Demonstrators protest for transgender rights and hold a candlelight vigil to remember transgender friends lost to murder and suicide (Credit: Getty/Scott Olson) Donald Trump’s first year as president was also set a deadly mark for LGBTQ Americans according to a report by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Project (NCAVP) released Monday. The organization says that it found “the highest number of anti-LGBTQ homicides in our 20-year history of tracking this information,” reporting a total of 52 such murders in 2017 — effectively one a week.