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

Contents:

• 16 DRAMATIC HATE CRIM AGAST GAYS STATISTICS
• ANTI-GAY HATE CRIM FELL SLIGHTLY 2020, WHILE ANTI-TRANS CRIM ROSE, FBI SAYS
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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.

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.

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

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. 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. Part of Pri Month is acknowledgg that while Amerin society has e a long way towards acceptg lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr, and queer folks, there’s still a long way to go and a lot of work for all of to do. Gay men are the most affected type and have been sce UCR data began trackg the crim 1990.

This particular statistic is pecially impactful bee while approximately 4% of the adult populatn intifi as lbian, gay, or bisexual, only 0. Department of Jtice Communy Relatn Service (CRS) works to prevent and rpond to hate crim agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer or qutng (LGBTQ) muni through facilated dialogue, trag, nsultatn, and mediatn. The long history of vlence agast gay men, lbians, bisexuals and the transgenr/genr-nonnformg muny is beg creasgly well-unrstood, but shows no signs of stoppg.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

The percentag listed here clu crim motivated by the prence or perceived prence of a victim who was gay, lbian, bisexual, LGBT, transgenr or genr-nonnformg.

Gay men are more likely than other members of the LGBT muny to be targeted hate-motivated cints, wh more than half of cints motivated by anti-LGBT sentiment targetg gay men. July 1, 2019, marked the 50th anniversary of the endg of the Stonewall Uprisg, seen by many as the spark that igned the morn gay-rights movement the U.

The first gay pri march were nducted the followg summer, and while there’s no doubt that much has changed sce the police pound on the door of the Stonewall Inn New York Cy’s Greenwich Village, for many members of the LGBT muny, vlence and harassment, even the specter of murr, are still a part of their daily liv.