Intimate partner violence is a serious yet oft-ignored issue facing LGBT people, says the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. To help break the cycle, Patrick Dati shares his experience.

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After coming out, Patrick Dati fell for a man who seemed great at first, but later began physically abusing him.

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Author, Anti-Violence Advocate and Motivational Speaker Patrick Dati Teams Up With Renowned Domestic Violence Expert Denise Brown to Address Domestic Abuse Impacting Gay and Straight Men and LGBTQ People

Dati Signs on with Brown’s “The Elite Speaker’s Bureau” as its First Gay Male Survivor to Speak on Domestic Violence

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“On this special show titled, “Child Predators: How to Protect Your Child,” we were joined by Patrick Dati, who had a horrifying encounter with serial killer John Wayne Gacy when he was only 9 years old, and lived to talk about it.”

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“The lifelong Chicagoan was 9, he says, when late serial killer John Wayne Gacy raped him in a restroom of Goldblatt’s department store on Belmont near Central in the winter of 1973. He kept the deeply scarring and life-altering incident secret for three-and-a-half decades and recently included a detailed account of it in his self-published memoir “I Am Me: Survivor of Child Abuse and Bullying Speaks Out.” Now he’s an advocate for victims of bullying and abuse, teaching them by example how to “reclaim” their lives.”

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