Two-thirds of Europe's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public, and a quarter have been victims of physical or verbal attacks, a European Union report says.
"Fear, isolation and discrimination are everyday phenomena for the LGBT community in Europe," wrote Morten Kjaerum, director of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, in the report released for the International Day Against Homophobia.
The online survey questioned about 93,000 people in the EU's 27 member states plus Croatia, which is to join the bloc in July.
Just more than a quarter (26 per cent) of respondents said they had been physically or verbally assaulted during the past five years.