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Wednesday 24th July 2008

Following on from the ground breaking survey by Stonewall, featuring the under reported issue of lesbian and bisexual domestic violence Rita Hirani, consultant for Broken Rainbow, and Dr Catherine Donovan featured on BBC Women's Hour, talking about the issues involved around lesbian and bisexual domestic violence.

Also featured on the show was Karen, a woman who experienced domestic violence from her same-sex partner.

Quotes:

About the start of the abuse:

Karen: "It starts slowly..."

About the differing types of abuse suffered at the hands of perpetrators:

Rita Hirani: "Mental and psychological form of control, which is the earliest form of abuse..."

On the survey from Catherine Donovan, Marianne Hester, Jonathan Holmes & Melanie McCarry, Nov 2006 "Comparing Domestic Abuse in Same Sex and Heterosexual Relationships"

Dr Catherine Donovan: "Often women didn't idenitfy what had happened to them at the time as domestic violence."

Rita Hirani: "We are only just begining to recognise that same sex couples can be abusive to each other."

Listen to the interview here: BBC Woman's Hour

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