‘Epimic of vlence’: Brazil shocked by ‘barbaric’ gang-rape of gay man | Brazil | The Guardian

Contents:

• THIS GAY TEEN WAS RAPED
• A 16-YEAR-OLD WENT TO A GAY BAR WH A FAKE I.D. AND THGS COULD’VE END TERRIBLY IF NOT FOR THIS DRAG QUEEN
• GAY MAN RSIA BEATEN AND RAPED ON CAMERA HORRIFIC VIRAL VIO
• TWO MEN GUILTY OF GAY 'DATE' RAPE
• ‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL
• BTAL ASSLT OF GAY TEEN VIOTAPED, PS SEEK HELP LOTG SPECT
• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN

THIS GAY TEEN WAS RAPED

As the only out young gay kid at my school, I took the advancement of my sexual experienc to my own hands and I did what we all do: I bought a fake ID and h the gay clubs. While I knew wouldn’t be like a gay llege eroti I’d read on (gay non, really), I rather naively wasn’t expectg the fall out.

I realize I fell to that old gay adage of placg my feelgs on a person who, for whatever reason, was never gog to vt them back me.

A 16-YEAR-OLD WENT TO A GAY BAR WH A FAKE I.D. AND THGS COULD’VE END TERRIBLY IF NOT FOR THIS DRAG QUEEN

Worst of all, though, the shame attached to the memori of those first tim marred how I would approach sex for was listeng to Years & Years’ new song “Sanctify, ” and seeg the band’s out gay sger Olly Alexanr talk about how the song was spired his sexual trysts wh straight men, that I realized that the feelgs are way more mon than people let on. Sure, I know all about gay guys havg sex wh straight guys, but felt reassurg to see him scribe the “sat and sner role” he embodied durg those experienc, and to hear the uncertaty and melancholy weaved to the than anythg though, was the repeated lyril mantra of “I won’t be ashamed.

The two s illtrate a large, hidn, growg problem the Uned gay teens fd refuge stunt theater clubsWhen I was a teen, my school’s drama club felt like a safe haven. Many gay men report siar experienc growg up. But for one high school stunt Mantown, Wt Virgia, an after-school drama club reportedly turned to a homophobic nightmare.

GAY MAN RSIA BEATEN AND RAPED ON CAMERA HORRIFIC VIRAL VIO

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TWO MEN GUILTY OF GAY 'DATE' RAPE

It jt go to show that there is a market for a well-produced prt magaze showsg fe art photography by queer and gay photographers that is not jt a dick magaze! At my school, the very place that I first observed queer cursy, I was sred to e out, fearg my own physil and emotnal wasn’t jt the school locker room where I heard homophobic remarks. Gay people are an abomatn and are gog to Hell if they don’t get right wh God.

” Years later he warned: “If you turn out gay, I’ll fuck you up. Image me, a young black gay Christian male, tryg to rencile my sexualy wh school, home, and church life. What happens to a black gay Christian who liv a hoehold that hat him; who really believed that he was gog to Hell.

Perhaps was the support of iends, nts, and those around me that ma me not want to feel ashamed about myself anymore, even if that meant God damng me to the begng of senr year, I went om “I’m gay” to whoever asked, to “Can you stop sayg faggot please?

‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL

A month later, I cid to no longer participate the mentorship program, and every time I was asked why, I ma exc about beg too time, I retreated to my fantasy world, where I was not sixteen and gay a homophobic environment, but a world where I was olr, the future, when I would arrive to a betiful home om a long day at work, and be weled by a hband who lov me and bears my burns on his shoulrs. I was thrilled to be leavg and movg on, but I uld see that many of my fellow graduat were facg siar hurdl, on that I had enuntered, and had only masked their tth wh homophobia. Many years after occurred, an anonymo tumblr er has e forward wh a story about the horrific time a man slipped somethg to their drk a gay tablishment and dragged them outsi and to his r.

This summer, the beatg of a transgenr woman was also ught on tape and wily spread throughout the are not the first tensely homophobic cints that Rsia has seen recent tim, but homophobic vlence has creased terribly sce new laws banng "homosexual propaganda" passed June. LGBT groups say that this new legislatn has bolstered anti-gay activy, which clus "ambhg" spected homosexuals through social media trickery and then submtg them to rerd huiatn and if the acts are not chillg enough, seems as though the vios and clips are released to a vividly supportive dience, often appldg the attacks.

If they are not taed durg protts, mt be bee they are simply too sred to do anythg about the lack of liberty and jtice Rsia that acpany stipulatns the "homosexual propaganda law" which now f 4, 000 to 5, 000 bl (120-150 USD) per dividual and 800, 000-1, 000, 000 bl (24, 000-30, 000 USD) per registered anizatn for even mentng gay a very ser social movement, emerg Rsia will ntue to rank wh other plorably anti-gay stat (i. While Rsia fds self at a rare moment of ternatnal pnce, the ternatnal muny nnot turn a bld eye to the plight of Rsia's LGBT fight homophobia here.

BTAL ASSLT OF GAY TEEN VIOTAPED, PS SEEK HELP LOTG SPECT

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‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN

KEY POINTSA 22-year-old gay man  Brazil was attacked by three armed men last weekThe victim is now reverg, and police said they are vtigatg the cintActivists said the asslt was evince of a growg ti of hate crime the untryA 22-year-old gay man Brazil’s southern Santa Catara state was gang-raped and tortured last week what human rights activists scribed as a "btal" and "barbaric" act of vlence amid a growg ti of hate crime the victim, who was not named, was asslted the state's pal cy of Florianópolis by three men armed wh sharp objects who forced him to rve homophobic slurs to his legs, The Guardian reported, cg the activists.