Additionally, 0.5% of all hate crimes were based on perceived gender identity. Sixty-one percent of those attacks were against gay men.
In 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reported that 20.8% of hate crimes reported to police in 2013 was founded on perceived sexual orientation. 3 Violence against LGBT people since 1964.2 Measures to stop violence against LGBT people.The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has also implemented a data collection program and integrated the system under their Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program and National Incident-Based Reporting System(NIBRS).
101-275), in order to develop a systematic approach for documenting and understanding hate crimes against LGBT people in the United States. The United States has passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act (P.L. An intersectional approach would examine how these forms of discrimination combine in unique ways. Victims of violence who are both LGBT and a person of color may have trouble distinguishing whether the violence was based on their sexuality/gender identity or whether racism also played a significant factor. These actions may be caused by cultural, religious, or political mores and biases. Violence targeted at people because of their perceived sexuality can be psychological and physical up to and including murder. Hate crimes against LGBTQIA people often occur because the perpetrators are homophobic or transphobic. Ī hate crime is defined as the victimization of individuals because of their actual or perceived race, ethnicity or national origin, sexual orientation, religion, gender, gender identity or disability. Political protests have been done to try and crackdown on more of these attacks with a greater penalty. Throughout time the number and statistics of these acts of violence have increased greatly due to the belief of religious and political views, or perhaps other factors as well. Attacks against LGBT people revolve around the idea that there is a normal way for people to live, which encompasses all expressions, desires, behaviors, and roles associated with the gender each person was assigned to at birth. Dozens of transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals are murdered every year in the US, and the murder of black transgender women is especially prevalent.
Since the 1969 Stonewall riots against one of the many police raids on gay bars, there have been many more reports and instances of violence against LGBT people in the United States. The violence that has occurred over the existence of the LGBT community has been more extensive considering how long the incidents have occurred. Violence can also occur between couples who are of the same sex, statistics showing that violence among same-sex couples is more common than among than couples of the opposite sex. People who are perceived to be LGBT may also be targeted. Those targeted by such violence are believed to violate heteronormative rules and contravene perceived protocols of gender and sexual roles. The history of violence against LGBT people in the United States is made up of assaults on gay men, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender individuals ( LGBT), legal responses to such violence, and hate crime statistics in the United States of America.
A memorial in May 2013 where Mark Carson, a 32-year-old black gay man, was shot to death by another man who trailed and taunted him and a friend as they walked down the street in New York City's Greenwich Village