GLAAD RESPONDS TO 2024 FBI HATE CRIME STATISTICS DOCUMENTING OVER 2,400 ANTI-LGBTQ HATE CRIME INCIDENTS

LGBTQ people were the third-most targeted group in 2024, falling just behind hate crimes motivated by race/ethnicity and religion.

*Correction: A previous version of this press release incorrectly stated that anti-LGBTQ hate crimes had increased between 2023 and 2024, due to an error in calculations. All numbers have been updated to reflect the correct statistics.

(New York, NY – August 13, 2025) – GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is responding to the FBI’s newly-released 2024 Hate Crime Statistics Report showing over 2,400 single-bias hate crime incidents motivated by sexual orientation and gender identity.

In 2024, the FBI tracked 2,413 single-bias anti-LGBTQ hate crime incidents in the US, including 1,950 targeting victims over their sexual orientation and 463 targeting victims over their gender identity. In 2023, the FBI tracked 2,569 single-bias anti-LGBTQ hate crime incidents, including 2,077 targeting victims over their sexual orientation and 492 targeting victims over their gender identity.

These numbers reflect a reality familiar to LGBTQ Americans and track with GLAAD’s ALERT Desk findings, which tracked 932 anti-LGBTQ incidents occurring across the US last year. This is the equivalent of 2.5 incidents every day. Over 50% of all incidents were specifically targeting transgender and gender non-conforming people, corresponding with the rise in anti-trans rhetoric and policy nationally.

The FBI’s latest hate crime statistics hit their second-largest overall total since Congress mandated hate crime data collection in 1990. Black Americans and Jewish Americans were most frequently targeted, followed by LGBTQ Americans. Read more from GLAAD’s ongoing series on the intersectional nature of hate: Anti-LGBTQ Incidents Targeting Religious Institutions; Anti-LGBTQ & Anti-AANHPI Hate

The FBI follows strict standards for what it considers to be a hate crime under their Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program guidelines. Certain types of hateful incidents, like flyering campaigns by hate groups or online harassment & doxxing, may not meet the UCR’s hate crime definitions. The UCR Program also only includes incidents actually reported to law enforcement. LGBTQ people, as well as others in marginalized groups, have historically been hesitant to report hate crimes to law enforcement, especially due to concerns around forced outing, retaliation, harassment, and police brutality.

Sarah Moore, who leads GLAAD’s ALERT Desk, issued the following statement:

“The thousands of reported anti-LGBTQ hate crime incidents is appalling and must lead to immediate action. We demand the right to live and love, safely and freely. Not just for the sake of LGBTQ Americans, but so that all marginalized communities can prosper, from Black and Brown Americans, to Muslim, Jewish, and Sikh people of faith, to the disabled community and immigrants, and to the many others targeted by extremists in the US.

FBI hate crime statistics are vital to understand how the federal government tracks and combats bias-motivated crimes – but these numbers will never tell the full story. We must continue to hear and uplift the voices of local LGBTQ leaders and our community partners to mitigate violence against all communities. Together, we can push back on hate for good.”

If you have witnessed or experienced an anti-LGBTQ hate crime, you can report it to GLAAD’s ALERT Desk here.