There have been 932 anti -LGBTQ incidents across the United States in the past year – hatred speeches and threats of deadly violence – with more than half of these acts targeting transgender and people who do not comply with gender, according to a new report by the LGBTQ Glaad advocacy group.
The report revealed an increase from one year to the other of the incidents targeting transgender and non -compliant people, the governments of states and premises, and educators and librarians. He also found a decrease in incidents targeting drag performers and symbols of pride.
“It will really show these kinds of changing tides in hatred and what extremists like to focus at the moment,” Sarah Moore, analyst of anti-LGBTQ extremism in Glaad, in NBC News, told NBC News. “They are really indebted to the new cycle of the day.”
This is the third year that Glaad has published an annual report based on his anti-LGBTQ extremism report. The 932 incidents followed in the latter report took place between May 1, 2024 and May 1, 2025. This is a decrease of 20% compared to 1,173 incidents from last year and an increase of 80% compared to the 521 incidents followed in its inaugural report in 2023.
Glaad defines anti-LGBTQ incidents as “acts of harassment, threats, vandalism and criminal and non-criminal aggression motivated by hateful anti-LGBTQ”. The incidents are followed by self-assessment, media reports, publications on social networks and the sharing of data from partner organizations and the police, then validated by a GLAAD team.
Moore plans that the incidents followed in the report are “only a drop in the bucket in terms of what is really happening with regard to anti-lgbtq hatred”.
“This is more an instantaneous of the lived experience of LGBTQ people, instead of being an exact exact representation of each hatred incident in the United States,” she said.
One of the most surprising conclusions of this year report said Moore was the sharp decrease in incidents targeting trail artists, which dropped to 83 incidents followed from 185 the previous year.
“It really shows the resilience of the drag community, and that we have seen them take all these amazing steps to protect their own personal security, protect the security of their audience and work with community security organizations,” she said.
Coinciding with this decrease in anti-drag incidents is an increase in incidents targeting local and state government and librarians.
“We have seen a certain number of our incidents, in fact, by pursuing officials of the municipal council, by pursuing political candidates who are either LGBTQ or who support the community, continuing the legislators at the level of the state who try to protect or devote LGBTQ rights and to pursue educators and librarians which offer safe spaces for young LGBTQs in their classes and libraries, ”said Moore.
Anti-LGBTQ incidents take place more frequently in June, according to the last two years of reporting by the anti-lgbtq extremism reporting from Glaad.
“This is most likely attributed to the fact that June is the month of pride, and this is when we will have the greatest number of LGBTQ events and the most visible events,” said Moore. “In June, for example, DC holds WorldPride, which will be a truly massive event and a truly massive performance of support for the LGBTQ community in the United States and in the world.”
When asked if Glaad had security advice for those who planned to attend the events of the month of pride this year, Moore noted that one of the characteristics of the LGBTQ community is his “resilience and strength”.
“This hatred, unfortunately, is not new to us. We are dealing with persecution, with oppression, with these acts of hatred against our community for centuries,” she said, adding that the first marches of pride were demonstrations organized on the first anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising.
“So I think that I really prepare these inheritances of pride as a form of protest, pride as a form of resistance, pride as a refusal to allow others to define and legislate our body and tell us that we must be kept in private spaces and not display our true authentic for the rest of the world.”
