It Was My Flt—Why Gay Male Victims of Domtic Vlence Often Dismiss It - #GAYNRD

Contents:

• IT WAS MY FLT—WHY GAY MALE VICTIMS OF DOMTIC VLENCE OFTEN DISMISS IT
• GAY MEN AND TIMATE PARTNER VLENCE: A GENR ANALYSIS
• EXPLORG VLENCE AND ABE GAY MALE RELATNSHIPS
• INTIMATE PARTNER VLENCE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS, TERSEX AND QUEER MUNI

IT WAS MY FLT—WHY GAY MALE VICTIMS OF DOMTIC VLENCE OFTEN DISMISS IT

"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".

GAY MEN AND TIMATE PARTNER VLENCE: A GENR ANALYSIS

"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. 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. LGBT Natnal Help Center: Youth Hotle 1-800-246-PRIDE (7743); LGBT Natnal Hotle 1-888-843-4564; Sage LGBT Elr Hotle 1-888-234-7243; or Onle Chat at Gay Men’s Domtic Vlence Project Hotle: 1-800-832-1901. The rults of this explic, appropriate sex-saturated culture and tn have been startlg: there have never been more children claimg to be transgenr, gay, lbian and bisexual, nor have we ever seen such high levels of sexual asslts by mors.

EXPLORG VLENCE AND ABE GAY MALE RELATNSHIPS

It’s more mon than we thk and yet remas one of the most stigmatized experienc for gay men: domtic abe.

”Photo by Alt Ferreira on least 1 5 gay men experience domtic abe although that number is almost surely much higher. A 2003 study published the Journal of Men’s Studi which exam the reasons that gay men stay relatnships which they are beg abed, bas much of s argument on the back of femist rearch examg why women stay and as such, offers a femist analysis of domtic vlence applied to gay male may be choate to many men bee they are men and socialized as such, may ntribute to the reason many men rema nial the first rearch suggts that LGBT folks experience higher cince of abe. The numbers when you foc on gay men alone are startlg:26% of gay men and 37.

INTIMATE PARTNER VLENCE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS, TERSEX AND QUEER MUNI

3% of bisexual men have experienced rape, physil vlence, and/or stalkg by an timate partner their lifetime, parison to 29% of heterosexual a study of male same sex relatnships, only 26% of men lled the police for assistance after experiencg near-lethal the Gay Men’s Pri flag.