LGBT people

Gender and sexual orientation are characteristics that make up the identity and subjectivity of individuals directly influencing their psyche. Nowadays society is discussing identity and sexual issues and with this comes different forms of understanding and social reaction one of which is violence which many of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual Transgender and Transvestite (LGBT) population face on a daily basis. The aim of this study was to outline the sociodemographic profile of a group of LGBT people identify the types of violence they suffer and identify their cognitive and behavioural reactions to the violence they experience.