This book provides the first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same sex relationships, offering a unique comparison between this and domestic violence and abuse experienced by ...heterosexual women and men. It examines how experiences of domestic violence and abuse may be shaped by gender, sexuality and age, including whether and how victims/survivors seek help, and asks, what’s love got to do with it? A pioneering methodology, using both quantitative and qualitative research, provides a reliable and valid approach that challenges the heteronormative model in domestic violence research, policy and practice. The authors develops a new framework of analysis – practices of love – to explore empirical data.
A meta-analysis was conducted to investigate the association between internalized homophobia and intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration and victimization in same-sex relationships. The ...literature search and the application of the inclusion criteria made it possible to identify 10 studies, 2 of which were excluded due to missing data. Therefore, eight studies were finally included in the meta-analysis. The results showed positive and statistically significant associations between internalized homophobia and IPV perpetration and victimization, indicating that higher levels of internalized homophobia were related to higher levels of IPV. Specifically, the pooled effect size for the relationship between internalized homophobia and IPV perpetration (all forms), it was r₊ = .147, 95% confidence interval (CI) = .079, .214; for the association between internalized homophobia and physical/sexual IPV perpetration, it was r₊ = .166, 95% CI .109, .221; p < .0001; for the relationship between internalized homophobia and psychological IPV perpetration, it was r₊ = .145, 95% CI .073, .216; and for the association between internalized homophobia and any type of IPV victimization, it was r₊ = .102, 95% CI .030, .173. Implications of these results for clinical practice and future research are discussed.
In this study, we draw upon a social movement perspective to examine how movements and institutional opportunity (political and cultural) influenced a sample of Fortune 500 corporations’ adoption of ...a controversial organizational practice—same-sex partner health benefits. Our results show that while corporations’ gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) employee resource groups increased the rate of the corporations’ benefits adoption, the effect of the GLBT employee resource groups became weaker when the degree of resource concentration of local GLBT advocacy organizations was high. Political opportunity derived from state legal environments and cultural opportunity derived from the tenor of moral legitimacy in leading national press coverage had little influence on the rate of benefits adoption. Furthermore, the influence of a GLBT employee resource group on the rate of benefits adoption by its corporation became weaker when cultural opportunity, derived from increases in positive tenor of pragmatic legitimacy discourse used by movement and countermovement organizations in the press, was present. Accordingly, our study shows the complicated effects of movements within and outside corporations and cultural opportunity on the adoption of a controversial practice and reveals the importance of mobilizing structure (both internal and external movements) and cultural opportunity in the adoption.
Having same-sex partners is linked to poor psychological health and increased risk of suicide attempt. This link seems to be stronger for men than women. However, in France, there have been few ...studies of population samples, and the size of these studies does not always allow an in-depth analysis of these associations.
This study explored these associations by analysing data from a large epidemiological survey conducted in France from 2012 to 2019 that included 84,791 women and 75,530 men. The frequencies and risk ratios of depression, suicide attempts, alcohol dependence and regular cannabis use were calculated regarding two groups: those with only the other sex partners and those with any same sex partners. Risk of alcohol addiction and cannabis use was greatly increased for women who had homosexual relations, even after adjustment for social, demographic and sexual life factors, which was not the case for men. However, risk of depression and suicide attempts was increased for men who had homosexual relations; this was also true for women but to a lesser extent. The estimates remained unchanged after stratifying the population by three distinct social groups defined by education level.
The analysis of these differences was possible because of the large sample size of the CONSTANCES survey and its recruitment in the general population. This study helps increase knowledge of the health of sexual minorities. It can help clinicians pay more attention to the potential distress of their patients and can continue to inform policymakers of the effects of discrimination and stigmatisation linked to homosexual behaviour.
•Depression and suicide attempts are frequent among persons with same-sex partners.•Excess risk of depression associated with same-sex partners is higher for men than women.•Alcohol dependence and regular cannabis use are frequent for women with same-sex partners.•Excess risk of psychoactive drug use associated with same-sex partners is increased for women.•Globally, these excess risks are similar regardless of education level.
We review methodological opportunities and lessons learned in conducting a longitudinal, prospective study of same-sex couples with civil unions, recruited from a population-based sample, who were ...compared with same-sex couples in their friendship circle who did not have civil unions, and heterosexual married siblings and their spouse. At Time 1 (2002), Vermont was the only US state to provide legal recognition similar to marriage to same-sex couples; couples came from other US states and other countries to obtain a civil union. At Time 2 (2005), only one US state had legalized same-sex marriage, and at Time 3 (2013) about half of US states had legalized same-sex marriage, some within weeks of the onset of the Time 3 study. Opportunities included sampling legalized same-sex relationships from a population; the use of heterosexual married couples and same-sex couples not in legalized relationships as comparison samples from within the same social network; comparisons between sexual minority and heterosexual women and men with and without children; improvements in statistical methods for non-independence of data and missing data; and the use of mixed methodologies. Lessons learned included obtaining funding, locating participants over time as technologies changed, and on-going shifts in marriage laws during the study.
In recent decades, the study of psychological abuse in same-sex couples has increased, but the perpetration of psychological abuse and the influential psychosocial factors have been studied less. ...However, some previous studies have shown the importance of the insecure attachment style and outness as relevant psychosocial factors in the perpetration of psychological abuse. The aim of this research is to study the influence of the insecure attachment style on psychological abuse perpetration in same-sex couples, and the moderating role of the level of outness as antecedent variables of the perpetration of psychological abuse. An online survey was conducted with respondents from Spanish-speaking countries with 305 lesbian, gay men, and bisexual or pansexual adults. Results confirm that overall outness moderates the relationship between the insecure attachment style and the perpetration of psychological abuse. Specifically, taking into account the three subscales of outness (to family, to the world, and to religion), outness to the world moderates the relationship between the insecure attachment style and the perpetration of psychological abuse. The subscales of outness to family and to religion did not show significant results. The results obtained contribute to elucidating some of the relevant antecedent psychosocial factors in the perpetration of psychological abuse in same-sex couples. Practical implications and recommendations for future studies are included.
This comprehensive resource book examines a broad range of issues that confront the victims of same-sex domestic violence and those who offer them services. Chapters include topics of practical ...concern, HIV, same-sex domestic violence, establishing safe-home networks for battered gay men, courtroom advocacy, coalition building and dating violence prevention.
We draw upon institutional theory to investigate the interactive influences of institutional mechanisms-coercive, mimetic, and normative-on the diffusion of a controversial and socially stigmatized ...practice, same-sex partner health benefits, in Fortune 500 corporations between 1990 and 2003. Given the social stigma associated with domestic partnerships of lesbians and gay men during the period of the study, the provision of these benefits was highly controversial and induced intense contestation between proponents and opponents of the institution of equal treatment for lesbian and gay employees. We explore the diffusion of theses benefits using data on cumulative adoptions by similar others, state laws forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation, and overall tenor in press coverage of the benefits. Our analysis shows that the cumulative number of adoptions within industry increased the positive effect of state laws on the corporation's decision to provide the benefits. However, the cumulative number of adoptions in the state of the corporation's headquarters decreased the positive effects of both state laws and overall tenor in press coverage on such a decision. Accordingly, our study contributes to institutional theory by pointing to complex interactive influences of institutional mechanisms on the institutionalization of contested practices, and to the literature on lesbian and gay issues in the workplace by studying factors influencing organizational decisions to adopt policies supportive of lesbian and gay employees.
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