FIRST Broken Rainbow Month In May

<p>The UK's first ever Broken Rainbow Month has been announced for May.</p> <p>by Newsdesk | 24th April 2014</p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4609164173.png" width="460" height="159" alt="Broken Rainbow" title="Broken Rainbow"/></p> <p></p><p>‘Broken Rainbow Month’ will celebrate the 10 years that the LGBT charity has been campaigning to bring the issue of LGBT domestic violence and abuse out into the open.</p><p></p><p>Broken Rainbow Month will be starting off with a social media campaign from Thursday 1st May followed by activities including a flagship reception in London engaging politicians and sector leaders (Tuesday 13th May), a panel discussion in Hove, featuring Linda Bellos OBE (Thursday 15th May), exhibitions and a host of other fundraising events.</p><p></p><p>Nearly 6.2% of gay or bisexual men in a relationship suffer from partner abuse in 2008/09, which is nearly double that for heterosexual men, whilst 12.4% of lesbian women suffer from abuse. Domestic abuse is said to cost victims, services and the state a total of £23 billion per year. Male victims (29%) are nearly twice as likely than women (17%) to not tell anyone about the partner abuse.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.brokenrainbow.org.uk/home">You can find Broken Rainbow here</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p>