Nearly half of gay, bi men UK sexually asslted, survey fds | Rters

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• NEARLY HALF OF GAY, BI MEN UK SEXUALLY ASSLTED, SURVEY FDS
• I’M A GAY ATHLETE AND A SEXUAL ASSLT SURVIVOR
• SEXUAL ASSLT RISKS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• THE PREVALENCE OF SEXUAL ASSLT AGAST PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL THE UNED STAT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

NEARLY HALF OF GAY, BI MEN UK SEXUALLY ASSLTED, SURVEY FDS

Moreover, the ways which society both hypersexualiz LGBTQ people and stigmatiz our relatnships n lead to timate partner vlence that stems om ternalized homophobia and shame.

44 percent of lbians and 61 percent of bisexual women experience rape, physil vlence, or stalkg by an timate partner, pared to 35 percent of straight women26 percent of gay men and 37 percent of bisexual men experience rape, physil vlence, or stalkg by an timate partner, pared to 29 percent of straight men46 percent of bisexual women have been raped, pared to 17 percent of straight women and 13 percent of lbians22 percent of bisexual women have been raped by an timate partner, pared to 9 percent of straight women40 percent of gay men and 47 percent of bisexual men have experienced sexual vlence other than rape, pared to 21 percent of straight men. Forty-four percent of lbian women have experienced rape, physil vlence, and/or stalkg by an timate partner their lifetime, while 26% of gay men have as well (that number creas to 37% for bisexual men).

Across the board, LGBTQIA+ dividuals faced more barriers to accsg aid and re — particularly for transgenr people of lor and Black men who intify as gay. In a 2014 survey, 97% of gay and bi men and 99% of lbians chose discrimatn as their greatt ncern when travellg.

I’M A GAY ATHLETE AND A SEXUAL ASSLT SURVIVOR

Havg to see an article about a homophobia-motivated murr or see transphobic ments a popular film n be hugely triggerg and trmatizg. For years, gay bars ma me nseo. One of the first tim I ever went to a gay bar, a place Washgton, DC, a man stuck his hands down my pants and fgered me whout my nsent on the dance floor.

I reamed the experience as nsensual, and cid later that somethg else—perhaps the stench of Acqua di G, or general nerv around potential sex partners—was what ma me want to projectile vom every time I saw a gaggle of men dancg to "Hung Up" by is so hard to talk about sexual asslt as a gay guy? Acrdg to a 2010 CDC report, gay men experience siar rat of rape by an timate partner as their straight patrts, but when you factor sexual vlence other than rape, the rate more than doubl: 40 percent of gay men and 47 percent of bisexual men, vers 21 percent of heterosexual men over their lifetim (which clus all enunters, whether om an "timate partner" or not). "Gay men, like women, n be culturally ndned to believe that they brought on sexual abe.

SEXUAL ASSLT RISKS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

"Men are portrayed our society as beg sexually satiable, which mak hard to acknowledge that somethg that happened to them—which they did not fight off but which was neverthels unwele—was abive, " she Rizzo, a crystal meth unselor at the Los Angel LGBT Center, said he's seen many gay men aaid to label somethg that's happened to them as rape. They say, 'If I hadn't been there, if I hadn't been g dgs…'"Serial predators the gay muny rely on that nfn, Rizzo said. "It's not hard to fd gay victims of sexual asslt.

"Gay men have difficulty regnizg their own sexual abe, Stemple said, not jt bee of cultural ndng, but also due to physlogil factors outsi of their ntrol.

THE PREVALENCE OF SEXUAL ASSLT AGAST PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL THE UNED STAT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

'"When to reportg their asslt to police, Stemple said, "a lot of gay people still experience sexual shame, and then if you layer on to that beg a untercultural sexual settg, whether 's a party or a hookup, there's a sense that those settgs are gog to move the person further down the hierarchy of sexual victimhood, " said Stemple.

It's almost like they've bee sensized to the abe, as if was jt part of gay culture.