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* Nearly 1 in 5 hate crimes are anti-LGBTQ+

* 20 - 40% of homeless youth are LGBTQ+.

* LGB youth seriously contemplate suicide at almost three times the rate of heterosexual youth.

* LGB youth are almost five times as likely to have attempted suicide compared to heterosexual youth.

* In a national study, 40% of transgender adults reported having made a suicide attempt. 92% of these individuals reported having attempted suicide before the age of 25.

* Each episode of LGBT victimization, such as physical or verbal harassment or abuse, increases the likelihood of self-harming behavior by 2.5 times on average.

* One in five lesbian and bisexual women have deliberately harmed themselves in the last year, compared to 0.4 percent of the general population.

* 47% of trans people do not use public social leisure facilities for fear of discriminatory treatment.

* 37% of trans people are excluded from family events and have family members who no longer speak to them because they have transitioned.

* Almost all (99 percent) gay young people hear the phrases 'that's so gay' or 'you're so gay' in school and 96 percent of gay pupils hear homophobic language such as 'poof' or 'lezza'.

* 59 percent of trans youth said they had deliberately hurt themselves, compared with 8.9 percent of all 16- to 24-year-olds.

* Sex with someone of the same sex is illegal in 73 countries and punishable by death in ten. 

* That means 40 percent of the world's population lives in countries where gay, lesbian and bisexual people can be imprisoned, just for being themselves.

* Over 400 million people live under laws that punish same-sex sex with the death penalty.

* Between 2008 and 2014, there were 1,612 trans people were murdered across 62 countries - equivalent to a killing every two days.

Sources:

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/preventing-suicide/facts-about-suicide/

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/nearly-1-5-hate-crimes-motivated-anti-lgbtq-bias-fbi-n1080891

http://religiousinstitute.org/resources/fact-sheet-lgbt-youth/

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/

https://thedehumanizationoflgbt.weebly.com/lgbt-facts.html