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Contents:

• 3 MEN SENTENCED 2019 ASSLT ON GAY UPLE AT, TEXAS
• NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE VTIGATG ALLEGED ATTACK ON GAY UPLE
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
• I’M A GAY ATHLETE AND A SEXUAL ASSLT SURVIVOR
• ‘I FEAR FOR MY LIFE’: GAY SHOP OWNER REPORTS HOMOPHOBIC ASSLT SOMERSWORTH, N.H.
• SEXUAL ASSLT AMONGST GAY MEN
• OREGON MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME AFTER ATTACKG GAY MAN

3 MEN SENTENCED 2019 ASSLT ON GAY UPLE AT, TEXAS

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. AUSTIN, Texas — Three of the four men acced a 2019 asslt on a gay uple downtown At won't serve any addnal jail time after reachg plea three men each plead to two unts of mismeanor asslt wh a hate crime fdg, even though the At police tective who vtigated the fight reported about a year to the vtigatn that he did not believe the asslt was a hate crime.

”Prevly:Man acced of assltg gay uple downtown At arrted after missg urt dateQun O’Connor, Frank Macias and Kolby Monell will not serve any addnal jail time as part of the plea al. Months to the vtigatn, At police Detective Robert Field spoke wh a prosecutor and said he believed the fight started when one of the men the group of four bumped shoulrs wh one of the gay men while they were passg on the street.

Field also told prosecutors that one of the four men, Macias, mentned an terview wh vtigators that one of the gay men had ma a racial ment to Macias’ told police he was punched to the ground, where he was beaten wh fists and feet. Nearly half of bisexual men and four ten gay men have experienced sexual vlence other than rape their lifetime, and though statistics regardg rape vary, is likely that the rate is higher or parable to heterosexual men. Moreover, we are only jt now begng to -stigmatize the ia that there are male survivors of sexual asslt, cludg gay and bisexual men.

NEW HAMPSHIRE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE VTIGATG ALLEGED ATTACK ON GAY UPLE

Denial, misregnn, and the dismissal of outsi-the-muny ncern as latent homophobia are exampl of rpons to sexual asslt that occurs between members of the LGBTQ muny. — The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office has joed an vtigatn to an alleged Monday asslt of a gay uple who n a cholate shop a cy along the state’s eastern uple, who both live and operate the Wm.

Poole Confectns shop out of the same buildg Somersworth, reported they were jured an attack by a group of juvenil who shouted homophobic a post on Facebook, William Poole said he was stck on the eye wh a blunt stment and suffered laceratns, bis and stch om the asslt by young people tryg to enter the uple’s send-floor rince. When nonted on the siwalk, the group shouted homophobic slurs at them, Poole wrote.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

In 1984, when Calv Burde was awag sentencg for allegedly stabbg his gay lover to ath, the prosecutg attorney enuraged the jury his closg remarks to award Burde the ath penalty, rather than life prison, on the grounds that sendg a gay man to prison was ak to sendg a kid to a ndy store.

I’M A GAY ATHLETE AND A SEXUAL ASSLT SURVIVOR

His ath sentence was later overturned (mostly bee Burde's public fenr had slept through much of his trial), but the homophobic thkg – that prison is some kd of paradise for gay men – lgers realy of life prison for homosexuals and transgenr dividuals do not appear to reflect this myth. He scribed a lany of btal rap, asslts, beatgs and, eventually, the total abandonment of his male inty as his only means of survival the hyper-mascule and often homophobic prison environment.

His acunt suggts that far om beg a paradise, prison for gay men n be a livg days of his first enterg prison, the 23-year-old Rodney claimed he was the victim of three separate sexual asslts, volvg five different mat.

The prison he was first sent to did actually have a separate tier for gay mat, but acrdg to Rodney, bee he did not "appear overly effemate" durg his classifitn, he was placed wh the general populatn; and bee was supposedly rare to have a gay person slip through the cracks of the system, his fellow mat took full advantage.

‘I FEAR FOR MY LIFE’: GAY SHOP OWNER REPORTS HOMOPHOBIC ASSLT SOMERSWORTH, N.H.

"Agast popular opn, jail is not heaven for a homosexual. Gay men who do not attempt to hi their sexualy are forced to passive and submissive rol. It's difficult to asss how typil Rodney's prison experience is, but numero studi nducted by the Bure of Jtice Statistics, based on anonymo mate surveys, have shown that gay and transgenr mat are among the most targeted groups for sexual victimizatn.

Jt Detentn Internatnal (JDI), an anizatn whose aim is to eradite prison rape (pdf), is tryg to change has been workg wh the California Department of Correctns and Rehabilatn (CDCR) to tablish "sensive needs yards" (pdf), where gay, transgenr and other vulnerable mat n serve out their time safety.

SEXUAL ASSLT AMONGST GAY MEN

It’s even more taboo the gay muny. As a gay man, I see, hear and feel the hypersexualy that exists my muny.

This hypersexualy enurag gay men (pecially younger on) to take unwanted advanc, touchg or unsoliced photos as pliments or somethg to brag about.

A gay uple who live and n a bs a buildg that abuts Cy Hall Somersworth, N. H., reported that they were jured Monday night an asslt by a group of juvenil who shouted homophobic are vtigatg possible civil rights vlatns based on the uple’s sexual orientatn.

OREGON MAN CHARGED WH FERAL HATE CRIME AFTER ATTACKG GAY MAN

When nonted on the siwalk, the group of juvenil shouted homophobic slurs and talked about knowg that he and his hband are gay, he said. Growg up as a gay male is basilly like growg up like a straight male.

I do not want to make seem like my experience growg up was credibly unique but I do believe, at least based on my own experience and om rearch done on gay men, that we experience a wildly different sexual awakeng simply bee of our sexualy.