<p>The thors of this report timate the proportn of all sexually asslted ary service members who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual or who do not dite they intify as heterosexual.</p>
Contents:
- GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS
- ‘GAY’ RAPE ARY UNRREPORTED BY PENTAGON
- I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
GAY, BISEXUAL TROOPS MORE LIKELY TO SUFFER SEXUAL ASSLTS, STUDY SUGGTS
Rand said about 43% of all ary sexual asslts over the prr year were mted agast troops who are gay, lbian and bisexual. * gay rape army *
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‘GAY’ RAPE ARY UNRREPORTED BY PENTAGON
I'm gay and I'm terrified of men. OwenThe harst thg for me was the fear to be looked at as beg gay. 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. The 2018 survey found that 4% of servicemen, and 14% of servicewomen, intified as gay, lbian or bisexual.
I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
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.
Among lbian, gay, and bisexual service members, 80. ”Lbian, gay, and bisexual service members were banned om servg openly the ary until 2011, when the policy was overturned by the Obama Whe Hoe. Although the move was ially blocked a seri of feral urt lgs, the Supreme Court eventually allowed the trans ary ban to go to the rate of sexual harassment and asslt was signifintly higher for gay and bisexual men than heterosexual men, Schyuler noted the likelihood was roughly equal for queer women.
Around 70 percent of lbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women enlisted the ary, for stance, all reported experiencg a statement to the LGBTQ+ news webse Gay Cy News, Schyler poted to the “value system that valu mascule ials” as one reason for the discrepancy between the self-reported rat among queer women and men. “That uld prompt someone to act out agast women and gay and bi men, ” she claimed.