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Gays and violence
Advocate, The, April 8, 2008 by Todd Henneman
One out of every three gay men have experienced abuse by a partner, says a recent study in the Journal of Urban Health. By canvassing Chicago gay and bisexual venues and asking gay men to complete anonymous surveys, researcher David McKirnan, associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and graduate student Eric Houston identified the three most common types of abuse: verbal abuse such as threatening (20.6%), physical abuse such as hitting (19.2%), and sexual violence (18.5%).
Most men experienced more than one form of abuse, and the health consequences--high blood pressure, STDs, depression--were severe. The findings echo those published in 2002 in the American Journal of Public Health, which found 39% of gay men had been abused by a partner in the past five years. In both studies, intimate partner violence among gay couples rivals that suffered by straight women.
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