In 1973, Raymond Broshears, a gay Pentecostal Evangelist preacher, banded together a group of queer folks fed up with the lack of police response to anti-LGBTQ assault crimes in San Francisco. Broshears formed the Lavender Panthers, a name inspired by the revolutionary political organization the Black Panthers, after he became the victim of a homophobic attack. While Broshears brandished a gun, other members carried makeshift weapons, like pool sticks, and patrolled the streets of San Francisco in an effort to keep LGBTQ people safe.
Fast forward to today and the threats have changed, but unfortunately, the need for self-defense remains.
Dorothy, a trans woman, was threatened with physical violence several months ago on her way home from work. A person approached her using offensive language and threatened to shoot her. Though she didn’t know whether the perpetrator was armed, she stood her ground. Dorothy says she had a firearm on her at the time, giving her a layer of self-defense.
This is one of many times Dorothy has been threatened. “There have been numerous times over the last 20 years, particularly online,” she says.
As more queer folks turn to firearm training for self-defense, they are finding community. Many say that training with a group helps to establish connections with other queer gun owners and to improve shooting ability.
Carly says that firearms are not only tools for safety but enforcers of dignity for some trans women. “We’re not weak,” she says. “You can call me a sissy, but you can’t call me soft.”
— Jake Angelo in More Transgender Americans Are Arming Themselves Under Trump
That’s great. Everyone should.
Here’s a funny stat: by the numbers LGBT’s are more likely to be attacked by fellow LGBT’s than non LGBT’s.
For any demographic group most of the violence comes from within. All domestic/party/drug/drunk nonsense from people living the Jerry Springer lifestyle.
+1. It isn’t MAGA rednecks hunting down “trans” peeps, it’s them getting stupid prizes for playing stupid games with stupid people.
Unless they’re trying to molest my kid. Then that’s another story altogether.
I’ve researched this before. The propagandists often conflate “tranz women” prostitutes with “tranz” or “LGBTQ” people in general. Being a “tranz woman” prostitute is risky business. They’re usually involved in other risky behaviors as well such as illicit d-r-u-g use.
The propagandists do the same thing with “migrants” (euphemism for illegal immigrant/alien). They conflate illegals with legal immigrants in order to paint a rosy picture for illegals.
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In 2022, 48.2% of lesbian women reported violence against them in the forms of physical violence, stalking (including with violent assault), or rape by their partners (either by their partner only or with the involvement of male(s) or female(s) bought in by the partner —- two thirds were exclusively the partner female perpetrator, one third was the partner female perpetrator with involvement of one or more males or females perpetrator bought in my the female partner perpetrator).
In 2022, 66% of ‘transgender’ (term as used here also includes those who have either partially or fully transitioned) individuals reported experiencing violence against them in the forms of physical violence, stalking (including with violent assault), or rape, with their ‘partner’ (the term ‘partner’ includes real biological male or female and ‘transgender’) being the perpetrator. (two thirds of perpetrators were exclusively the ‘partner’, one third of perpetrators was the ‘partner’ with involvement of one or more others either real biological male or female or ‘transgender’).
In 2022, 38% of gay and bisexual males reported experiencing violence against them in the forms of physical violence, stalking (including with violent assault), or rape, with their ‘partner’ being the perpetrator. (for perpetrator(s): 3/4 of those the ‘partner’ exclusively, one quarter of those were the ‘partner’ with others bought in that were either real biological male or transgender, with, in the case of bisexual sometimes real biological females were bought in by the ‘partner’)
In 2022, 63% of bisexual females reported experiencing violence against them in the forms of physical violence, stalking (including with violent assault), or rape, with their ‘partner’ being the perpetrator. (for perpetrator(s): 80% of these was the ‘partner’ exclusively, and 20% with others bought in by the ‘partner’ that were biological male or female bisexuals or a mixture of ‘transgender’, lesbian, or straight males and females).
In 2022, (overall, for all violent crimes including sexually based offenses) 69% of violent criminals were either gay or bisexual or expressed ‘gender identity’ issues.
In 2023, all of the above 2022 percentages increased by 8%.
In 2024, all of the above increased percentages in 2023 increased by 10%
An 18% increase above the 2022 percentages over the years 2023 and 2024.
In 2022, as in past years the main ‘environments’ in which members of the LGBTQ community experienced violence involved prostitution, [LGBTQ demographic ‘members/participants’] drugs and/or risky sex practices, and [LGBTQ demographic ‘members’] partner-perpetrator violence – all of which accounted for more violence against members of the LGBTQ community than all other sources combined. In 2023 and 2024 the same trend continued.
