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The US State Department warns of the threat of international terrorism to the LGBT community

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The US State Department issued a global security alert on Friday, saying it was aware of the increased potential for violence against LGBTQ+ people and events inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.

“Due to the possibility of terrorist attacks, demonstrations, or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the State Department advises U.S. citizens abroad to exercise increased caution,” the department said in a statement.

The warning comes two weeks before the start of LGBTQ+ Pride Month in the United States.

Stigma and discrimination

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that people in the LGBTQI+ community “continue to face insidious forms of stigma and discrimination.”

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press conference at the end of the G7 foreign ministers meeting on the Italian island of Capri on April 19, 2024. (Source: REUTERS/CIRO DE LUCA)

He continued: “Even as more countries make significant progress towards full equality, LGBTQI+ people continue to be sentenced to death for daring to express their sexual orientation or gender identity, subjected to forced conversion “therapies” and Subjected to “normalization” operations and thereby discriminated against. “Use of health services, restriction of the exercise of fundamental freedoms and rejection of the dignity of a same-sex partnership and the realization of the family.”

These comments were made to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia.

Blinken concluded his statement by saying: “We will continue to advocate for the rights of LGBTQI+ people, not only because we have a moral imperative to do so, but because it helps strengthen democracy, strengthen national security and to promote global health and economic development.”

According to an October 2023 annual FBI report tracking hate crimes in the United States in 2022, 1,947 incidents related to an alleged victim’s sexual orientation were recorded in 2022, up from 1,711 in 2021, and 469 related to the Gender identity of an alleged victim. 353 the year before. The gender identity category included 338 cases specifically targeting transgender people and 131 cases targeting someone gender non-conforming.



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