In a 2011 analysis of FBI hate-crime statistics, the Southern Poverty Law Center found that “LGBT people are more than twice as likely to be the target of a violent hate-crime than Jews or black people,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the center. It is an extraordinary example of an extremely common kind of violence in the United States: hate-motivated attacks on LGBT people. This is an unprecedented shooting attack in scale and violence, but not in kind. to Detroit to Los Angeles, are hosting celebrations and parades. He carried out his attack during Pride month, on a weekend when cities across the country, from Washington, D.C. The Search for America’s Atlantis Ross Andersen
