In the first week of June, the killings of two gay men and a transgendered woman in Detroit and a gay man outside Atlanta have highlighted an alarming uptick in attacks against LGBTQ people and hate crimes in general, activists say.
"The month has really started very tragically," Georgia Equality Executive Director Jeff Graham told ABC News."This is part of the challenging times in which we live. We know that the discrimination of LGBT folks is at an all time high."
Georgia Equality's Graham noted that visibility for the LGBTQ community is especially high this month, particularly because the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots against a police raid of an iconic gay bar is on June 28. "We've certainly seen the current administration roll back protections for transgendered folks in housing and healthcare," Graham said."When you have administrative and legislative action it does have correlation in seeing spikes in terms of violence."
Georgia Equality's Graham agrees."The violence and murder rate for trans folks, especially trans women of color, is just unacceptable."
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