Was Live Thu, July 18, 2024 | 11am PST
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Guest Speakers
- Becky Monroe, Deputy Director of Strategic Initiatives and External Affairs, The Civil Rights Department
- Toni Newman, Black Leadership Council, Director of The Coalition for Justice and Equality Across Movements, Director of The Center to End the Epidemic
- Andy Ruiz, Transgender Health Clinic at St. John’s Community Health, LA
- Aries Rivers Yumul, Coordinator LGBTQ+ District Resource and Support, Santa Clara County Office of Education
Event Overview
Reported hate crimes against LGBTQ+ communities continue to rise “at alarming rates” according to Attorney General Rob Bonta, despite overall reported hate crimes decreasing by 7.1% in 2023 versus 2022. Data reported to DOJ in 2023 shows that between 2022 and 2023, there were 405 reported hate crime events motivated by sexual orientation bias (an increase of 3.6% from the previous year) and 76 hate crime events motivated by anti-transgender or anti-gender-nonconforming bias (an increase of 7.04% from the previous year).
Representatives from the California Civil Rights Department, community-based organizations that partner with the state’s first-ever multilingual hotline CA vs Hate, and LGBTQ+ advocates will discuss this rise, including how people may have different experiences of hate and discrimination depending on their race, age, class, gender, sexuality, and more. In addition, a recent LA Times/NORC poll on LGBTQ+ communities shows that while most Americans accept same-sex marriage, same sex couples raising children, and laws to protect queer people from job discrimination, their approval drops off for trans and nonbinary people of all ages.
The speakers will share their perspectives on these issues and on increasing rates of hate in California and on a national level. They will also discuss the latest data from the first year of CA vs Hate, demonstrating how the LGBTQ+ community has helped shape the hotline and has been supported by the new reporting hotline and the services provided via the care coordination network.
