Violence against homosexuals is pretty common in South and Central America - which is where most of recent American immigrants are from. Here's an example from CNN[1]
"Latin America offers a contradictory narrative: The region has the highest rates of violence against the LGBT community, according to research done by Transgender Europe, a non-governmental organization, but it also has some of the most progressive laws for LGBT equality and protection."
It seems like a pretty intuitive step to me to go from "Highest rate of hate crimes" to "more likely to be homophobic".
Perhaps, but it also seems intuitive to me that people who choose to (/ have the opportunity to) leave a country (i.e. immigrants) may not be representative of that country as a whole.
"Latin America offers a contradictory narrative: The region has the highest rates of violence against the LGBT community, according to research done by Transgender Europe, a non-governmental organization, but it also has some of the most progressive laws for LGBT equality and protection."
It seems like a pretty intuitive step to me to go from "Highest rate of hate crimes" to "more likely to be homophobic".
1 - https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/americas/lgbt-rights-in-the-a...