This is just part of the social war getting to critical mass. Gays will have to resort to killing people. They will have to accept being killed just as well.
Gays have been getting killed for decades. I guess you’ve forgotten Matthew Shepard. When I was a teenager, punks used to go to public parks and “roll queers”, beating and robbing them, because they knew the gays couldn’t and wouldn’t report the crimes.
History of violence against LGBT people in the United States - Wikipedia