Comments on: Conservatives and Labour ignore gay victims of domestic abuse claims charity

By: Jon Brisker

Jon Brisker — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:49:06 +0000

However, this is a LGBT site for LGBT news and so it's not about straight men.

And it's not 25%. It's 9% (acording to police data returns published on the Home Office's website). And 9% is less than the 1 in 4 LGBT people.

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By: Har Davids

Har Davids — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:16:07 +0000

Like Simon Murphy states, it's not just women who can be victims of domestic abuse. Money and specialists for various groups should be made availabe.

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By: Simon Murphy

Simon Murphy — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:59:04 +0000

It's not just LGBT victims of domestic violence who are ignored. Straight male victims of domestic violence are also routinely ignored. Partly that is because it is a vastly underreported crime but estimates say that 25% of domestic violence victims are men. You don't hear any talk about that very often though.

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