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INTIMATE PARTNER VLENCE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS, TERSEX AND QUEER MUNI
People who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex or queer (LGBTIQ) experience timate partner vlence at siar rat as those who intify as heterosexual. Homophobia, transphobia and heterosexism affect the experience of, and rpons to, timate partner vlence LGBTIQ populatns. Lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, tersex and queer (LGBTIQ) muniThe LGBTIQ acronym is ed to refer to people who are om sexually or genr diverse muni and who may intify as gay, lbian, bisexual, trans, tersex or queer.
A smaller study of 390 LGBTIQ rponnts Victoria, also nducted by ARCHS (Leonard et al., 2008) found that that jt unr a third had been volved a same-sex relatnship where they were subject to abe by their partner:78% of the abe was psychologil and 58% volved physil abe;lbian women were more likely than gay men to report havg been an abive same-sex relatnship (41% and 28% rpectively); and26% of rponnts had experienced sexual asslt wh a same-sex relatnship (Leonard et al., 2008) rearch, addn to ternatnal data (e. This sectn scrib the particular experience of timate partner vlence for LGBTIQ people and how heterosexism, heteronormativy and homo/bi/transphobia (see Box 1 for fns) shape that experience (Albright & Alntra-Thompson, (n. ); Calton et al., 2015) 1: TermologyHomophobia and biphobia refer to negative beliefs, prejudic and stereotyp about people who are not heterosexual (Lorenzetti et al., 2015).
Heterosexism provis the "social backdrop" for homophobic, biphobic and transphobic prejudic, vlence and discrimatn (Fileborn, 2012). Explaed:This amework suggts that homophobia and transphobia are both discrete forms of discrimatn and also part of a sgular, ordated system for punishg those who different ways pose a threat to heterosexist privilege and thory. Intimate partner vlence LGBTIQ relatnships occurs wh a "stctural environment" of heterosexism, heteronormativy and homo/bi/transphobia affectg LGBTIQ people across the lifpan (Lorenzetti et al., p.