Keep all information confidential. Encourage survivors to take legal action and seek support. Help find safe housing and legal advocacy. Hold batterers accountable and urge them to seek treatment. Deny that drug or alcohol use can excuse battering.
Support changes in that person's behavior.
Leather groups in our community are crucial to reducing domestic violence. It offers a list of readings and is currently compiling a roster of supportive speakers, shelters, and therapists, and information on understanding and using the law. The Celebration specifically authorizes and encourages the reproduction and redistribution of this information so please feel free to distribute this.