Domtic vlence occurred at 'more than twice' the rate 'lbian or gay' relatnships.
Contents:
MANY GAY MEN SUFFER DOMTIC ABE: STUDY
The rate of domtic vlence and statistics about abe wh the LGBTQ muny are difficult to terme bee of the high number of unreported s. However, the 2010 Natnal Intimate Partner Vlence and Sexual Vlence Survey found that 44% of lbian women, 61% of bisexual women, 26% of gay men, and 37% of bisexual men experience domtic vlence by an timate partner at some pot their liv.1 One study shows that 30-50% of all transgenr people experienced timate partner vlence their lifetim.2 * gay domestic abuse rate *
However, people who are lbian, gay and bisexual have an equal or higher prevalence of experiencg timate partner vlence, sexual vlence and stalkg as pared to heterosexuals. 26% percent of gay men and 37% of bisexual men – pared to 29% of heterosexual men – experienced rape, physil vlence, and/or stalkg by an timate partner at some pot their lifetime.
"There are external strsors, like discrimatn and vlence agast gays, and there are ternal strsors, such as ternalised negative attus about homosexualy. "Sometim homosexual dividuals project their negative beliefs and feelgs about themselv on to their partner, " he says.
"This experience prompted Rogers to set up his own Boston-based anisatn to provi help, tn and advocy for members of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) muny who are facg domtic when he first started there was a feelg the same-sex muny that speakg out about domtic abe was "airg our dirty lndry". "Across town, The Network La Red - an anisatn that began workg wh abed lbians, but now clus gay, bisexual, and transgenr muni - was experiencg the same problem.
* gay domestic abuse rate *
Rogers says thgs started to improve quickly when, 2004, Massachetts beme the first state to make possible for gay men and women to marry. "It had a ripplg effect through multiple different stutns - crimal jtice, the urts, police and healthre, " he the 1990s, police would often fail to take domtic abe a gay male relatnship serly. "Boston has a large gay and lbian populatn and we don't treat people any differently.
Campaigners say awarens of the problem of vlence gay relatnships will be helped by last year's rethorisatn of the feral Vlence agast Women Act which now clus a provisn for means any fundg that through the act - even stat that do not regnise civil partnerships or gay marriage - now has to go to everyone, regardls of their sexual orientatn or genr inty. "So far 's liberal stat like Massachetts that have done most to support gay victims of domtic vlence, but the signs are that the ti may be slowly begng to change across the untry. Studi show that gay men and bisexual women are more likely to experience severe physil vlence than their straight unterparts, cludg beg beaten, burned or choked.