More than 100 Members of the LGBT+ Community Murdered In Mexico In 2019
It has been estimated than at least 117 lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people were murdered in Mexico in 2019. LGBT+ rights organisation Letra S published a report stating that the murder figures of LGBT people increased by 27 percent since 2018. In the first months of 2020, 26 LGBT people were killed, with 20 of them being trans, 2 of the victims were lesbians and four were gay men.
The reports also revealed that in the past five years 441 members of the LGBT community have been murdered in Mexico.
“In the vast majority of cases, the sexual orientation and gender identity of the victim had something to do with the killings", Letra S director Alejandro Brito said in an interview.
“They are trying to live their lives in the most open and normal way possible and this may awaken in certain sectors with a marked machismo, or fundamentalist sectors, or refusal to express sexual and gender diversity publicly,” Brito continued.
As the ‘Daily Mail’ reports, Brito stated that some of the murders can be linked to criminals who persecute homosexual men and other suspects who kill transgender sex workers. He added that innocent victims have been caught in the middle of disputes between business owners preyed on by criminal organisations.
“We have also seen the number of LGBT people who are victims of organized crime grow, either because they work, for example, in LGBT bars and criminals retaliate because they do not pay [extortion fees), they come and massacre [them], he said.
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