In New York, a gay bar’s windows were smashed with bricks several times within a month last year. More than half of such threats have explicitly referred to gay and trans people as pedophiles and “groomers”, invoking the long-running homophobic and transphobic smear. Protests and acts of violence against drag performers and drag events incited by homophobic and transphobic abuse have surged over the last year, with a marked increase in online rhetoric against LGBT+ people fuelling offline threats, according to a report published this week by the extremism watchdogs at Institute for Strategic DialogueĪ separate report this week from the Anti-Defamation League and GLAAD documented more than 350 acts of harassment, vandalism and violence against LGBT+ people and events from June 2022 through April 2023. The nation’s largest Pride event follows a volatile, record-breaking year of legislative threats to LGBT+ people and a wave of reports of harassment and violent threats targeting LGBT+ communities.
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