A Crisis of Hate }Report Says More LGBT's Killed in (1/2) 2017 Than Entire 2016

  
                                                                   

2017 Hate violence homicides

NCAVP collected information on 36 anti-LGBTQ homicides in the rst eight months of 2017 alone. This is a 29% increase compared to the total number of individual reports of anti- LGBTQ homicides in all of 2016.

Of the total number of homicides in 2017 thus far, 75% of the victims were people of color: 20 (56%) of the victims were Black, 3 were Latinx, 2 were Asian, and 1 was Native. 9 (25%) of the victims were white. 1 victim’s racial identity is unknown to NCAVP at this time.

Over the last ve years, NCAVP has reported a consistent if not steady rise of reports of homicides of transgender and gender non-conforming people. Thus far in 2017, NCAVP has already collected information on 19 hate-violence related homicides of transgender and gender non-conforming people, compared to 19 reports in the entire year of 2016. Seventeen victims in 2017 were transgender women or transfeminine people: 14 Black transgender women, 1 Latinx transgender woman, 1 Native Two Spirit transgender woman, and 1 white person who identi ed as femandrogyne.

In addition to this trend, there has been a signi cant increase in reports of anti-LGBTQ homicides of queer, bi, and gay cisgender men this year. As of August 2017, NCAVP has recorded 17 anti-LGBTQ homicides of cisgender men, compared to just 4 reports in all of 2016. Of the victims who were queer, bi, or gay cisgender men, 53% were men of color. The majority of the victims who were cisgender men of color (78%) were between the ages of 19 to 35, while the majority of cisgender men who were white (86%) were between the ages of 46 to 67. Additionally, 59% of the homicides of queer, bi, or gay cisgender men were related to hook up violence.

So far in 2017, the majority of the homicides of cisgender queer, bi, and gay men have been related to hooking up online or through personal ads. There appears to be a trend of targeting queer, bi, or gay cisgender men for violence, robbery and homicides, and other cisgender men are using these sites to identify and harm them. Furthermore, there are ways that stigma, shame and societal pressure may be contributing factors in hook up homicides where both individuals are queer, bi, or gay men.

NCAVP was able to collect information on victims’ relationship to their alleged o ender in 23 of the 36 total reports in 2017. Of the 23 where information was available, 43% of the homicides were related to hook up violence, 22% were strangers and non-hook up related, 26% of the victims knew their o ender and was non-hook up related, and 9% were related to police violence. In terms of gender identity, 59% of the homicides of cisgender men were related to hook up violence. There is little information available on alleged o enders of homicides of transgender and gender non-conforming people. Of the 6 homicides of transgender and gender non-conforming people where information on alleged o fenders was available, 3 knew the alleged o ender, 1 was a stranger and non-hook up, and 2 were police shootings. Guns were used in 47% of the total number of homicides thus far in 2017.

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