Are Gay & Lbian Coupl as Vlent as Straight Coupl? | Psychology Today

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• ARE GAY & LBIAN COUPL AS VLENT AS STRAIGHT COUPL?
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

ARE GAY & LBIAN COUPL AS VLENT AS STRAIGHT COUPL?

For LGBTQ+ people, the same social termants pound wh homophobic and transphobic stigma, creatg even greater risk of IPV among the muny. 3%), vers a ltle over a quarter (29%) of heterosexual men, had experienced IPV their lifetime; gay men were slightly ls likely than heterosexual men to experience this (reported by 26%).

One five (19%) lbian, gay and bisexual high school-aged stunts say they have been forced to have sex, pared wh 6% of straight stunts. In addn, lbian, gay and bisexual high school-aged stunts report elevated rat of physil (13%) and sexual (16%) datg vlence, pared to the rat of physil (7%) and sexual (7%) datg vlence reported by their straight peers. For LGBTQ+ people, this often shows up by abers weaponizg existg homophobic and transphobic systems of stigma, discrimatn, and lack of tn around LGBTQ+ people, to perpetuate their ntrol.

Homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, and heterosexism surround the wheel to dite how the systems of hate and discrimatn n be weaponized for every technique and actn, and further create the scenars where vlence is more likely to occur.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

Abers may take advantage of the threat of homophobia and transphobia LGBTQ+ folks face their muni, and the impact n play on social support and enomic secury. Stereotyp around LGBTQ+ people specifilly n also be weaponized: for example, bisexual people—who are signifintly more likely than their lbian and gay peers to experience IPV--face the stereotype that they are hypersexual, which abers may explo to prsure them to unwanted sexual ntact. For stance, a 2016 report by the Natnal Coaln of Anti-Vlence Programs found that 44% of LGBTQ+ survivors of IPV were nied shelter servic when seekg help This is particularly te for transgenr, non-bary, and genr non-nformg survivors who are at risk of beg turned away, mistreated, or adnamed/misgenred shelters or servic that are segregated by sex Hatn to report out of fear of enunterg anti-LGBTQ+ stigma, driven by prr negative and discrimatory experienc wh health re provirs and stutns, the police, and the judicial system Negative experience when reportg to provirs or the police, cludg beg turned away, discrimated agast, or havg their plat dismissed, downplayed, or ignored bee perpetrator was a same-sex partner and/or survivor was LGBTQ+ Historil systemic bias agast LGBTQ+ people /same-sex upl om the police and judicial system, cludg creased risk of police btaly, creased likelihood of havg orrs of protectn enforced, and stigmatizg homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic attus held by provirs and police, all further perpetuate distst and hatn to report.

For stance, the same systems of homophobic/transphobic stigma and discrimatn that lead threat of outg to be an effective technique by abers to perpetrate IPV, may lead LGBTQ+ survivors to avoid reportg, for fear that dog so will force them to out themselv before they feel safe or ready. "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. Rogers says thgs started to improve quickly when, 2004, Massachetts beme the first state to make possible for gay men and women to marry.