FBI crime statistics show anti-LGBTQ hate crimes on the rise

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Biden recognized several LGBTQ people and allies who lost their lives to anti-LGBTQ violence this year, including O'Shae Sibley, who was fatally stabbed while dancing at Brooklyn gas station; Colin Smith, who was killed while defending a friend from anti-LGBTQ harassment; and Laura Ann Carleton, who was shot and killed by a man who made "disparaging remarks" about a rainbow Pride flag displayed outside her clothing store in Lake Arrowhead, Calif.Biden similarly warned of increasing anti-LGBTQ violence last week in a statement marking the 25th anniversary of the killing of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at the University of Wyoming who was brutally attacked and later died of his injuries in one of the most notorious anti-gay hate crimes in U.S. history.
50% : More than 500 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced in state legislatures this year, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and at least 84 became law.
47% : ""The constant stream of hostile rhetoric from fringe anti-equality figures, alongside the relentless passage of discriminatory bills, particularly those targeting transgender individuals, in state legislatures, created an environment where it was sadly foreseeable that individuals with violent tendencies might respond to this rhetoric," Robinson said Monday in a statement.

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