Andrea Sanna
Over 40 attacks occurred in over 40 US cities during LGBTQIA+ month
Acts of homotransphobic vandalism that occurred in 21 states of the Union both in Democratic-led states such as California, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Washington State, and in Republican-led states such as Idaho, Montana, Texas and West Virginia. Acts of homotransphobia that were allegedly carried out mainly by “lone wolves”.
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Benjiamin C. Mizer (Interim Associate Attorney General): “We have seen an increase in hate-motivated violence against the LGBTQIA+ community. There are many communities that are afraid to report to state or local law enforcement, and sometimes those fears are rooted in a history of troubling relationships between those communities and their local law enforcement”.
Here are some episodes.
Over 150 Rainbow flags were vandalized outside the Stonewall Monument, while in a city in the state of Oregon, a madman fired several shots at a Rainbow flag displayed outside a public library. And three teenagers were later arrested by police on charges of vandalizing a rainbow crosswalk in Washington State.
Amanda Gentry (victim of homotransphobic vandalism) told LGBTQNation that the first time she raised the Rainbow flag for Pride outside her law office in Warren, Tennessee, her gay associates had warned her to possible retaliation. The night after displaying it, a man was filmed by security cameras outside the office destroying the Rainbow flag into a thousand pieces.
Senegal increasingly homotransphobic
Worrying data, in fact, the non-governmental organization for the defense of human rights, the Human Rights Watch, has declared that in the last six months – in the United States of America – over 30 anti-LGBTQIA+ laws have come into force, compared to 84 that were issued in the previous year.
A situation that could become increasingly explosive if Donald Trump were to be re-elected to the White House.
