In West Virginia, a man was repeatedly harassed for being gay, having his car dangerously tampered with.http://wvpublic.org/post/inside-appalachia-finding-love-tolerance-instead-racism-homophobia#stream/0 …
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He and his partner feared for their lives. He bought a gun.
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In the Shenandoah National Park, not far from where I live, two queer women were killed in a suspected hate crime. http://appalachiantrailhistory.org/exhibits/show/doublemurderontheat/thegaycommunityandhatecrimeleg …
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In an act of random, but not LGBT targeted violence, a man randomly attacked a couple with a shotgun.http://articles.dailypress.com/2011-03-24/news/ro-blue-ridge-parkway-shooter-says-he20110324_1_ralph-leon-jackson-blue-ridge-parkway-christina-floyd …
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In Kentucky, two men were charged for a hate crime for beating a gay man.https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/12/2-face-federal-hate-crime-charge-in-ky-gay-attack.amp.html …
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This thread is too unpleasant to continue with examples. The point being that random violence and hate violence is real.
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LGBT folks have almost no tracking for our epidemiological outcomes. And not having the opportunity to provide data via census hurts.
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There are communities that legitimately believe they have no LGBT folks among them. This is statistically absurd.
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But the invisibility and erasure *also* means that crimes against--or by--LGBT folks gets hidden. The truth is obscured.
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The census is the least elegant approach to solving for this but it at least provides mostly indisputable data.
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We can't completely understand transphobic and homophobic violence without data. But we can believe people when they speak about it.
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Same with bathroom laws. The GOP wants to deny trans the right to exist in public. Related: Silence = Death.
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