“…A study based in Brazil analysed the comments made on news posts on Facebook for hate speech against the LGBT population. A thematic analysis of these comments revealed 9 categories of hate speech that included victimization (heterosexuals being victims and laws for LGBT population being a privilege), pathologisation (where queerness is portrayed as an illness or anomaly), sickened by the existence of or upset by the attitudes of LGBT people, discrediting the journalistic content, media outlet or writer of the news (to downplay the newsworthiness of LGBT issues), insults or offense against human dignity (which attack an LGBT individuals dignity), imposing morality and personal religious beliefs (portraying LGBT community as one composed of sinners), biological approach (questioning the naturalness of queerness), supposed influence of behaviour and thinking of children and adolescents (implying that children who observe homosexuals will become homosexuals), and opinions aided by quoting authority (quoting supposed experts to devalue the legitimacy of queerness) (Silva & Silva, 2021). In a European study based in Cyprus, news articles concerning the LGBT community with the most number of associated comments were collected, and the comments were analysed.…”