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White extremist groups go after LGBTQ+ community during Pride Month | CNN
CNN features ACLED’s factsheet highlighting anti-LGBT+ mobilization rise during Pride Month.
Source: CNN | 20 June 2022
In the midst of Pride Month, CNN features ACLED’s factsheet — ‘Anti-LGBT+ Mobilization on the Rise in the United States’ — commentary from ACLED’s Head of Communications, Sam Jones, specifically citing ACLED data that shows the anti-LGBT+ mobilization increased by over four times from 2020 to 2021, and halfway through 2022, incidents of political violence targeting the LBGT+ community already surpass the total number in 2021.
