Violence Among the LGBT Community

After reading a scholarly journal (Guadalupe-Diaz, X. 2013, November 3, An exploration of differences in the help-seeking of LGBQ victims of violence by race, economic class, and gender), I found that the author was trying to find out how often same sex couple were reporting domestic violence. Also, if there is a correlation between race, class, or sex and amount of domestic abuse then compare it to the amount of hate motivated violence that was occurring. The study that was conducted, was targeting same sex couples and was performed with surveys. The conclusion showed that, out of the 993 homosexual participants, 494 have experienced domestic violence and 471 have experienced hate-motivated violence. Out of the 494 participants that had experienced domestic violence, 228 were female and 128 were male. When it came to economic class, there was almost no relation to the amount of domestic violence that had occurred. Out of the 471 that had experienced hate-motivated violence, 191 were female and 193 were male. Again, almost no relationship between economic class and victims of hate-motivated violence. The results are a bit more staggering when it came to reporting and seeking help. Out of the 69 males that identified as lower class, only 21.2% had sought formal help for domestic violence, 24.6% sought informal help, and only 19.8% had called the police for hate violence. Out of the 143 females that identified as lower class, 29.4% sought formal help from domestic violence and 37.8% sought informal help, but only 10.1% called the police because of hate-motivated violence. This shows that homosexual women are more likely to seek help after domestic violence, but less likely than homosexual men to call the police because of...

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...955, a young black man was murder because he supposedly whistled at a white woman on a bus. The two people that were committed of murdering this young man, were acquitted of murder by a jury that was made up of all white people. (Borgna Brunner, 2007, “A chronology of black history from the early slave trade through Affirmative Action”) Once society was able to progress past and see that those laws were morally wrong, the laws were changed and America was able to move on. I feel as though, in about ten years, America will look back at this and realize how they are treating the LGBTQ community is morally wrong. Hopefully, once that happens, the laws will change and they will be treated as “normal” people. Until then, society as whole should try to help the process and try to assist in creating a solution to the struggle that the LGBTQ community has to face daily.