Physical gay bashings sometimes involve extreme violence or murder; the perpetrators’s actions being based on their perceptions or assumptions of the victim's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
LGBTQ students may try to pass as heterosexual to escape the bullying, leading to further stress and isolation from available supports.
[1] This violence may be enacted by the state, as in laws prescribing punishment for homosexual acts, or by individuals.
Influencing factors may be cultural, religious, or political mores and biases.
[2] Bullying of LGBTQ people, particularly LGBTQ youth, involves intentional actions toward the victim, repeated negative actions by one or more people against another person, and an imbalance of physical or psychological power.