SOS Homophobia collected 1,771 testimonies of LGBTIphobia last year (insult, harassment, threat, discrimination, physical attack…) via its listening and support systems for victims (telephone line, chat, email), indicates its annual report published Monday May 11, 2026. These figures are on the rise. compared to the 1,571 testimonies received in 2024, “are obviously not exhaustive†taking into account the people concerned who “Keep their suffering silent out of fear or resignation”underlines the association as May 17 approaches, the international day against homophobia, transphobia and biphobia.
In detail, the testimonies collected primarily concern acts suffered in public places (13%), online (11%) and within family and close friends (10%). All contexts combined, rejection (42%), insults (36%) and harassment (17%) are the main vectors of these LGBTphobic manifestations. While the association has published this report every year since 1997, in 2026 it points to a “A climate of more and more anxiety and despair”.
“On est sur une ligne de crête”
“Laws that protect LGBT+ people and condemn homophobia and transphobia exist but there is a lack of political will for their implementation”notes the president of SOS Homophobia, Julia Torlet. She also deplores a “Lack of means”.
“We are on a crest line, we know that everything could change in a year with the presidential election, in one direction or the other: either the public authorities act for an effective implementation of the legislative arsenal or, conversely, we continue on the slippery slope, towards more and more violence and less and less life together »she adds.
