Anti gay hate crime statistics

Attacks Based on Gender Identity Up 16% from Prior Year, Those Based on Sexual Orientation Up 23%; Once Again, Race and Ethnicity-Based Hate Crimes are the Largest Category

More than 1 in 5 hate crimes are motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ bias

WASHINGTON — The FBI today released its annual report looking back at hate crimes numbers for the prior calendar year — and for 2023, the hate crime statistics relating to incidents targeting members of the Queer community once again demonstrate disturbing, record-breaking numbers. Even as violence in the nation overall is continuing to drop, reports of hate crime incidents targeting people for their sexual orientation or gender individuality are rising.

“Every lesbian, same-sex attracted, bisexual, transgender and lgbtq+ person in this state should be free to live their lives without fear that we’ll be the target of a violent incident purely because of who we are and who we love,” said Kelley Robinson, Human Rights Campaign President. “Unfortunately, the latest FBI abhor crimes data shows that even as public acceptance of LGBTQ+ people continu

FBI’s Annual Crime Notify — Amid State of Emergency, Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes Hit Staggering Record Highs

WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest sapphic, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization — sounded the alarm today as the Federal Bureau of Enquiry (FBI) released its annual crime report for 2022 showing that anti-LGBTQ+ despise crimes were up sharply from the prior year, with a 13.8% expand in reports based on sexual orientation and a shocking 32.9% jump in reported hate crimes based on gender identity

In response to the FBI’s 2022 report, Human Rights Campaign President Kelley Robinson released the following statement:

"The ascend in hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community is both shocking and heartbreaking, yet sadly, not unexpected. The constant stream of hostile rhetoric from fringe anti-equality figures, alongside the relentless passage of discriminatory bills, particularly those targeting transgender individuals, in declare legislatures, created an environment where it was sadly foreseeable that individuals with violent tendencies might respond to this rhetoric. The FBI's data serves as another alar

Hate crimes, particularly against LGBTQ community, on the rise: FBI data

Hate crimes motivated by gender-identity and sexual orientation rose from 2022 to 2023, according to FBI data, sparking concern among LGBTQ advocates about the potential impact of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and legislation.

"Today's abysmal FBI report highlights that it is still dangerous to be LGBTQ+ in this country,” said Brian K. Bond, CEO of LGBTQ lobbying group PFLAG National. “Our LGBTQ+ loved ones need both our compassion and our action to make our communities safe and our laws inclusive, so every LGBTQ+ person can be protected, celebrated, affirmed and loved everywhere in the U.S.”

Though aggressive crime is down about 3% overall from 2022 to 2023, hate crimes are up across the U.S., according to the FBI's statistics.

Sexual orientation and gender identity were the third and fourth most prevalent bias motivation in 2023, behind race/ethnicity and religion.

The FBI counted 2,936 incidents related to sexual-orientation and gender-identity bias in 2023 – up roughly 8.6% from about 2,700 in 2022.

Sexual orientation, excluding heterosexuality, was the motivation for 2,389 incidents in 2023 –

Anti-LGBT Victimization in the Merged States

LGBT people experienced a higher rate of thoughtful violence, defined as rape or sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault, than non-LGBT people (53.7 vs. 8.5 per 1,000),including higher rates of violence involving a weapon (27.4 vs. 5.7 per 1,000)and thoughtful violence resulting in injuries (21.3 vs. 2.4 per 22 LGBT people were also more likely to experience violent hate crimes (6.4 vs. 0.7 per 1,000).

Conclusion

Consistent with prior findings, our results show that compared with non-LGBT people, LGBT people have been subject to disparities in exposure to violence, including hate crimes.LGBT victims of violence are also more likely than non-LGBT people to experience attacks that are more violent and to suffer injuries because of these attacks. The curtailment and elimination of civil rights protections for LGBT people in the United States puts them at risk for increased victimization and hate crimes.

Methodology

The NCVS uses a stratified, multi-stage cluster sample of households in the Joined States that surveys individuals aged 12 years and older.The purpose of the NCVS is to document the prevalence and characteristics of viol

LGBT people five times more likely than non-LGBT people to be victims of violent crime

A novel report by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds LGBT people in the U.S. are five times more likely to experience stormy victimization than non-LGBT people.

LGBT victims of violence are also more likely than non-LGBT people to face serious violence—such as rape, sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated assault—and to suffer injuries because of these attacks.

Researchers analyzed pooled numbers from the 2022 and 2023 National Crime Victimization Survey, a nationally characteristic sample that documents experiences of victimization.

Results show LGBT people experienced 106.4 victimizations per 1,000 people, compared to 21.1 victimizations per 1,000 people for non-LGBT people. Transgender people experienced victimization at a rate of 93.7 per 1,000 people.

In addition, LGBT people (6.4 per 1,000 people) were nine times more likely to trial violent hate crimes than non-LGBT people (0.7 per 1,000).

“The Trump administration’s curtailment of civil rights protections for LGBT people in the United States, and the escalating anti-LGBT, and in particular anti-transgender, action