Why 2016 was the deadliest year ever for the LGBTQ community

A disturbing new report out Monday — exactly one year after the massacre at Pulse — reveals an alarming increase in violence against the LGBTQ community, particularly its most marginalized members, especially people of color.

The bloodbath that targeted a popular Central Florida club for the LGBTQ community on its “Latin Night” pushed the numbers to a staggering 77 total homicides in 2016.

But according to the snapshot by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, the reason for the uptick is not solely the horrific slaughter of those 49 clubgoers and employees at the club in Orlando, Florida on June 12, 2016. The violence LGBTQ people experienced in 2016, the report said, was also online, at the hands of police, and at the hands of people they knew.

Statistics compiled by the NCAVP show that in addition to that attack, killers took the lives of 28 LGBTQ people in 2016, an increase of 17 percent, from 24 homicides in 2015.

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