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Preventing Violence in the LGBT Community

When it comes to violence within the LGBT community, there are many ways to help prevent the harm and bullying. Because of the bullying within the LGBT community, "many colleges and universities have protocols to serve victims of these forms of violence." Planning committees and groups that can help educate the peers of the LGBT community is a way to help prevent the violence. The most frequent requests for assistance respondents reported receiving from LGBT were for counseling, safe housing, legal assistance, and assistance navigating the medical system recent years an increasing number of campuses have started prevention strategies to address sexual and relationship violence. In recent years an increasing number of campuses have adopted bystander prevention strategies to address sexual and relationship violence. The history of violence against LGBT people in the United States is made up of assaults on gay men, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender individuals The violence that is brought on to the community is serious and dangerous considering how long the violence and hate crimes have been going on. There has been over thousands attacks all of the world against the LGBT community, and they are still happening today. Even after the legalization of same-sex relations in states of the United States, LGBT persons have continued to be targeted by attacks - both violent and non-violent - against themselves by individuals who claim any degree of emotional or religious motivation for their crimes. Not only are others hurting people in the LGBT community, but people in the LGBT communities and hurting themselves. There has been over dozens of cases involving suicide because of being bullied for their sexual orientation or gender expression. Discrimination among young teens has caused them to be more depressive and have an elevated risk for self harm, or suicidal thoughts. Seattle-area opinion columnist and rights activist Dan Savage participated with his husband in the making of a video which encouraged children and teenagers to resist and overcome peer bullying. By helping prevent violence within the community, it will be a safer and more tolerable environment for everyone.