Unhealthy LGBTQ+ Relationships
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Warning Signs of an unhealthy relationship
Emotional Abuse- making you question sexuality/gender, or projecting internalized phobias
Isolation- keeping you from friends, using sexuality as a weapon to control activities, or friends
Academic- taking away priority, making them #1,
Minimizing- Gender Roles, dehumanizing based on gender or transitioning gender
Intimidation- using dominance or age diff to threaten you, hitting walls, pets, breaking objects, etc.
Cyber Abuse- controlling social media, threats to out someone, or post intimate photos of you
Coercion- sexual acts, manipulation, or threatening to out you
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Lifetime Prevalence of IPV
Hetero Women 35%
Bi Women 61.10%
Lesbian 43.80%
Hetero men 29%
Bi Men 37.30%
Gay Men 26%
“Transgender youth reported the highest rates of dating violence, with 88.9 percent reporting physical dating violence.”
“Lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth are more likely to experience physical and psychological dating abuse, sexual coercion, and cyber dating abuse than their heterosexual peers.”