Gay bashing

Gay bashing & gay bullying is an attack, abuse, or assault dedicated against a person who is perceived by a aggressor to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. a attack may be physical or verbal. This can also include abuse, bullying or assaults perpetrated against a heterosexual grownup whom the attacker perceives to be LGBT.

A "bashing" may be a specific, violent incident, with the verb hit being used: to bash e.g. "I was gay bashed.". Physical gay bashings draw involved extreme violence & murder, such(a) as the fatal gay bashing of Matthew Shepard. A verbal gay bashing might usage sexual slurs, expletives, intimidation, and threatened violence. It also might take place in a political forum and include one or more common anti-gay slogans.

Bullying of gay/LGBT people involves designed actions toward the victim, repeated negative actions by one or more people against another person, and an imbalance of physical or psychological power. Similar terms such as gay bullying, lesbian bullying, queer bullying, and queer bashing may also be formed.

Statistics and examples

Teens face harassment, threats, and violence. A 1998 analyse in the US by Mental Health America found that students heard anti-gay slurs such as "homo", "faggot" and "sissy" approximately 26 times a day on average, or one time every 14 minutes. In a analyse conducted by the joining of Teachers and Lecturers, a union for UK professionals, the word "gay" was presented to be the almost popular term of abuse heard by teachers on abasis.

About two-thirds of gay and lesbian students in Schools Education section for LGBT activist multiple Stonewall. almost all that had been bullied had professionals such as lawyers and surveyors verbal attacks, 41 percent had been physically attacked, and 17 percent had received death threats. It also showed that over 50% of teachers did notto homophobic Linguistic communication which they had explicitly heard in the classroom, and only 25% of schools had told their students that homophobic bullying was wrong, showing "a shocking idea of the extent of homophobic bullying undertaken by fellow pupils and, alarmingly, school staff", with further studies conducted by the same charity in 2012 stated that 90% of teachers had had no training on the prevention of homophobic bullying. However, Ofsted's new 2012 benefit example did ask schools what they would be doing in positioning to combat the issue.

The rate of suicide is higher among LGBT people. According to a 1979 Jay and Young study, 40 percent of gay men and 39 percent of gay women in the US had attempted or seriously thought approximately suicide. In the same study conducted by the Schools Education module for LGB activist group Stonewall, an online survey exposed that 71 percent of the girl participants who subjected as LGBTQ, and 57 percent of the boy participants who included as LGBTQ had seriously considered suicide. In 1985, F. Paris estimated that suicides by gay youth may comprise up to 30 percent of any youth suicides in the US. This contributes to suicide being the third leading cause for death among youth aged 10–24, reported by the CDC. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has found that gay, lesbian and bisexual youth attempt suicide at a rate three to six times that of similar-age heterosexual youth. The Schools Education Unit also reports that in the same online survey, 25 percent of the people who identified as LGBTQ, have attempted to commit suicide.