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Title: LGBT domestic violence victims not catered for, charity claims
Post by: Natasha on August 20, 2008, 12:10:44 AM
LGBT domestic violence victims not catered for, charity claims

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8740.html (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-8740.html)
Rachel Charman
8/19/2008

Broken Rainbow, the LGBT domestic violence service, has said that few
refuges have adequate provisions for LGBT people.

The organisation claims that gay service users experience homophobia
and transphobia, and in some cases, this allows their abuser to gain
access to them and further assault them.