The LGBTQ advocacy group GLAAD on Monday said it tracked nearly 1,000 incidents over the last year specifically targeting LGBTQ people in the U.S., a statistic the group said was worrying but that also represented a more than 20 percent decline over the previous year.

Between May 1, 2024, and May 1, 2025, GLAAD’s ALERT Desk, an online tracker of anti-LGBTQ extremism in the U.S., recorded 932 anti-LGBTQ incidents in 49 states and Washington, D.C., the equivalent of 2.5 incidents each day. Violent attacks over the past year have resulted in 84 injuries and 10 deaths, the group said Monday.

“We know that there is this massive amount of hate and violence that LGBTQ people in the U.S. are experiencing on a daily basis, and we know that this is kind of different, sort of, depending on the different activities that people are engaging in or the different........

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