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ANTI-GAY HATE CRIM FELL SLIGHTLY 2020, WHILE ANTI-TRANS CRIM ROSE, FBI SAYS
The FBI rerd 440 hate crim agast lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr people as a mixed group 2020, a 16% uptick om 378 the year prr. The celebratory air of Pri Month is clashg wh the creasg threats of anti-LGBTQ vlence across the Kalama High School Washgton state on June 6, a 16-year-old stunt was arrted for asslt and charged wh a hate crime after allegedly attackg two transgenr stunts and g a homophobic queens Slene Onixxx and Athena Kills read to people gathered for Drag Queen Story Hour at Cellar Door Books Riversi, Calif., on June 22, 2019.
Members and supporters of the LGBTQ muny attend the "Say Gay Anyway" rally Miami Beach, Fla., March 13, 2022. Advot say the rtrictns on LGBTQ rights may be embolng extremists who are beg told to believe that LGBTQ people are falsely related to pedophilia and child Cooper, director of muny engagement for HRC Foundatn’s Transgenr Jtice Iniative says the homophobic and transphobic people may “feel empowered a way that perhaps they haven't s” due to the actns of policians. 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.
Further wt, a crew of Proud Boys terpted a drag queen event California, timidatg parents and children and screamg transphobic and homophobic sults. It was a ncentratn of anti-LGBTQ+ hate Ameri that me as a shock to some – but not to the advot and groups who have been warng of an alarmg rise anti-trans and gay speech over the past year, pecially om the far ’s an crease, they warn, that has been spurred by Republin policians and rightwg media, who have phed anti-LGBTQ+ talkg pots and legislatn that has seen the rights and safety of an already margalized group threatened. Photograph: Georji Brown/APIn March DeSantis, nsired a ontnner for the Republin party’s printial nomatn 2024, signed a ntroversial “don’t say gay” bill that prevents teachers om discsg sexual orientatn or genr inty public schools.