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Under Fire Series: The War on LGBTQ People in America

In "Under Fire," a new series of reports, MAP connects the dots on the varied ways that LGBTQ people are under siege from a targeted and coordinated campaign to undermine equality and ultimately erase LGBTQ people from widespread life.

Click below to browse and download each inform in the series.

  • "Under Fire: The War on LGBTQ People in America" — Report #1, PDFDownload

  • Press Let go, Report #1Read more

  • "Erasing LGBTQ People from Schools and Public Life"  — Inform #2, PDFDownload

  • Press Release, Describe #2Read more

  • "Erecting Systemic and Structural Barriers to Construct Change Harder"  — Announce #3, PDFDownload the report

  • Press Release, Report #3Read more

  • "Enshrining Inequality for LGBTQ People"  — Report #4, PDFDownload

  • Press Release, Report #4Read more

  • "Banning Medical Care and Legal Recognition for Transgender People"  — Report #5, PDFDownload the Report

  • Press Release, Announce #5Read more

  • "Silencing Supporters of LGBTQ People"  — State #6, PDFDownload

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    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 despise crimes are motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ bias

    WASHINGTON — The FBI today released its annual report looking back at loathe crimes numbers for the prior calendar year — and for 2023, the hate crime facts relating to incidents targeting members of the LGBTQ+ collective once again demonstrate disturbing, record-breaking numbers. Even as aggression in the nation overall is continuing to drop, reports of hate crime incidents targeting people for their sexual orientation or gender identity are rising.

    “Every lesbian, gay, bisexual person, transgender and lgbtq+ person in this country should be free to inhabit their lives without fear that we’ll be the victim of a forceful incident purely because of who we are and who we love,” said Kelley Robinson, Human Rights Campaign President. “Unfortunately, the latest FBI hate crimes data shows that even as widespread acceptance of Diverse people continu

    Austrian police arrest 15 over wave of LGBTQ hate attacks

    Austrian investigators on Friday said they had arrested 15 people in connection with a wave of hate crime attacks against LGBTQ people.

    The 12 men and three women are accused of creating fake dating platform accounts to lure LGBTQ people to locations where they were attacked.

    What did Austrian police say about the attacks?

    Criminal investigator Michael Lohnegger said the alleged perpetrators had tricked at least 17 people into going to remote locations.

    Once there, several masked individuals attacked the victims, with the assaults filmed and uploaded to groups online. 

    Investigators said the suspects had falsely accused their victims of being pedophiles.

    "None of the victims is a pedophile," said Joachim Huber, deputy police chief of the state of Styria.

    The suspects are between the ages of 14 and 26 and included 11 Austrians, a German citizen, a Croatian, a Romanian and a Slovakian citizen, according to authorities.

    Investigators said they assumed the number of victims was much higher than the reported figures. During house raids, officers were said to have recovered weapons and Nazi memorabilia.

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    Today, GLAAD has announced the findings of its third annual ALERT Desk Inform – our Anti-LGBTQ Extremism Reporting Tracker, which documents anti-LGBTQ incidents and trends in hate and extremism across the US.

    Read the full report here.

    Between May 1, 2024 and May 1, 2025, the Aware Desk tracked 932 anti-LGBTQ incidents in 49 US states and the District of Columbia – the equivalent of 2.5 incidents every day. 52% of all incidents were also specifically targeting transgender and gender non-conforming people. Aggressive attacks included in this year’s count resulted in 84 injuries and 10 deaths; eight of which involved fatal violence against people of color.

    These numbers tell a story not captured by the media and law enforcement. Dislike crime statutes and reporting are inconsistent, confusing, and often ignored. Federal agencies, like the Bureau of Justice Statistics, are also removing mention of gender identity from their survey work. Victims may be unwilling to report on their experiences as they navigate forced outing and lack of trust of local law enforcement. The ALERT Desk seeks to remedy these issues by providing a dedicated cosmos to tell the story of every LGBTQ person

    New data: Rise in hate crime against Gay people continues, Stonewall slams UK Gov ‘inaction’

    New hate crime statistics released today by the ONS reveal that England and Wales continues to change into a less safe place for lesbian, gay, bi and trans people.

    • The grow in hate crimes against trans people by 11% in a year, and by 186% in the last five years, comes against a backdrop of UK Government drawing help its support for transsexual people and the development of divisive and demonising rhetoric about trans people in society.
    • Hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation are still up by 112% in the last five years, despite this year's slight diminish of 6%.
    • Hate crimes based on sexual orientation and transgender identity are the most likely to involve violence or threats of violence.
    • Statistics only provide a snapshot of the actual world, with the vast majority of victims not reporting their experiences to the police. The Government's possess statistics suggest fewer than one in ten Homosexual people report hate crimes or incidents.

    These figures pursue a recent British Social Attitudes survey which revealed Britain that is becoming more prejudiced as a nation towards trans people. The Ho