The history of violence against LGBT people in the United States is made up of assaults on gay men, lesbians, bisexual, and transgender individuals ( LGBT), legal responses to such violence, and hate crime statistics in the United States of America. A memorial in May 2013 where Mark Carson, a 32-year-old black gay man, was shot to death by another man who trailed and taunted him and a friend as they walked down the street in New York City's Greenwich Village
