Report: Anti-gay violence on rise

(New York City) The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs said Tuesday that the number of violent crimes against LGBT people is up significantly in 2008.

The coalition supports local LGBT organizations in their work to end violence.

Since the February murder of 15 year-old Lawrence King and the brutal beating of Duanna Johnson, there have been at least 13 brutal and violent LGBT hate crimes throughout the country. The organization added that the reported crimes only may be a small number of the total, since many LGBT people are reluctant to go to police, and many of the attacks that are reported are not listed by authorities as hate crimes.

The NCAVP said that the growing hate crimes may indicate a frightening trend of increases in both the number and severity of anti-LGBT violence.

“This is extremely disturbing and saddening. We are witnessing what appears to be an increase in both the occurrence and severity of violence motivated by racism, homophobia, and transphobia,” said Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project.


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..... i.e. the approval of same-sex marriage in California, or a black man running for president, or media demonization of "illegals."
The climate has been created. Fear those who are somehow different.

You guys are easy targets for the further and further frustrated FReeps. Take no shit from them. Not to make you paranoid but be ready.

and remember you got a lot of straight folks rooting for you so please don't let yourself fall to bitterness.

It Always gets rougher on the brink of a major social change and paradigm shift.Look at the civil war,the civil rights movement in the 60s. The suffragette movement in the 1900s. So please take heart! Ignorance ALWAYS gets more violent when its gasping its last dying breath.