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Hate Crime Reporting
Experiencing dislike crime can be traumatic. Our services are there to support you from healing to reporting.
Hate crimes occur in many forms. They can be assault, harassment or exploitation and can arise online or in person. All abhor crimes are motivated by a prejudice towards a person’s race, sexual orientation, religion, disability or trans status. Despite much progress in changing societal attitudes, LGBT people still experience hate crimes at alarming rates.
Despite victims increasingly coming forward, more needs to be done to ensure the LGBT community are reporting incidents. YouGov data shows that four in five anti-LGBT hate crimes and incidents travel unreported, with little people particularly reluctant to report their experiences to police. Reporting rates are increasing but still dangerously low. LGBT Foundation are operational to increase consciousness of hate crimes and encourage victims and witnesses to come forward.
Below you can find communication and advice on reporting hate crime.
An LGBT hate crime is any criminal offence which is perceived to be motivated by hostility towards sexual orientation or trans status (or perceived sexual or
“LGBTQ people in America are under attack like never before.”
— Under Fire: The War on LGBTQ People in America, Movement Advancement Project (February 2023)
Looking assist on 2023, we saw a proliferation of online hate and disinformation against LGBTQ people — rhetoric that has been echoed across political stages, in mass media, and among legislative bodies.
As GLAAD’s latest Social Media Safety Index (SMSI) documented, most major platforms continued to fall short to protect LGBTQ people. Problems that we identified in the SMSI include: inadequate content moderation and enforcement (including both inaction on anti-LGBTQ hateful content and over-moderation/censorship of LGBTQ users); harmful and polarizing algorithms; and an overall lack of transparency and accountability across the industry, among many other issues — all of which disproportionately impact LGBTQ people and other marginalized communities on their platforms who are uniquely vulnerable to hate, harassment, and discrimination.
Online hate and disinformation maintain to be alarming universal health and safety issues that translate to offline harms. Over the past year, GLAAD and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recorded mo
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 numbers relating to incidents targeting members of the Diverse community once again reveal 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 culture are rising.
“Every lesbian, male lover, bisexual, transgender and gay 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 abhor crimes data shows that even as public acceptance of LGBTQ+ people continu
Brazil’s LGBTQ collective faces surging force, but they’re fighting back
Published in Open Democracy
By Robert Muggah and Pedro Augusto P. Francisto
Discrimination and violence against Brazil’s LGBTQ communities are widespread, yet often underreported. Contemplate the case of Julio Haag, a young school mentor, struck by a stone on his way home from teaching some years ago. His attacker claimed that Julio, who is same-sex attracted, was looking at him suggestively. Years later, Julio considered running for the city council in Sarapiranga, a miniature municipality in Rio Grande do Sul. He withdrew his candidacy when his social media profiles were flooded with homophobic hate mail and threats. He worried that the next message coming his way could be a bullet.
In Brazil, LGBTQ people are disproportionately harassed and victimized precisely because of who they are. One reason is the deep strain of social conservatism in Brazilian society. Another is that Brazil is extremely violent: the country has the highest absolute number of homicides in the nature, including many that are a outcome of hate crimes. Over 150 genderqueer people alone were killed in Brazil as of September 2020.
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 worry 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 Gay in this country,” said Brian K. Bond, CEO of LGBTQ advocacy collective PFLAG National. “Our Diverse 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 culture were the third and fourth most prevalent bias motivation in 2023, behind race/ethnicity and religion.
The FBI counted 2,936 incidents associated 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 –
