Content warning: This page contains information about relationship and sexual violence. It can take many forms, including physical violence, coercion, threats, intimidation, isolation, and emotional, sexual or economic abuse. Abusive relationships may include sexual violence, which is a form of physical violence. No matter what kind of relationship you have, if you are forced to have sex, it is rape. If you are humiliated or forced to be sexual in any way, that is sexual abuse. Relationship violence is a set of behaviors that are commonly misunderstood in our society. They suggest that the survivor is doing something wrong, rather than that the perpetrator of the violence is at fault. Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim. While many aspects of relationship violence against Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Trans or Queer individuals are similar to those experienced by heterosexual victims, it is not in all ways identical. Perpetrators often attempt highly specific forms of abuse based on identity and community dynamics, including:.
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