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

Contents:

• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'
• ANTI-GAY VLENCE: CS, CONSEQUENC, AND RPONS (FROM BIAS CRIME: THE LAW ENFORCEMENT RPONSE, P 113-125, 1991, NANCY TAYLOR, ED. -- SEE NCJ-136058)
• ANTI-GAY HATE CRIM FELL SLIGHTLY 2020, WHILE ANTI-TRANS CRIM ROSE, FBI SAYS

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

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Lhuanian Gay League (LGL). What we do know that is that rerd homophobic and transphobic hate crim have jumped every year sce 2015, and yet wh an timated four five still gog unreported, the already grisly figur only ht at a far bleaker cints vary nature and severy: om abe hurled at someone intified as LGBTQ bee of their appearance, or mannerisms, or a fleetg or profound show of affectn towards a partner; to gay men beg beaten and robbed, as happened a spected homophobic attack on the streets of Edburgh last month, or a trans man savagely attacked Bournemouth earlier this year.

LGBT HATE CRIM DOUBLE RSIA AFTER BAN ON 'GAY PROPAGANDA'

A whe, middle-class, gay, cis man – that is, someone generally at one wh their genr assigned at birth – an urban area is likely to suffer far ls meangful opprsn than other groups. Beyond the fear of holdg hands wh their partner public, their ma grievanc tend to centre on the psychologil srs left by the often suffotgly homophobic environment of their school n lead to lastg trma, which largely explas the higher rat of mental distrs and abive relatnships wh alhol and dgs among LGBTQ people.

ANTI-GAY VLENCE: CS, CONSEQUENC, AND RPONS (FROM BIAS CRIME: THE LAW ENFORCEMENT RPONSE, P 113-125, 1991, NANCY TAYLOR, ED. -- SEE NCJ-136058)

The most damaged are equently those whose fathers and mothers vlated the most sacred prciple of parenthood – unndnal love – ference to their own bigotry, often implantg a tickg time bomb their children that may tonate later life, be the form of emotnal breakdown or dg a young gay black man, homophobia may lli wh creased risk of police harassment and racist behavur om other LGBTQ people: victims n be perpetrators, too, sometim believg their own mistreatment mak impossible to opprs as Shon Faye’s brilliant new book The Transgenr Issue unrl, is trans people – the T the LGBTQ – now sufferg the most severe onslght.

Today’s relentls mpaign agast trans people seems a near-rbon py of the prevly wispread monsterg of gay and bisexual people, wh all the same trop repeated: that they are would-be sexual predators, that they seek to brawash and rec children, that blogy is sty, that this is a whimsil liftyle choice, that they are fed by mental illns or a creepy fetish that impos an tolerable burn on the “normal” the 1980s and 1990s, many supposed liberals participated the anti-gay offensive, lamentg that the se for gay rights was beg unrmed by “ant homosexuals” makg unreasonable mands on the rt of society, such as askg newspapers not to ll them “poofters”.

Only last week, police nfirmed the inty of Ranjh Kankanamalage, a 50-year-old murred a spected homophobic attack east London on Augt 16.

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

Supporters of the LGB Alliance – many of whom are straight – promptly took to Twter to nounce this cint as homophobia and even gay-bashg by the queer protters – some of whom will evably have suffered actual hate crim. The man beme somethg of a e célèbre, an cint that has been marshalled to support the creasgly mon claim that the trans rights movement is homophobic; a “woke homophobia” as a GB News prenter put , renrg LGBTQ people the real homophobic as reported hate crim surge, Stonewall – by far the largt LGBTQ civil rights anisatn – fds self targeted by a McCarthye mpaign agast s fence of trans rights. The biggt killer of men unr 45 is suici: eeg them om rigid genr norms, which teach them to believe that openg up about their problems is unmanly or “gay”, will make them more likely to seek support.

More than half a century sce the partial crimalisatn of homosexualy, LGBTQ people still fear the repercsns of simply beg themselv. In 2021, there were 250 victims of anti-homosexualy hate crim of simple asslt the Uned Stat, the most mon form of anti-homosexualy hate crim that year.

Number of victims of hate crim agast gay or lbian people the Uned Stat 2021, by crime type. Figur are a sum of crim agast people who intify as gay (male) or lbian.