And now in 2025, by 1 June, the same trend of violence ‘environment’ as above continues with an overall 11% increase but with more minors involved. From 1 June 2024 to 1 June 2025 there was an 12% increase in children (age 12 – 17) actively participating in the LGBTQ ‘community’ that were victims of LGBTQ-on-LGBTQ violence. For these minors, this is an increase of 4% over 1 June 2023 – 31 May 2024 and represents a 25% increase-rate for violence-victimization of these children by adult members of the LGBTQ demographic.
In 2024 there were, daily nation wide, ~350 violent attacks by members of the LGBTQ demographic upon non-LGBTQ victims.
That’s “Almost” a fine Report.
But you, yourself turned it into garbage.
As I read through your comment I realized that you gave us no citation of any source, from which your “claimed facts” came.
Not only must people cite sources, they must cite credible and authoritative sources.
If you don’t do this, your claims must be judged BS, as if you had what you considered the facts, why wouldn’t cite the siurce.
Come back with the sources for your claims, and learn to do so.
Presumably you are not one of those Harvard Graduates spewing utter tripe, so try harder to show that.
myner, is dat you? Cite your sources was his battle cry.
I’ve given the citations before when I posted it previously. This is the shorter version as there is a lot more. Its an aggregate of data from FBI, NCVS, NIH, databases, databases from various states, NCMEC, RAINN, Human Rights Campaign, and each source only gives a little slice of the overall picture in their own context. I just aggregated it all together to show the overall picture.
My wife is a free lance journalist and professional researcher. She has various contracts, some with federal and state governments for various contracts, its gets her access to this stuff the public doesn’t see in the media.
Learn not to be an asshole, and cite your authority for being a critic of something you don’t understand Miner49er.
If I used a firearm to “enforce my dignity” I’d be thrown in prison. They’re for protecting yourself from severe bodily harm or death, not from feeling insulted.
“If I used a firearm to “enforce my dignity” I’d be thrown in prison. They’re for protecting yourself from severe bodily harm or death, not from feeling insulted.”
I just started to post something along those lines.
It points out one of the many differences in the trans mindset. They think them ‘feeling insulted’ is the same as ‘violence perpetrated’ against them and it isn’t. This is one of the many reasons you should just steer clear of trans people, their thought processes are mostly ‘unstable self-feeding emotion and self-generated confirmation bias’ based and not firmly grounded in logic or fact or reality orientated all the time.
Firstly, you cannot credibly claim that all Trans people mistake speech for violence…
2ndly, some speech inciting imminent violence can well be part and parcel of violent acts…
3rdly, people from every conceivable group, including blue Venutians, are claiming that speech is violence, so why single out transexuals???
You’re letting bias get the best of you, or is it the worst of you?
Finally, the AI censor here advising that one’s post came too quickly after a previous post, is nonsensical, and tells me that shooting news weekly is not a sensible group
“Firstly, you cannot credibly claim that all Trans people mistake speech for violence…”
First, I did not say they mistook speech for violence. I said “They think them ‘feeling insulted’ is the same as ‘violence perpetrated’ against them …”
“2ndly, some speech inciting imminent violence can well be part and parcel of violent acts…”
I never said anything like that, that was not the subject. The subject context was ‘feeling insulted’ not “speech inciting imminent violence”.
“3rdly, people from every conceivable group, including blue Venutians, are claiming that speech is violence, so why single out transexuals???”
The subject was ‘trans’ not “every conceivable group, including blue Venutians”. But when we get around to “every conceivable group, including blue Venutians” I might comment on those too.
Miner49er, Stop using your ‘unstable self-feeding emotion and self-generated confirmation bias’ and learn what context means.
Oh and the reason I used ‘trans’ as the example for the point was they are the most ‘vocal’ about “… ‘feeling insulted’ is the same as ‘violence perpetrated’ against them …”
From the article:
Her biggest fear is that the Trump administration will place tran[z]gender people under government-sanctioned control, something akin to WWII-era internment camps.
There you go. I have seen this repeated ad nauseam since the election. (We’ve even seen it posted on referenced articles here at SNW.) I wonder if this thought was seeded by Democrat or Intel operatives.
My lifelong Democrat father just said that he’s more of an independent now. I’m pretty sure it’s due to tranz fatigue. Please keep up the insanity; everyone is sick of it.
The ‘trans’ concentration camp thing was one of the lies the left wing liberals used to get these people riled up enough to start killing their MAGA boogeyman. Even democrat congress members tried to fan that into a ‘shooting’ ‘civil war’.
Its a lie. No one is coming to round them up and put them in camps.
These gullible people believing that lie and regurgitating it like its gospel …. it serves to illustrate the point I made above with “their thought processes are mostly ‘unstable self-feeding emotion and self-generated confirmation bias’ based and not firmly grounded in logic or fact or reality orientated all the time.”