Homicide rates of lgbtq members
In 2023, a total of 257 violent deaths were reported among LGBTQIA+ individuals in Brazil. This means that, on average, an LGBTQIA+ person lost their life to violence every 34 hours. This turns Brazil into the most homotransphobic country in the world. These statistics were released by the Bahia Gay Group (GGB), the oldest LGBT non-governmental corporation in Latin America.
For 44 years, the GGB has collected data on homicides and suicides within the LGBTQIA+ community through various sources, including news reports, online surveys, and knowledge obtained from the victims' families.
However, the actual number of deaths could be even higher. According to the NGO, there are still 20 deaths under investigation, which could take the total to 277 cases. "The government continues to ignore this veritable holocaust, with an LGBTQIA+ person being violently killed every 34 hours," remarked anthropologist Luiz Mott, founder of the Bahia Lgbtq+ Group.
Out of the recorded deaths, 127 were of transvestites and transgender individuals, while 118 were same-sex attracted, nine were identified as lesbian, and three as bisexual. "For the second time in four decades, the absolute number of [deaths of] transv
LGBT people five times more likely than non-LGBT people to be victims of violent crime
A modern report by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law finds LGBT people in the U.S. are five times more likely to experience forceful 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 facts from the 2022 and 2023 National Crime Victimization Survey, a nationally model 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
Fatal Violence Against the Transgender and Gender-Expansive Group in 2021
Sadly, 2021 has already seen at least 60 transgender or gender-expansive people fatally shot or killed by other violent means. We state at least because too often these stories travel unreported — or misreported. In previous years, the majority of these people were Black and Latine transgender women.
In 2020, HRC tracked a register number of violent fatal incidents against transgender and gender-expansive people. A total of 44 fatalities were tracked by HRC, marking 2020 as the most violent year on document since HRC began following these crimes in 2013--until 2021.
These victims, like all of us, are loving partners, parents, family members, friends and community members. They worked, went to school and attended houses of worship. They were real people — people who did not warrant to have their lives taken from them.
As HRC continues to work toward justice and equality for transgender and gender-expansive people, we mourn those we have lost in 2021:
- Tyianna Alexander, who was also known as Davarea Alexander, was a 28-year-old Ebony trans woman. Tyianna was shot to death in Chicago on Janua
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 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 exhibit 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, queer , bisexual, transgender and homosexual person in this land 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 detest crimes data shows that even as public acceptance of LGBTQ+ people continu
New data: LGBT people across all demographics are at heightened risk of vicious victimization
A modern report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics highlights just how common vicious victimization is among women, LGB people, and trans people.
by Emily Widra, July 11, 2022
A new publication from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Violent Victimization by Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, 2017-2020, supports the expansive evidence we already have that LGBT people — and particularly young adults, people of shade , women, and pansexual people — are at heightened peril of violent victimization compared to their straight and cisgender1 counterparts.
We already comprehend that LGBTQ+ people are overrepresented at every stage of the criminal legal system. And the line between victim and perpetrator is often blurry; many people who commit violent crimes hold also been victims of violence and trauma throughout their lives. This modern data reinforces that the way to break this cycle is not through punishment and incarceration, but rather back for programs that prevent violent victimization in the first place.
Defining violent victimization
The report is based on statistics from th