We timate the prevalence and characteristics of vlent hate crime victimizatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people the Uned Stat, and we pare them to non-LGBT hate crime victims and to LGBT victims of vlent non-hate crime. We analyze pooled 2017-2019 data om the Natnal Crime Victimizatn Survey (n persons = 553, 925;n cints = 32, 470), the first natnally reprentative and prehensive survey on crime that allows intifitn of LGBT persons aged 16 or olr. Dcriptive and bivariate analysis show that LGBT people experienced 6.6 vlent hate crime victimizatns per 1,000 persons pared wh non-LGBT people’s 0.6 per 1,000 persons (odds rat = 8.30, 95% nfince terval = 1.94, 14.65). LGBT people were more likely to be hate crime victims of sexual orientatn or genr bias crime and ls likely to be victims of race or ethnicy bias crim pared to non-LGBT hate crime victims. Compared to non-LGBT victims, LGBT victims of hate crime were more likely to be younger, have a relatnship wh their assailant, and have an assailant who is whe. Compared to LGBT victims of non-hate vlence, more LGBT hate crime victims reported experiencg problems their social liv, negative emotnal rpons, and physil symptoms of distrs. Our fdgs affirm claims that hate crim have adverse physil and psychologil effects on victims and highlight the need to ensure that LGBT persons who experience hate crime get necsary support and servic the aftermath of the crime.
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We timate the prevalence and characteristics of vlent hate crime victimizatn of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people the Uned Stat, and we pare them to non-LGBT hate crime victims and to LGBT victims of vlent non-hate crime. We analyze pooled 2017-2019 data om the Natnal Crime Victimizatn Survey (n persons = 553, 925;n cints = 32, * lgbt hate crimes *
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. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by bill banned classroom stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty krgarten through third gra.
LGBT Foundatn is a natnal chary liverg advice, support and rmatn servic to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) muni. * lgbt hate crimes *
Friday marked 50 years sce protters fought back agast a police raid of New York's Stonewall Inn and talyzed the morn gay rights movement. Of those crim, a majory targeted gay motivated by a bias toward genr inty – agast transgenr and non-bary dividuals – have generally risen sce 2013, when the FBI first began rerdg them. At an annual Natnal Prayer Breakfast this past Febary, Tmp fend a state-fund Michigan adoptn agency’s efforts to ban gay and lbian upl om adoptg children.
”Unr the Obama admistratn, the average number of anti-gay hate crime cints reported to the FBI each year was higher than the number of cints reported 2017.