(Μικρό απόσπασμα από την έρευνα των Aleksandra Pikic and Ivana Jugovic: Violence against lesbians, gays and bisexuals in Croatia: research report. Γιατί, βλέπετε, κάποιοι θέλουν να πιστεύουν και να μας κάνουν να πιστέψουμε κι εμείς ότι βία κατά των ομοφυλοφίλων αποτελούν μόνον οι απαγχονισμοί στο μουσουλμανικό Ιράν, αγνοώντας βολικά ότι αυτή αποτελεί μια καθημερινή πραγματικότητα σε όλες τις χώρες του κόσμου με την συνενοχή όλων εκείνων που σιωπούν ή επωφελούνται από τα αποτελέσματά της.)
2. DEFINITION OF VIOLENCE
Violence against LGB population is an umbrella term to describe and include various
forms of homophobic behaviour which intend to humiliate and hurt the integrity, health
and safety of person(s) only because they identify themselves as lesbians, gays or
bisexual persons. In our research, we adapted the categories of violence of the Expert
Group for Combating Violence Against Women3, and we completed the list of the violent
incidents with that of the research of Herek et al. from 1997. Although the Expert Group
also describes the structural and spiritual violence, we only examined the physical,
sexual, psychological and economic violence. We considered that those kinds of violence
were directed against the basic areas of integrity, health and safety of every person, and
therefore adequate for the research of violence against the sexual minorities. In the base
of all those forms of violence, there is the abuse of power of the perpetrator which uses
the stigmatized position of the LGB population in society, which makes the sexual
minorities more vulnerable and unprotected population.
Definitions of the categories of violence according to the Expert group:
«Economic violence - Inequitable control over access to shared resources, for example:
denying/controlling access to money, preventing access to employment or education,
denial of rights to property.
Psychological violence - Taunts, jeers, comments, threats, isolation, contempt, bullying,
public insult. This is usually experienced as damaging to self-identity and well-being,
especially if it is persistent.
Physical violence - Pushing, shoving, hair pulling, hitting, beating, kicking, burning,
biting, strangling, stabbing, genital mutilation, torture, murder. Severity of injury ranges
from minimal tissue damage, broken teeth and bones to permanent injury and death.
Sexual violence - Any non-consensual sexual activity including: sexual taunts and jokes,
staring and leering, unwelcome comments, flashing (exposure), offensive phone calls,
unwanted sexual propositions, forced viewing of/or participation in pornography,
unwanted touching, coerced sex, rape, incest, being made to perform sexual acts the
woman finds painful or humiliating, forced pregnancies, trafficking and exploitation in
the sex industry.»
2. DEFINITION OF VIOLENCE
Violence against LGB population is an umbrella term to describe and include various
forms of homophobic behaviour which intend to humiliate and hurt the integrity, health
and safety of person(s) only because they identify themselves as lesbians, gays or
bisexual persons. In our research, we adapted the categories of violence of the Expert
Group for Combating Violence Against Women3, and we completed the list of the violent
incidents with that of the research of Herek et al. from 1997. Although the Expert Group
also describes the structural and spiritual violence, we only examined the physical,
sexual, psychological and economic violence. We considered that those kinds of violence
were directed against the basic areas of integrity, health and safety of every person, and
therefore adequate for the research of violence against the sexual minorities. In the base
of all those forms of violence, there is the abuse of power of the perpetrator which uses
the stigmatized position of the LGB population in society, which makes the sexual
minorities more vulnerable and unprotected population.
Definitions of the categories of violence according to the Expert group:
«Economic violence - Inequitable control over access to shared resources, for example:
denying/controlling access to money, preventing access to employment or education,
denial of rights to property.
Psychological violence - Taunts, jeers, comments, threats, isolation, contempt, bullying,
public insult. This is usually experienced as damaging to self-identity and well-being,
especially if it is persistent.
Physical violence - Pushing, shoving, hair pulling, hitting, beating, kicking, burning,
biting, strangling, stabbing, genital mutilation, torture, murder. Severity of injury ranges
from minimal tissue damage, broken teeth and bones to permanent injury and death.
Sexual violence - Any non-consensual sexual activity including: sexual taunts and jokes,
staring and leering, unwelcome comments, flashing (exposure), offensive phone calls,
unwanted sexual propositions, forced viewing of/or participation in pornography,
unwanted touching, coerced sex, rape, incest, being made to perform sexual acts the
woman finds painful or humiliating, forced pregnancies, trafficking and exploitation in
the sex industry.»
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εκπληκτικό ποστ! ευχαριστώ γι' αυτό!
σου συνιστώ επίσης να διαβάσεις και την εξαιρετική δουλειά του Νικόλαου Τσινώνη με τίτλο "Still Burning Witches: Violence on the Basis of Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity" σε εκδόσεις Σάκκουλα, είναι συγκλονιστικά τα όσα περιέχει
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