In 2021, there were 617 victims of anti-gay hate crim the Uned Stat, makg gay men the group wh the most victims attacked for their genr or sexual orientatn that year.
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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, 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. * lgbt hate crimes statistics 2017 *
AbstractWe 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. While cln of SOGI to hate crime laws was origally nceptualized as a victory for the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) muny and a regnn of their heightened risk for prejudice-motivated nduct [2, 3], more recent scholars have begun to qutn whether hate crime laws, particularly the e of sentence enhancements, offer protectn for LGBT victims or create another means of policg vulnerable muni [4]. Other studi suggted that gay and bisexual men bear a disproportnate burn of hate crime [6, 7], pecially hate crim “agast persons, ” meang those that target people (such as asslt or robberi) as opposed to crim agast property (such as arson or burglary) [8].
Some studi suggted that gay men and transgenr women, particularly black, digeno, people of lor, were more likely to be murred, although timat of homici risk vary greatly pendg on the sample ed [9–11]. Known others are more likely than strangers to know someone’s sexual orientatn or genr inty, th creasg the risk of homophobic or transphobic vlence by known others.
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 th … * lgbt hate crimes statistics 2017 *
[13] scribe, where gay and lbian people who attribute negative experienc to sexual prejudice are more psychologilly distrsed than those who do not make such attributns. Followg Florida’s passage of Parental Rights Edutn or a “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” law, there was a 406% crease anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on social media tied to “groomer” language [47].
For example, scholars crique the jtifitn for hate crime laws that have excs foc on the “stranger danger” argument that was ed as part of the “tough on crime” approach or e exampl of middle class gay whe men as victims when hate crime victims are more diverse [52].