those deaths were homicides. That same year, over half of LGBT+ victims were identified as gay.
In 2022, the number of violent deaths of LGBT+ people in Brazil decreased in comparison to the previous year, totaling 273 occurrences. In 2021, approximately seven out of ten of Number of violent deaths of LGBT+ people in Brazil from 2007 to 2022
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Observatório de Mortes e Violências contra LGBTI+ no Brasil, Number of violent deaths of LGBT+ people in Brazil from 2007 to 2022 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/799411/lgbt-people-violent-deaths-brazil/ (last visited May 11, 2024)
Number of violent deaths of LGBT+ people in Brazil from 2007 to 2022 [Graph], Observatório de Mortes e Violências contra LGBTI+ no Brasil, March 24, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/799411/lgbt-people-violent-deaths-brazil/