Community And Hate Crimes In The LGBTQ Community

Hate crime is a motivated violent act by a group or individual perpetrator towards a specific race, colour or religion (Collins, Pg 93,192). For many years, authority figures and the media have ignored hate crime offences towards individuals who identify under the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) umbrella. Up until the 20th century and prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, LGBTQ persons have been victimized in violent crimes based solely on gender identification and orientation. With a myriad of events, cases and unreported individual incidents the burden of proof towards hate crime on LQBTQ increased. The development of North American law towards LGBTQ citizens has improved throughout the last two decades. However, there

“Aragones said a hate crime is any offense motivated by bias, prejudice, or hate based on sex, sexual orientation, or any other similar factor, including damaging the honor or the reputation of the victim, or a group of persons to which the victim belongs, on account of their actual or supposed sexual identity. Under the Revised Penal Code, a person who commits a Crime Against Persons or Against Chastity against a member of the LGBT community shall suffer the maximum penalty imposed by the law if it is proven that the act complained of is in the nature of a hate crime.” (Solon wants, 2013) Many times these crimes are just pushed over like petty assault charges and the victims are given nothing. Often times the charges of a crime produced by hate, the sentence isn’t even doubled(Lewin, A. 2014).

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In this Gays and lesbians deserve equal protection against the hate crimes that happen in the world. Aren't we told as young children and also throughout life to treat others as we would want to be treated? So why are some decimated against based on sexual preference? The statistics show the percentages of the hate discrimination against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community. The violence that they are pitted against, due to people's discrimination against them, in life. And I will also mention the discrimination that the LGBT community goes through and what they miss out based on sexual preference.

LGBT is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender. It is intended to highlight a diversity of sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. Historically, LGBT people have had to deal with being brutalised and misunderstood because of the misconception that being gay is different and deserves different treatment. However, there are efforts being made daily by the community in order to educate people and ease their fears. The purpose of the following analysis is to deconstruct how people who fought back while growing up realizing they are apart of community help shaped and/or will shape them to become strong roles for LGBT people around the world.

Based on the discussion from the Williams Institute, it is evident that there continues to be a prevalence of discrimination among groups that are not viewed as culturally acceptable in our county. In this article, it is reported that people are more likely to experience hate crimes based on their sexual orientations. For instance, 44% of people reported experience physical violence (without a weapon) because of their sexual orientation, and 80% had been verbally harassed (Herek, 2009). Although the Hates Crimes Statistic Law became effective in 1990, the stigma surrounding the LGBTQ community continues to affect their everyday life. It may defer a person by identified their sexual orientation for the fear of being discriminating in the workplace,

665). Hate crimes can range from trespassing and harassment to destruction of property to right out violence which carries a punishment for such as act in the criminal justice system. Statistics show that 17.4% of nearly 88,463 hate crimes were targeted toward sexual minorities which is eight times the expected rate for this group population (Hatzenbuehler et al., 2015).

Until 1973, the American Psychiatric Association regarded the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community as consisting of sociopathic individuals with personality disorders. Today, the stigma has lifted off of these individuals and relationships among the LGBTs are no longer crimes in the US and many other countries; however, select individuals have now taken matters into their own hands exercising differential justice in the form of transnational hate crimes against the social group. In the US alone, roughly one in five all its hate crimes are motivated by the victim's sexual

Any discrimination or noticeable harm to LGBTQ identifiers will be classified as a hate crime. In the last couple years in the United States some breakthroughs have been made regarding LGBTQ identifiers. Same sex marriage is now federally legal. It is also the right of these couples to start a family. However, that doesn’t always mean that it is easy. Laws are also in place that stat employers cannot discriminate workers based on their sexual orientation, but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen. We often don’t hear about these instances as often as we do about large attacks on these people. A shooting a nightclub directly impacted the LGBTQ community. It was a brutal hate crime (“About LBGT Human Rights,” 2016). Someone who is gay, lesbian, bisexual or anything else is no less of a person. Therefor they should be treated with the same criteria as all

Courage is standing up for what you believe is right, even when you know others will hate you or worse. There are multiple activists for the LGBTQ+ community, yet there have still been more hate crimes against the community. The community has been involved in hate crimes since the 1960s, and even before that. 50-60 or more years may seem like a long time to teenagers and young adults, but it’s actually not. People in the community have died to others acts against a person being with someone of the same sex or changing their gender identity. There are multiple reasons why hate crimes on the LGBTQ+ community need to be lowered drastically.

In addition to social persecution, people who identify on the LGBTQ spectrum are at a higher risk of experiencing violence In 2010, the FBI reported in a hate crime statistics report that 19.3% of hate crimes in that year were motivated by a sexual orientation bias. Based on national statistics, more than 50% of transgendered youth will attempt suicide at least once by the age of 20 “Statistics About Youth Suicide”. These numbers are shocking, and it’s baffling that these youth have to live under the pressure of violence and mental illness all while being barred from the rights they

With more and more people coming out and developing their sexual identity each year. I feel as future social workers we have an obligation to support and respect this community as well as each person's identity. Our job involves understanding this population and advocating for equal rights for all individuals. It is clear that the concept of social justice will not be realized until society can embrace the notion that different does not mean bad.“The only idea involved in all questions of sexual orientation are the great transcendent issues of justice and love. Acceptance of the homosexual community will leave both communities free from the need to conform to narrow stereotypes and free to develop all the qualities that belong to the fullness of the human personality.”( Blackwell, C. W., Ricks, J. L., & Dziegielewski, S. F.

The LGBTQ community is always being targeted. The community is targeted in almost every region of the United States. Where we see the most hate as of now is in North Carolina. That state has a strict Anti-LGBTQ bill as we see in the article “North Carolina’s controversial anti LGBTQ bill” explained by Avianne Tan “through North Carolina does have a statewide nondiscrimination law, it does not include specific protections for LGBTQ people” North Carolina is basically breaking their own law just because they do not accept a certain group of people. In another article titled “North Carolina’s terrible Anti LGBT law is even worse than we though” by Nina Martin states, “opponents have called the new law a hostile takeover of human rights” These

Everyone is affected by different issues with the justice system, but there are a variety of specific issues that many LGBTQ+ members are faced with such as homophobia, discrimination, and increased victimization.

B-Thesis Statement: Inequalities continue to abound in LGBT-inclusive education because of the prevalence of the heteronormative framework and the false solidarity of oppressors towards equality and diversity. Social work education should deconstruct heteronormative discourse and dismantle the false oppressor´s goodwill by the use of the anti-oppressive approach and queer theory as pedagogical methods.