LGBT citizens are no strangers to violence and abuse directed toward them due to their orientation. Whether the violence comes from family, strangers, or even the police, the targets of many attacks, from something as small as online harassment to something as drastic as the Pulse nightclub shootings, are LGBT people, especially people who are black, Asian, or Latinx (known colloquially as POC). In a 2016 survey of survivors from reported anti-LGBT attacks, more than 61 percent identified as POC and, though black survivors demonstrated a 2.8 times higher likelihood to “experience excessive force from police than survivors who did not identify as black”, the overall surviving ethnic group to experience more harassment by the harassers were
