Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. The legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers.
Contents:
- HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
- IT WAS MY FLT—WHY GAY MALE VICTIMS OF DOMTIC VLENCE OFTEN DISMISS IT
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
Domtic vlence occurred at 'more than twice' the rate 'lbian or gay' relatnships. * domestic violence gay *
"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.
"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.
IT WAS MY FLT—WHY GAY MALE VICTIMS OF DOMTIC VLENCE OFTEN DISMISS IT
LGBTQ+ domtic vlence is often unrreported. How do gay, lbian or trans domtic vlence differ and how n LGBTQ+ victims get help? * domestic violence gay *
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. Typil amg of partner abe as a heterosexual issue—wh men abg women—do a disservice to victims abive homosexual months to their relatnship, Chris's boyiend José phed him to the ground a f of anger and ripped the cloth off his body. Any attentn that I didn't give to him—whether I gave to iends, fay, or other guys, even jt other gay men who were my iends—he would get very upset if I hung out wh them too much.
They all intify as homosexual, and they all have had experienc wh physilly or psychologilly abive partners who left them fancially, mentally, or emotnally damaged.
A report om Human Rights Watch lls on the ernment of St. Vcent to overturn lonial-era anti-gay laws that have led to a recent wave of vlence and genr discrimatn on the small Caribbean island. * domestic violence gay *
"Yej Lee, an associate at the Anti-Vlence Program New York Cy, said that the assumptn of heterosexualy has been a huge stumblg block for gays and lbians seekg refuge om an aber. Sce the entire movement agast domtic abe started as a battered women's movement, Lee said, we are graed to thk that victims are all are married, straight a mental health unselor wh the Vlence Revery Program Boston, Jsi Newman says that bee the flt assumptn is that people are straight, there n be an attu wh shelters that a gay person somehow “served” the vlence.
'"But Newman, Lee, and Valente all add that there are also ternal factors that keep a ver of darkns over the issue of domtic vlence the gay muny.
Materials provid by the CDC for vlence preventn and survivor empowerment promently feature women their statistics and 2013, the CDC released the rults of a 2010 study on victimizatn by sexual orientatn, and admted that “ltle is known about the natnal prevalence of timate partner vlence, sexual vlence, and stalkg among lbian, gay, and bisexual women and men the Uned Stat. For gay men, was 40 percent, and 21 percent for straight most recent statistics available on same-sex timate partner vlence om the Natnal Coaln of Anti-Vlence Programs, which foc on LGBT relatnships, reported 21 cints of timate partner homicis the LGBT muny, the hight ever.
* domestic violence gay *
Nearly half of them were gay men and, for the send year a row, the majory of survivors were people of lor—62 2012, NCAVP programs around the untry received 2, 679 reports of timate partner vlence, a crease of around 32 percent om 2011.
Multiple factors have been shown to ntribute, cludg childhood abe, mental illns, cultural norms, strs, and unbalanced power dynamics the Norton has been a therapist New York for 12 years, specializg "challeng related to gay men (homophobia, g out, etc. "Benjam Seaman, also a New York-based therapist who has been practicg sce 2001, specializ polyamoro relatnships and has also seen the "full spectm" of gay upl.
This n further ntribute to strs a gay relatnship, said Seaman, when one or both of the people are "self-loathg" gave the example of one uple currently his re. Acrdg to Network/La Red Boston, only two of the 30 domtic vlence shelters Massachetts are specifilly geared toward LGBTQ people: Network/La Red, and the Gay Men's Domtic Vlence Program. 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.