less then 5% of the nyc population is gay. but over 70% of the domestic violence calls are between 2 men.. numbers speak for themselves
when you make specific claims like that, you better have references to back them up.
http://www.avp.org/publications/reports/2005nycdvrpt.pdfIn 2004, there were 486 new cases for 607 new victims/survivors of same sex domestic violence in New York.
http://www.opdv.state.ny.us/about_dv/dataweb2003.htmlIn 1999, the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services received 55,558 police reports of family offenses involving adult intimate [opposite sex] partners
http://www.sanctuaryforfamilies.org/index6.htmIn fiscal year 2000, the NYC Domestic Violence Hotline received more than 99,000 [opposite sex] calls, averaging over 8,000 calls a month.
from the same link
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) documented 2,574 reported cases of lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual domestic violence during 1998. Research attempts to gauge the actual prevalence of violence in LGTB relationships have generally found rates roughly equal to those estimated in heterosexual couples
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/10/06/MN61230.DTLBattering as Common Among Gays as Straights