For LGBTQ+ Survivors: Affirming Help, Close to Home
Abuse happens in queer and trans relationships at rates as high as — and often higher than — anywhere else, and it is just as wrong. Yet survivors are often told, in a hundred quiet ways, that help isn't meant for them. If you've heard that, it was a lie.
Abuse in LGBTQ+ relationships can carry its own particular weapons.
Threats to out you to family, work, or your community; misgendering you to wear you down; withholding hormones, documents, or access to affirming care; or insisting that no shelter or hotline will understand "someone like you." Naming these tactics is the first step to loosening their grip.
Affirming help is genuinely close by.
Coastal Sussex is home to one of the region's largest LGBTQ+ communities — a place built, in CAMP Rehoboth's words, with "room for all." That means affirming help is genuinely close by: CAMP Rehoboth (302-227-5620), Sussex Pride, Rehoboth TransLiance, and national peer lines like Trans Lifeline (1-877-565-8860).
Whoever you are and whoever you love, you belong here. Affirming advocates are awake in Sussex County right now.
Affirming advocates are awake in Sussex County right now.