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Second Annual Conference on Male Victims of Domestic Violence
posted by Scott on Tuesday September 03, @02:16PM
from the announcements/domestic-violence dept.
Announcements The Battered Men's Helpline is sponsoring its second annual conference on domestic violence against men. It will be held in Portland, Maine, on the afternoon of October 19. I attended this event last year and wrote up a summary of it (with photos). I'm definitely planning on attending again this year and I hope if you're in the area you will too. The program last year was excellent and I understand that this year there will be seating for more than 200 people. Help make sure these seats are filled and let others know about this conference, one of the only of its kind, focusing on DV against men. For more info see the BMH announcement of the conference.

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Homosexual Domestic Violence (Score:1)
by Ray on Sunday September 08, @09:09AM EST (#1)
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Someone ask for this information in a previous posting, and I just stumbled across it at the U.S. Dept. of Justice http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/ipva99.htm

After you get to this page click on the Acrobat file 140k and go to page 9, there you will find statistics on "Intimate Partner Violence between persons of the same gender, 1993-1999

16,900 women were the victims of domestic violence by their lesbian female partners.

13,740 men were victims of domestic violence by their gay male partners.

I would like to see better numbers as to the total population of homosexual men and women. It would seem to me that these percentages are saying that women are far more violent in these homosexual settings than in heterosexual settings, or does this merely prove what we've been saying all along? Here the women can't hide their violence like they do in heterosexual relations where any lie is sufficient to cast blame on a man.
Ray
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