Anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes up 84% in two years

Despite years of falling crime rates, there's been an 84% increase in anti-LGBTQ+ hate crimes in two years due to Reich-Wing scapegoating and demagoguery. With their constant demonizing of Trans folk, gender-identity based hate crimes are up 78%.
Look out for one another.

Hate Crimes Are Up, Especially Against LGBTQ People. Advocates Blame the GOP.

 

We all know of Matthew Shepard and his depraved murder, in a far away, remote place. The attached article will show LGBTQ people targeted for murder in the heart of New York City. Celebrating the brave people who cracked the case. The perps dont seem MAGA.

Miranda Devine: Anguished mom gets justice after refusing to stay silent about gang preying on young gay men

 

Reminds me of the late 70's early 80's with squads of police raiding gay bars and beating men unconscious, or patrons at the local Zody's throwing heavy objects at men holding hands in the store to get them to leave. I know there are some that will say, these things never happened, and you can bet that in 45 years from now there will be those who claim this situation never happened.

Those who hate never like to admit it or remember it. There are still those who claim the Holocaust never happened.

 

There will be more.
Our current government not just allows but embraces bullying and phobia-based actions.

 

It's a genocide. I don't care what anyone says. The hate flowing from the top enables violence against the LGBTQ+ community through endorsement. X was full of people laughing about at 17 year old trans girl's suicide this morning. It's sickening. The right knows this.

This is by design.

May we all survive the next 3 and a half years

 

Why do people today believe that violence and dismissal of LGBTQ+ communities is something new that has never happened before?

1. Historical Amnesia and Educational Gaps
Many people simply don’t know the history. Public education in the U.S. often glosses over or erases uncomfortable truths:

• The Lavender Scare in the 1950s saw thousands of LGBTQ+ people purged from government jobs.
  
  
• Police raids on gay bars, like the infamous 1969 Stonewall Riots, were common.
  
  
• The AIDS crisis in the 1980s saw government indifference as LGBTQ+ people died in droves, with Reagan not even publicly acknowledging the epidemic for years.
  

Likewise, systemic atrocities against broader groups — including Black Americans, Native Americans, immigrants, and women — have deep roots in U.S. policy.

2. Generational Perception
People often perceive what’s happening in their lifetime as more intense or more unique than it may actually be.

• For younger generations, this may be their first direct encounter with state-sanctioned hate or rollback of civil rights.
  
  
• For older generations, there’s sometimes a tendency to forget just how bad things were — or to believe progress was linear and permanent.
  

3. Media Framing and Echo Chambers
Modern media — particularly social media — amplifies immediacy and outrage.

• Coverage often lacks historical context, focusing on what’s “breaking” rather than what’s repeating.
  
  
• Algorithms drive content that validates a sense of uniqueness or catastrophe, sometimes divorcing present issues from past patterns.
  

4. Weaponized Political Narratives
Both political parties, at different times, have framed the current moment as uniquely dangerous — to rally support, justify actions, or distract from systemic continuity.

• It’s easier to demonize “the other side” by pretending this is the first time something so egregious has occurred.
  
  
• But this risks ignoring the bipartisan nature of many policies and the long arc of institutional harm.
  

5. Denial of Past Trauma
For many, it’s uncomfortable to admit that the government has long been capable of atrocities — because that undermines the narrative of American exceptionalism. It’s easier to view harm as an aberration, rather than a pattern.

None of this is new, it's happened before and will continue to happen. All people, of every standaing have been Marginalized and Brutalized Nationwide and Worldwide for hundreds of Generations. Feeling like this is something new or unexpected is to disconnect from historical fact.

THe only thing new in this era is the advent f instant media.THe ability to see what is happening without waiting for someone to report it tonight, tomorrow, or next week.

 

No offense, but no one is saying that.

Recognizing it's on the rise is different from, "this is new."

Believe me. We know

 

I attended St Petersburg, FL PRIDE. The park venues were surrounded by 10' high fences with very few checkpoints, one per park, where to enter you were scanned and your bags searched...but not until you've endured the gauntlet of street preachers with bullhorns screaming how much god hates you at the captive audience of people standing in the interminable lines. SPPD patrol boats meandered back and forth along the Bayshore seawall and helicopters circled overhead. For the 10-block long Central Avenue venue every cross street was blocked by a chevron of two city garbage trucks to prevent vehicular ramming attacks, and uniformed police were everywhere, I assume augmented by video surveillance and undercover officers too.
I appreciate their efforts to guarantee my 1st Amendment rights, but the atmosphere was somewhat oppressive and claustrophobic; perhaps they were responding to intel of threats we're unaware of; judging from graffiti Patriot Front is active in the downtown area. Rather than celebratory, the vibe was tempered with sadness that this level of security was felt to be necessary in this day and age.