Leadg Advocy Group for Gay Rights the US Milary Shuttg Down |

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• GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS
• LEADG ADVOCY GROUP FOR GAY RIGHTS THE US MILARY SHUTTG DOWN

GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS

Gay, lbian and bisexual service members may be signifintly more likely to suffer sexual asslts the ary than heterosexual troops, a new Rand Corp.

Rand said about 43% of all ary sexual asslts over the prr year were mted agast troops who are gay, lbian and bisexual, or who otherwise did not dite they are heterosexual, although they make up about 12% of the active-duty force, acrdg to a 2018 Defense Department survey.

The difference between sexual asslt rat for gay or bisexual men, as opposed to heterosexual men, was even more stark, Rand said. 7% of gay or bisexual men -- ne tim the rate of LGB men -- had been sexually asslted. The data llected the Pentagon's 2018 Workplace and Genr Relatns Survey of Active Duty Members suggts that there may be about 43, 000 gay or bisexual men and about 29, 000 lbian or bisexual women the active-duty ary, out of nearly 1.

LEADG ADVOCY GROUP FOR GAY RIGHTS THE US MILARY SHUTTG DOWN

The 2018 survey found that 4% of servicemen, and 14% of servicewomen, intified as gay, lbian or bisexual. Wh so many gay, lbian or bisexual troops uniform, and such a disproportnate percentage of that populatn experiencg sexual asslts, Rand said the data suggts that "a nsirable actn" of sexual asslts are likely beg mted agast LGB service members.

To try to prevent asslts on gay, lbian and bisexual troops, Rand said the ary needs to do more to unrstand where they are occurrg and what is motivatg the attackers. Has such homoerotic ary ruals. For one, the ary is an tensely homoerotic place.

Many straight, gay and bisexual men have said that the shared showers, latr and changg areas; the pent-up horns and need for sexual exprsn all make the ary a place that awakens same-sex sire.