Sexual assault of LGBT persons

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Sexual assault of LGBT people is a form of violence against people in the LGBT community or sexual and gender minorities (SGM). While sexual assault and other forms of interpersonal violence can occur in all forms of relationships, sexual minorities experience it at rates that are equal to or higher than their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts.^[2] There is a lack of research on this specific problem for the LGBT population as a whole, but there does exist a substantial amount of research on college LGBT students who have experienced sexual assault and sexual harassment.