Anti gay hate crime statistics

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

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

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

Researchers analyzed pooled data from the 2022 and 2023 National Crime Victimization Survey, a nationally representative 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 experience violent despise crimes than non-LGBT people (0.7 per 1,000).

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

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

WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) — the nation’s largest womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization — sounded the alarm today as the Federal Bureau of Study (FBI) released its annual crime report for 2022 showing that anti-LGBTQ+ animosity crimes were up sharply from the prior year, with a 13.8% boost 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 go up 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 mention 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

New FBI Data: Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes Continue to Spike, Even as Overall Crime Rate Declines
by Delphine Luneau •
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 dislike crimes are motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ bias
WASHINGTON — The FBI today released its annual report looking back at dislike crimes numbers for the prior calendar year — and for 2023, the hate crime numbers relating to incidents targeting members of the LGBTQ+ group once again display disturbing, record-breaking numbers. Even as abuse in the nation overall is continuing to drop, reports of hate crime incidents targeting people for their sexual orientation or gender identity are rising.
“Every lesbian, gay, bisexual person, transgender and lgbtq+ person in this country should be free to inhabit their lives without fear that we’ll be the aim of a stormy incident purely because of who we are and who we love,” said Kelley Robinson, Human Rights Campaign President. “Unfortunately, the latest FBI hate crimes data shows that even as universal acceptance of Queer people continu

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 trouble 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 Homosexual in this country,” said Brian K. Bond, CEO of LGBTQ advocacy organization PFLAG National. “Our Gay loved ones need both our compassion and our action to make our communities safe and our laws inclusive, so every LGBTQ+ person can be safe, celebrated, affirmed and loved everywhere in the U.S.”
Though violent 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 individuality were the third and fourth most prevalent bias motivation in 2023, behind race/ethnicity and religion.
The FBI counted 2,936 incidents comparable 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 United States
LGBT people experienced a higher rate of earnest 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 serious force resulting in injuries (21.3 vs. 2.4 per 22 LGBT people were also more likely to experience violent loathe crimes (6.4 vs. 0.7 per 1,000).
Conclusion
Consistent with prior findings, our results present that compared with non-LGBT people, LGBT people have been subject to disparities in exposure to violence, including loathe crimes.LGBT victims of violence are also more likely than non-LGBT people to experience attacks that are more vicious and to tolerate injuries because of these attacks. The curtailment and elimination of civil rights protections for LGBT people in the United States puts them at uncertainty for increased victimization and hate crimes.
Methodology
The NCVS uses a stratified, multi-stage cluster sample of households in the Together States that surveys individuals aged 12 years and older.The purpose of the NCVS is to document the prevalence and characteristics of viol