Gay Men’s Domtic Vlence Project | VAW

Contents:

• ARE GAY & LBIAN COUPL AS VLENT AS STRAIGHT COUPL?
• GAY MEN’S DOMTIC VLENCE PROJECT CONTENT TOPIC RULTS

ARE GAY & LBIAN COUPL AS VLENT AS STRAIGHT COUPL?

"There are external strsors, like discrimatn and vlence agast gays, and there are ternal strsors, such as ternalised negative attus about homosexualy.

"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. "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.

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. 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.

GAY MEN’S DOMTIC VLENCE PROJECT CONTENT TOPIC RULTS

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. This report provis an overview of existg rearch on timate partner vlence (IPV) and sexual abe (IPSA) among lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people and mak remendatns for future rearch. Most studi reviewed for this report found a lifetime prevalence of IPV among lbian and bisexual women, gay and bisexual men, and transgenr people that is as high as or higher than the U.

Acrdg to the NISVS, bisexual men seem more likely to report ever havg experienced IPV than heterosexual men, and gay men seem ls likely than heterosexual men to report ever havg experienced IPV. 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.