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

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.

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.

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

”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. In 2008, the FBI reported 1, 297 anti-gay hate crime. ” Triple homici targetg LGBTQ:2 gay men, 1 transgenr woman murredAttacks leave black trans women 'nstantly feelg on edge'This past Pri Month wnsed a slew of vlent anti-LGBTQ hate crim.

“He lnched a global mpaign to crimalize homosexualy. The church, acrdg to s webse, believ “homosexualy is a s and an abomatn which God punish wh the ath penalty. Among those exampl are a parison of same-sex marriage to a marriage between “a man and his horse”; llg the “It Gets Better” project, an iative signed to help LGBTQ young people pe wh bullyg and margalizatn, “disgtg” and a “ncerted effort” to rec kids to the gay “liftyle”; and claimg that the “blood” of “young Mar” would be on the hands of lawmakers who voted to repeal the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” Fay Rearch Council did not rpond to a requt for ment.

Another “anti-LGBTQ hate group” named the report is the Alliance Defendg Freedom, a nservative Christian legal group wh attorneys across the untry and a long track rerd of ligatg agast LGBTQ a lawsu that ma natnal headl last year, ADF reprented Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to make a ke for a gay weddg, a narrow victory at the Supreme Court. ”Wtboro Baptist Church, known for s public protts that nsistently feature signs wh homophobic msag like “God Hat Fags, ” also appears on the SPLC’s list.