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

Contents:

• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• ‘BARBARIC’ VLENCE AS GAY MAN BTALLY GANG-RAPED BY 3 MEN IN BRAZIL
• TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST
• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• GAY ‘SERIAL KILLER’ FILMED HIMSELF AND ANOTHER MAN ‘DG RAPG UNNSC MAN ON NEW YEAR’S EVE’

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

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

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.

"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 Associatn Defence of Human Rights print Liro Ávila. Hate speech ends up propagatg vlence, " she least 237 LGBT people died suatns of vlence 2020, acrdg to Gpo Gay da Bahia, the olst LGBT rights anizatn Lat Ameri. "We have a print who pound this vlence, ” said Ávila, referrg to Print Jair Bolsonaro, a self-scribed "proud homophobe.

He’s a notor gay s*x predator who has served time jail for numero sexual asslts.

TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST

There is a stereotype that such predators are homosexual. There is already enough homophobic sentiment society to make many gay men suffer om ternal nflicts about their sexualy. Beg sexually asslted may lead a gay man to believe he somehow “served , ” that he was “payg the price” for his sexual orientatn.

Unfortunately, this self-blame n be rerced by the ignorance or tolerance of others who blame the victim by suggtg that a gay victim somehow provoked the asslt or was ls harmed by bee he was gay.

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

Gay men may also hate to report a sexual asslt due to fears of blame, disbelief or tolerance by police or medil personnel. As a rult gay men may be prived of legal protectns and necsary medil re followg an asslt. Some sexual asslts of men are actually forms of gay-bashg, motivated by fear and hatred of homosexualy.

They fear beg ignored, lghed at, disbelieved, shamed, acced of weakns, or qutned about beg gay. 7 If a man is raped by another man, do mean he’s gay? While gay men n be raped (often by straight men), a man gettg raped by another man says nothg about his sexual orientatn before the asslt, nor do change his sexual orientatn afterwards.

Bee of society’s nfn about the role that attractn plays sexual asslt and about whether victims are rponsible for provokg an asslt, even heterosexual male survivors may worry that they somehow gave off “gay vib” that the rapist picked up and acted upon.

GAY ‘SERIAL KILLER’ FILMED HIMSELF AND ANOTHER MAN ‘DG RAPG UNNSC MAN ON NEW YEAR’S EVE’

For a gay man, pecially one who is not yet out of the closet, the possibily that he is broadstg his “secret sexual inty” to others whout even knowg n be particularly upsettg. 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. 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.