Significant acts of violence against LGBT people

This is a list of notable incidents of homophobic violence, e.g. attacks on victims thought by the attacker to be lesbian or gay and attacked for homophobic motives.

See list of unlawfully killed transgender people for homicides of transgender people.

Australia

Brazil

Canada

Chile

Croatia

France

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Jamaica

Martinique

Mexico

New Zealand

Norway

Portugal

Serbia

Sierra Leone

South Africa

Spain

St. Maarten

Turkey

Uganda

United Kingdom

England and Wales

London gay pub bombing in 1999 killed three and injured 70

Scotland

In 2009, the Scottish parliament unanimously passed legislation that means that crimes motivated by hatred of gay or disabled people will now be considered as 'aggravated offences'.[101]

United States

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