Anti-gay hate crim on the rise, FBI says, and they likely unrunt

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• 16 DRAMATIC HATE CRIM AGAST GAYS STATISTICS
• HATE CRIM AGAST GAY MAL: AN OVERVIEW

16 DRAMATIC HATE CRIM AGAST GAYS STATISTICS

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.

HATE CRIM AGAST GAY MAL: AN OVERVIEW

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. PHOENIX (AP) — The first study of s kd found that people who are gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, queer or genr non-nfirmg are nearly four tim as likely to be victims of vlent crime than those outsi such muni. Supreme Court as hears arguments a major LGBT rights se on whether a feral anti-discrimatn law that prohibs workplace discrimatn on the basis of sex vers gay and transgenr employe Washgton, U.

Syed Ghulam Sarwar Shah, EdorAbstractWe 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] unrstand the rat of hate crime among vulnerable muny members and the harms that are associated wh them, is necsary to have systematic documentatn and transparent reportg of the crim. 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.

[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 addn, the fdgs suggt ls than half of LGBT victims of vlent hate crime sought out help om medil or mental health provirs for those psychologil or physil symptoms. 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].

The prevalence of sexual asslt agast people who intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual the Uned Stat: a systematic review. Psychologil distrs, crime featur, and help-seekg behaivors related to homophobic bias cints. Hate crime victimizatn among lbian, gay, and bisexual adults.