Similarly, the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy of UCLA wrote in a 2015 report that in a survey of LGBT people and people living with HIV, 73% of respondents said they had face-to-face contact with the police in the past five years, Of those respondents, 21% reported encountering “hostile attitudes” from officers, including verbal assaults, sexual harassment and physical assault.
The events were created to honor, educate and uplift our community by celebrating our contributions to Popular culture in the world. A 2012 analysis by the National Inmate Survey, found that lesbian, gay, or bisexual people were incarcerated at a rate of 1,882 per 100,000, or three times higher than the heterosexual U.S. The 25th Annual NYC Black Pride celebration is an annual five day multicultural event targeting the Black and Latino Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community.
LGBTQ people are also overrepresented in rates of incarceration and prison victimization, the think tank added. However, even with the advances that the movement has made, the Urban Institute, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, said in a report in June 2020 that gays are still “disproportionately harmed” by the criminal justice system, along with Blacks and immigrants. The f irst gay pride parade took place in June 1970, one year after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan led to rioting – an event generally considered one of the most pivotal moments of the gay rights movement.
