to an analysis of data llected by the Feral Bure of Invtigatn. Senator Mch McConnell of Kentucky, the majory lear, has omted any mentn of gays when talkg about the massacre, and Reprentative Pete Ssns of Texas has said the se of the shootg was not a gay club. And the nightclub, Pulse, on s Twter acunt, billed self as “Orlando’s premier gay ultra lounge, nightclub and bar.

QUEER TE CRIME STORI OF THE PAST SHOW HOW THE PRS STOKED FEAR OF GAY MEN

People might have to do wh a more acceptg attu toward gays and lbians recent s, say people who study hate crim. Last summer, ls than two months after the Uned Stat Supreme Court led favor of same-sex marriage, a New York Cy man was arrted and charged wh a hate crime for attackg Larry and Daniel Lennox-Choate, the first gay uple to be married at Wt Pot Milary Amy. In March of this year, Ellt Moral was nvicted of murr as a hate crime for killg Mark Carson, a gay black man, Manhattan three years earlier.

Keh Gaillard, the man charged her murr, was also acced of killg a man believed to be gay ls than a week later. Ileana Garcia's (FL-R) office after the passage of the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ+ activists on March 9, 2022, Miami.

While the cint is not beg vtigated as a hate crime, the arson is the latt a seri of attacks on the LGTBQ+ muny the wake of homophobic and transphobic legislatn beg passed Texas, Florida, and other stat across the untry. The digal billboards on display five Florida ci nounce the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which bans stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty om krgarten through third gra—a targeted attack on the LGBTQ+ muny. Sce Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill” passed March, a dozen other nservative stat have exprsed a sire to pass intil legislatn.