Tag: LGBTQ+

HBA in the LGBTQ+ Community Leaflet

‘Honour’-based abuse (HBA) is a crime or incident that has or may have been committed to protect or defend the ‘honour’ of the family and/or community.

Being LGBTQ+ or questioning your sexuality and/or gender identity when it is not acceptable within your family, faith or community’s beliefs, can be perceived as ‘dishonourable’ or bringing ‘shame’ on the family or community. Perpetrator(s) of HBA feel that the only way to restore family ‘honour’ or remove the ‘shame’ is to threaten to harm or kill, and in some cases even follow through on these threats.

Download our “HBA in the LGBTQ+ community” leaflet to learn about:

  • How HBA affects people in the LGBTQ+ community
  • HBA and conversion ‘therapy’
  • Other harmful practices that affect the LGBTQ+ community
  • How Savera UK helps LGBTQ+ people affected by HBA and harmful practices
  • Further help and resources

Conversion ‘Therapy’ Factsheet

Conversion ‘therapy’ refers to any interventions that seek to change, ‘cure’ or suppress the sexual orientation and/or gender identity of a person.

Conversion ‘therapy’ is not ‘therapy’ but a harmful practice and form of abuse against LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and all other identities included under the LGBT+ umbrella, including but not limited to intersex, asexual, pansexual, non-binary, queer and questioning) people.

It is considered harmful and unethical by many major health and mental health organisations, including the World Health Organisation (WHO), and is widely discredited.

Click the link or image below to download our factsheet to learn key facts, the law, and how to respond to cases, suspected cases and disclosures of conversion ‘therapy’.