Almost half of gay and bisexual men Bra have been sexually asslted, a survey found on Thursday, as more LGBT+ rape survivors around the world speak out, cludg unr the hashtag #MeTooGay.
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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.
I’M A GAY ATHLETE AND A SEXUAL ASSLT SURVIVOR
In a 2014 survey, 97% of gay and bi men and 99% of lbians chose discrimatn as their greatt ncern when travellg. 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.
SEXUAL ASSLT RISKS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
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.
THE PREVALENCE OF SEXUAL ASSLT AGAST PEOPLE WHO INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL THE UNED STAT: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
"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.