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Today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) 2010 data on intimate partner and sexual violence among lesbian, gay and bisexual people in a report entitled 2010 Findings on Victimization by Sexual Orientation. This data follows the NISVS 2010 Summary Report released in December 2011, which found that sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence are widespread and a major public health problem in the United States. NISVS, developed by CDC's Injury Center, was initiated in 2010 to collect accurate and reliable incidence and prevalence estimates for intimate partner violence, sexual violence, dating violence, and stalking victimization.

Today's report on Sexual Orientation is the first nationally representative prevalence estimates of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence among those who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual in the United States. The report shows that lesbian, gay and bisexual people experience intimate partner and sexual violence at the same or higher rates as heterosexual people. This report, which cites data from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP), highlights the lifetime prevalence of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking victimization for U.S. women and men by self-reported sexual orientation. As a result of this data, the CDC's recommendations include a focus on the need for more research, prevention and response to lesbian, gay and bisexual survivors of violence.

The death knell for the Violence Against Women Act has been sounding for weeks. "The 112th Congress ended Thursday, and the Violence Against Women Act perished with it," Talking Points Memo wrote in early January.

In reality, the protections for victims under VAWA haven't completely gone away, but they are being threatened by ongoing legislative gridlock that the new Congress is now trying to overcome. Read the full article here »

Domestic violence is a crime in which one person asserts physical power over another individual for the purpose of controlling or dominating that person. As I engage in the legal system to fight for the rights of transgender individuals, I find that many transgender prisoners, especially transgender prisoners of color, are in personal relationships that are violent and abusive. In the pursuit of trying to find love and happiness, many transgender people accept physical abuse as love. The main reason I wrote my memoir, I Rise, was to educate and enlighten others about the transgender journey and the many obstacles that we have to overcome just to survive. Read the full article here »

Roughly 50 people marched on Brooklyn's 77th Precinct to protest the arrest of Jabbar Campbell, a party promoter who says police assaulted him during an event at his Crown Heights home. The group characterized the January 13 police action against Campbell as an anti-gay attack. Read the full article here »

The New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP), in collaboration with community partners including the Brooklyn Community Pride Center (BCPC), the LGBT Justice Project of Make the Road NY (MRNY), the Safe OUTside the System Collective (SOS) of the Audre Lorde Project and Streetwise and Safe (SAS), will hold a Press Conference in response to the New York Police Department (NYPD) assault of Jabbar Campbell in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on January 13th. The Press Conference will be immediately followed by neighborhood outreach from Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue to Fulton Avenue and Eastern Parkway to raise awareness about rights and safety for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people and all of our communities affected by this violence.

When: Saturday, January 26th at 6:00 PM

Where: Eastern Parkway Pedestrian Mall at Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn (3/4/5 trains to Crown Heights – Utica Avenue)