Rape of Gay High School Stunt Was Ignored, Acrdg to Lawsu

Contents:

• RAPE OF GAY HIGH SCHOOL STUNT WAS IGNORED, ACRDG TO LAWSU
• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY

RAPE OF GAY HIGH SCHOOL STUNT WAS IGNORED, ACRDG TO LAWSU

A lawsu by the mother of a Wt Virgia boy suggts that homophobia may be a factor failg to prevent the boy's rape, and later ignorg high school stunt, who is gay, was allegedly bullied, asslted and raped by a fellow stunt 2017. I was kidnapped and forced to have homosexual terurse. I would not nsir myself beg a homosexual due to the fact that I am only largely attracted to women.

Prop and others say another form of bias — discrimatn agast gay and transgenr mal — also helps expla why boys aren’t acknowledged as victims and offered help.

“There’s a lot of homophobia. ”Gay and transgenr youth are more likely to bee traffickg victims, acrdg to the Polaris Project, part bee fay nflicts ph many of them to n away om home.

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

Gay and transgenr youth also are at signifintly higher risk of physil vlence than others workg the sex, acrdg to the 2016 Youth the Sex Tra study and other rearch, most male child traffickg victims aren’t gay. An act of “barbaric” vlence where a 22-year-old gay man was gang-raped and tortured has prompted fierce reactn Brazil and is evince of a growg ti of hate crime the untry, acrdg to human rights man, who has not been named, was attacked last week Florianópolis by three armed men who ed sharp objects durg the asslt and forced him to rve homophobic slurs to his legs, said attackers left him the street where he was found and taken to hospal.

“This is a ighteng crime but ’s very mon Brazil, and vlence – not only agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people but also women, black people and immigrants – is worseng, ” said Liro Ávila, print of the Associatn Defence of Human Rights, an anisatn that helps victims of vlence Florianópolis.

She said opn had been divid, wh some people shocked by the se while others jtified , sayg the man was gay. ”In 2020, 237 LGBT people died suatns of vlence; there were 224 murrs and 13 suicis, acrdg to Gpo Gay da Bahia, the olst LGBT rights anisatn Lat Ameri.

PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY

Print Jair Bolsonaro has a long history of LGBT-phobic and misogynistic ments, cludg sayg that he is a “proud homophobe”.

”There have been other homophobic attacks the untry where objects have been ed on the victim.

Prof Luiz Mott, a gay rights activist and founr of Gpo Gay da Bahia, ced the se of 17-year-old Wner Oliveira who died after attackers phed a prsed air hose om a r wash si him. “A ser problem relatn to homophobic and transphobic crim is impuny, ” he said. “The police – for reasons of homophobia or stctural pacy – don’t vtigate every murr.