Gallup timat that 7.2% of the U.S. adult populatn is lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.
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Crimologil and cultural disurs ncerng LGBT persons as crimals are traced om the 1880s through the 1980s, when “gay crimal” gave way to the “gay victim.” The ntemporary absence of LGBT persons om crimology, except as... * lgbt offender *
Today the mol of the gay crimal, forced by an trsilly crimogenic same-sex sire to m atroci, has been disunted as irratnal and bigoted, a relic of the homophobic past.
However, the mol of the gay victim, forced by an trsilly victimizg same-sex sire to endure hate crim, asslts, and sundry jtic, requirg the paternal terventn of heterosexual big brothers, is still alive and well, and rms much of ntemporary scholarship and popular disurse. This chapter will trace the history of the gay crimal and the gay victim, and suggt a third mol, of LGBT persons as potential cizens and potential First Gay CrimalsPrr to the neteenth century, there were few gay crimals, bee, as many scholars have argued, there was ltle ncept of a separate LGBT inty.