The survey, of more than 1,500 young people, found that three in five of those from the LGBTQ+ community had experienced hateful content online that had made them upset.
In comparison 41 per cent of heterosexual young people said they had experienced such content.
Young LGBTQ+ people are also more likely than their heterosexual peers to experience other forms of negative content online that upsets them.
More than half had experienced negative sexual content, compared to around a third of heterosexual young people.
Four in ten LGBTQ+ young people have been asked to share inappropriate sexual images, compared to a quarter of their heterosexual peers.
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