If you're gay, bisexual, or transgender

You may be in an abusive relationship if your partner:

• Threatens to inform friends, family, colleagues, or community members about your sexual orientation or gender identity.

• Insists that the police won’t help someone who’s gay, bisexual, or transgender.

• Ridicules your attempts to escape the relationship by labeling you as someone who deep-down believes that gay, bisexual, or transgender relationships are aberrant or unnatural.

• Accuses you of not really being gay, bisexual, or transgender.

• Justifies their abuse with the excuse that all men are naturally aggressive and violent.