Published today, the @ILGAEurope #AnnualReview2023 finds that pervasive hate speech across Europe has led to the most violent year for LGBTI people in over decade. Find out more and download your own copy at https://ilga-europe.org/report/annual-review-2023/

“Important to stress that this phenomenon of increase hate and violence is not only in a few ‘bad’ countries; we cannot pin this phenomenon to a certain region in Europe, along the traditional East West Divide. It is across the board.” launching the #AnnualReview2023
“The report, amongst too many murders reported across the region, lists two terrorist attacks, outside a gay bar in Oslo last June, where 2 people were killed and more than 20 wounded and last October in Bratislava, killing two young men and leaving a woman wounded.” - @khugendubel

“Specific attention needs to be given to the high number of trans people being killed, especially trans women, which must be seen in the extreme rise in transphobic hate we have seen over the last years in many countries, especially countries working on reforming trans rights.”

"From the very first moment of our lives, we are given the message that we are wrong, that we shouldn’t be who we are, and that is the beginning of the violence", @DanijelKalezic, Co-Director of @lgbtiera, at the launch of our #AnnualReview2023

"We saw in Belgrade during #EuroPride, the most visible example of how states are doing acts of violence towards us. We are experiencing violence in every way, but I am most concerned by hate speech from hate speech from politicians and religious leaders" @DanijelKalezic

“The rise in violence is goes together with the shrinking space for civil society, which is very closely linked to the amount of disinformation we see. These narratives go beyond the LGBTI community, they are anti-democratic and anti-human rights.” @StellaRonner, @eu_eeas

“As much as we call out violence, we need to counteract it at the start, and we realise this is not an easy task. We need to be addressing hateful narratives the minute they emerge.” @EvelyneParadis, Executive Director, @ILGAEurope, launching our #AnnualReview2023

“The pressure that we are experiencing is at first a struggle to survive, after almost a decade of not worrying about it. We have a huge decrease of EU funding to LGBTI orgs, and decrease of other international donors, and complete decrease of national funds.” @DanijelKalezic

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