Laramie Research
I found this article very interesting. It has to do with the number of hate crimes against the LGBT community. On 2011 there were 30 hate crimes against gays, lesbians and transgender. It alwso says that a little more then half of the survivors report their attacks, basically, it means the number of hate crimes could be a lot higher then 30, they just haven't been reported.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/02/anti-gay-hate-crimes-murders-national-coalition-of-anti-violence-programs_n_1564885.html
I also found an article on the statistics of suicide rates among LGBT youth. The statistics are pretty disturbing. 36.5% of lgbt youth have attempted suicide. I know it doesn't directly connect ot eh Matt Shepherd incident, but a lot of these children feel the hate of their peers towards who they are. It affects them very much.
http://www.youthprideri.org/Resources/Statistics/tabid/227/Default.aspx
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