LGBTQI+ Intimate Partner Violence Short Film

LGBTQ people are more likely to experience abuse in a romantic or sexual relationship than heterosexual-cisgender (HC) people. According to Adam Messinger (LGBTQ INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE, Lessons for Policy, Practice, and Research) LGBTQ IPV is similar in many ways to HC IPV. Still, there are also key differences: LGBTQ IPV exhibits unique causes, abusive tactics, and barriers to receiving help. Sadly, there are often systemic failings in how societies address LGBTQ IPV-such as pertinent laws and policies that exclude certain LGBTQ IPV victims from coverage, a lack of training for key personnel working with victims and abusers, and a trend toward providing LGBTQ IPV victims with ill-fitting services designed for HC IPV victims.

We have seen many cases in South Africa where IPV led to fatal incidents. These cases some have been in the media and others reported at SAPS, however we are also aware of many others that happens without being reported on. It is therefore important to engage the community and society at large to pay attention to this challenge and collectively find ways to address it.

The Real Queer Talk recently short a video of two gay men who were going through different experiences in life and found each other in their journey of life. The muscular guy saves the feminine one from the misery they are in and they establish a romantic relationship. It is in the growth of this relationship where the muscular one starts being physically abusive to his partner and as typical of abusers find means to apologies with expensive gifts. The relationship continues with IPV intensifying also masculinity being visible in how it drives the relationship as the feminine partner is overpowered. Until that fateful day when the feminine one gets stabbed and killed.

This is a common story of some community members which has been normalised due to various factors such as economic power dynamics, fear for secondary victimisation when reporting to the law enforcement officers, fear to be judged by community and/or family members, etc.


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