Homosexuals
What exactly is a homosexual? A homosexual is anywhere from gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender, also know as ‘LGBT’. Through the years many people have had a rough time accepting these people, some harder than others. People who are LGBT are usually attacked by hate, aggression and violence, physically and mentally. Hate crimes against LGBT people usually happen because the person is either homophobic or transphobic.
A hate crime is when people go against you because of your race, religion or sexuality. In 2011 there was a report of about 1,572 hate crimes against people's sexuality. This made up of about 20.4% of the total crimes of that year. In the past there has been many violent assaults against gay men and women
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Throughout the years many gay bars/clubs have been shot up. One of the biggest shooting of the year 2016 was the orlando shooting. A gunman killed 49 people and hurt 53 one night on June 12 at a nightclub called ‘pulse’. This happened from the hours of 1am to 3am. (Stapleton, pg.1). From the past I do believe that the hate has lowered. If you take it back to the 90’s or so it was something horrible to be LGBT. Most people would get shamed, their families would think they were embarrassing or people thought that when LGBT people showed public affection that it was just wrong, disrespectful or disgusting. There have been many incidents where someone has showed disrespect to someone for being different as in their sexuality.
I personally believe that someone should not be discriminated for any reason. Whether it is their sexuallity or race. I feel like everyone should always be treated equally and whether or not they choose to be different isn't anyone's business except their own. There have been some cases in which people started petitions because of how bad incidents with hate crime have been. I just think people should stop the hate and be happy with life and everyone around