The grim tth of beg gay prison | Sadhbh Walshe | The Guardian

Contents:

• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• RAPE OF GAY HIGH SCHOOL STUNT WAS IGNORED, ACRDG TO LAWSU
• PARTY DG ED TO RAPE, FILM ATOSE GAY MEN: UK DOCUMENTARY
• NEARLY HALF OF GAY, BI MEN UK SEXUALLY ASSLTED, SURVEY FDS
• SEXUAL ASSLT AMONGST GAY MEN
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
• GAY MEN AS VICTIMS OF NONNSENSUAL SEX

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

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. Heterosexual men and boys are vulnerable to sexual vlence Syria, but men who are gay or bisexual—or perceived to be—and transgenr women are particularly at risk.

This report is based on terviews Human Rights Watch nducted Lebanon wh 40 gay and bisexual men and transgenr women—some of whom were perceived by perpetrators to be gay men—and non-bary dividuals, as well as 4 heterosexual men. Acrdg to terviewe, gay and bisexual men and transgenr women are subject to creased and tensified vlence based on actual or perceived sexual orientatn or genr inty. Provi targeted medil servic to male and gay, bisexual, and transgenr (GBT) survivors of sexual vlence, addn to the targeted servic for women and girls.

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

This report foc on the experienc of gay and bisexual men and transgenr women who are survivors of nflict-related sexual vlence Syria orr to highlight the specific vulnerabili surroundg real and perceived sexual orientatn and genr inty.

Among the 44 terviewe, 40 are gay and bisexual men, transgenr women, and non-bary dividuals and 4 are heterosexual men. Transgenr women were clud bee, although they intify as women, perpetrators perceived and targeted them as gay men. All terviewe were above age 18 at the time of terview; however, some gay, bisexual, non-bary and transgenr terviewe were mors when they were subject to sexual vlence Syria.

However, we have clud them bee they were perceived as effemate men, or gay men, and subject to sexual vlence on that basis.

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

Like cisgenr people, transgenr people may intify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or asexual; that is, they may be attracted to people of the oppose genr, the same genr, both genrs, or neher. Some of the same genr norms that drive sexual vlence agast women and girls—as well as the norms that nigrate homosexualy—unrp patterns of sexual vlence agast men and boys. When to gay or bisexual men, transgenr women, and non-bary people, vlence n also be triggered by antipathy toward non-normative sexual orientatn or genr inty and exprsn.

Gay, bisexual and transgenr (GBT) people are targeted for “viatg om expectatns around masculy or bee they are perceived as feme. To the ntrary, is part precisely bee of the potential negative effect of imputg a ‘gay’ inty or ‘homosexual’ behavr to the victim that male-male sexual vlence n be psychologilly and emotnally damagg…. [26] Heterosexual male survivors of sexual vlence may qutn their masculy (and therefore their societal power) and sexualy, part of which is driven by stigma agast homosexualy.

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

Ined, acrdg to those who work wh survivors of male/male rape, a monly asked qutn is whether the victim is gay as a rult of the rape. However, evince suggts that gay and bisexual men and transgenr dividuals are more vulnerable to this type of vlence bee they are targeted for vlence, wh or whout nflict, based on their sexual orientatn and/or genr inty. Torture and ill-treatment of persons on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientatn or genr inty is rampant armed nflict and perpetrated by State and non-State actors alike, wh rape and other forms of sexual vlence sometim beg ed as a form of ‘moral cleansg’ of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr persons.

Siarly, a 2019 report, the UN Secretary-General regnized “that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex dividuals are sometim specifilly targeted wh sexual vlence nflicts” and remend:. [M]ore nsistent monorg and analysis of and reportg on vlatns agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex dividuals, and the review of natnal legislatn to protect lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex victims. Therefore, while article 517 do not specifilly mentn homosexual nduct, may be ed to imprison LGBT people Syria.

SEXUAL ASSLT AMONGST GAY MEN

Sexual and genr mori Syria have suffered discrimatn and persecutn exacerbated by state-sponsored homophobia long before the war began. [67] Perpetrators target men who are gay or bisexual—or perceived as such—bee they vlate heterosexual norms and do not nform to social expectatns of masculy.

Cas that Human Rights Watch documented show that although men and boys are stopped at checkpots regardls of their sexual orientatn and genr inty, gay and bisexual men and transgenr dividuals were often sexually and verbally harassed and sexually abed on the basis that they were “soft lookg. So, wearg tight pants, wearg lots of perfume or fixg the hair—the are practic only for gay and trans people. Nur, a 25-year-old gay survivor, was taed Palte branch, a tentn facily n by the Syrian Milary Intelligence, 2012 for beg late for her ary service.

Apart om beg targeted by Syrian forc at checkpots, tentn centers and wh the Syrian army, gay and bisexual men and boys and transgenr dividuals have also been targeted and executed by the Islamic State (ISIS), areas unr ISIS ntrol. [83] Amal, a 26-year-old transgenr woman, was taed by ISIS and wnsed one of her gay iends beg thrown om a high buildg to his ath.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

Khalil, a 21-year-old gay survivor was ptured by ISIS wh a group of people, cludg his boyiend who was killed for beg gay. In addn to beg targeted by state and non-state armed groups, gay and bisexual men and transgenr women told Human Rights Watch that LGBT dividuals Syria are rejected, ostracized, and subject to vlence by their fay members. Gay and bisexual men and transgenr women terviewed by Human Rights Watch scribed beg severely beaten by their parents, locked their rooms and thrown out of their hom.

Jamal, a 23-year-old gay man who has lived Lebanon sce 2014 wh his siblgs, told Human Rights Watch that after his brothers disvered his sexual orientatn, they physilly abed him:.

GAY MEN AS VICTIMS OF NONNSENSUAL SEX

Fahed, a 23-year-old gay man, received a threateng text msage om his mother on September 5, 2018, when she learned that her son was gay:. Interviewe believed that perpetrators creased or tensified the vlence once they learned that the terviewe were gay, bisexual, or transgenr. Yoef, a 28-year-old gay male survivor of sexual vlence, told Human Rights Watch he observed officials the Al-Khattib Branch, a tentn facily n by the General Intelligence, targetg women, girls, men, and boys wh sexual vlence, g on “anyone who is agast them.

He told Human Rights Watch that although he was not targeted by the telligence agency bee he was gay, once they learned about his sexual orientatn through checkg his phone, vlence durg terrogatns creased drastilly. Yoef told Human Rights Watch: “They said, ‘We are gog to brg here your dad to see that you are gay and they will disown you and you are disgtg.

Intelligence officials taed Yoef the same facily as a gay iend of his, who they had also arrted durg the same prott. Zarifa, a 22-year-old gay man, who female pronouns, said that her fay plaed about her to the Syrian ernment once they realized her sexual orientatn, when she was around 13 years old. There was a gay person room ne and he was also the middle of the room and gog through the same thgs I went through.