Sarah Kate Ellis, President, GLAAD:

Yes, it's actually really shocking what's happening in our culture in our world today.

And I think it really is simple. And it boils down to the politicization of our community. Really, what we're seeing is that politicians are filling the airwaves with anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, and it's getting picked up on social media.

And then it's turning on — from online to offline in real life into hate and violence. And so, even though it is such a small — and this is exactly what you pointed out — this is a very tiny group of people who are anti-LGBTQ. The vast majority of Americans are allies or are LGBTQ.

And so — but they're making a lot of noise, and they're super violent. And I just want to point out, not only are they now violent toward our community, which we're kind of used to, sadly, as a community. They're violent toward our allies. They're violent toward corporations, if you remember back to Pride Month, when Bud Light and Target were threatened with violence from these anti-LGBTQ folks.

So they have really heated up and turned up the volume on violence against our community and our allies.

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