RESOURCES

Gay Male Domestic Violence Sites:

• Canada's Education Wife Assault's website - there is a section on same-sex partner abuse
• New York's Anti Violence Project
• Links to many sites, information on several areas of violence and abuse
• Boston's Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
• Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital Site of Gay Domestic Violence information and programs
• San Francisco's Community United Against Violence Home Page
• London's University of Western Ontario's Domestic Violence Resource page (includes assistance for Lesbians)
• Tuscon's Wingspan Domestic Violence Project

Downloadable Documents:

Download a complete paper on Domestic Violence (Microsoft Word format 347k)

Local Resources

Lesbian Domestic Violence Sites:

• link under domestic violence, statistics

Bibliography

Battered Lovers - The Hidden Problem of Gay Domestic Violence, The Advocate, Los Angeles, CA, March 4, 1986

De Cecco, ed, Gay Relationships, Harrington Park Press, 1987

Font, R., Battering in Same Sex Couples, In the Family, Family Magazine Inc. Vol. 1, No. 2, 1995

Hamberger, L. Kevin & Renzetti, Claire, eds, Domestic Partner Abuse, New York, Springer Publishing Company, 1996

Island, D. & Letellier, P., Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence, Harrington Park Press, 1991

Hardy, J., Male on Male Abuse In The Gay Community, Men's Style, March 1996

King, P., Not So Different After All, Newsweek, New York, NY, October 4, 1993

Letellier, P., Gay and Bisexual Male Domestic Violence Victimization: Challenges to Feminist Theory and Responses to Violence, Violence and Victims, 1994, 9, 2, Summer

Lundy, Sandra E., Abuse that dare not speak its name: assisting victims of Lesbian and gay domestic violence in Massachusetts, New England Law Review v.28, Winter 93

Renzetti, Claire M., & Miley, Charles Harvey, eds, Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnerships, Harrington Park Press, Binghamton, New York, 1996

Renzetti, C., Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships, Sage Publications, London, 1992

Schilit, R., & Lie, G., Substance Use as a Correlate of Violence in Intimate Lesbian Relationships, Arizona State University, Journal of Homosexuality, Vol 19(3), 1990, Haworth Press Inc.

Snow, K., The Violence at Home, The Advocate, Los Angeles, CA, June 4, 1992

Szymanski, M., Battered Husbands - Domestic Violence in Gay Relationships, Genre Magazine, Los Angeles, Fall 1991

Tuller, D., When Gays Batter Their Partners, The San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA:, January 3, 1994.

Note: Most of the books and some of the periodicals are available through the Toronto Public Library system or the University of Toronto Library system.

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