Forcing gay

He was then left in the street, where he was later found before being taken to a hospital.

The man is now recovering at home, according to the report. During the acts, I mentally dissociated. Victims feel enormous shame when this occurs. Sometimes injuries that seem minor at first can get worse. Even if the victim identifies as LGBTQ+, same-sex rape is traumatic and does not in any way represent a desired sexual encounter.

One consequence of homophobia, ironically, is that it can be a motive for rape against someone thought to be gay or transgendered.

I have not forgiven myself for doing nothing. I have lost myself and forgotten who I was. I had been bought and sold. Sexual assault has nothing to do with the sexual orientation of the attacker or the survivor. The second is misogyny whereby males learn to have contempt for women and exhibit prejudice and discrimination against them.

Coming from a family of several positive male role models, I never had to hide who I was, so I never did.

Like everyone, I had heard the stories about men being “turned out” in prison. This does not mean that the survivor wanted to be raped or sexually assaulted. I became his “ho.” This meant that I was his property and available to him for sex at his beck and call or risk being “put in a ho’s place.”

It was enslavement.

I attempted to spring up but another man stood over me and forcefully pushed me back down by my shoulders.

“You ain’t fighting back, is you, sweetness?” he said. The victim’s own homophobia, and the perceived homophobia of others, reinforce his silence and minimize his chances of seeking help. That cliché is so far from the truth.

As a sexual assault survivor, you have the right to report the crime to the police. I don’t know why I expected them to do anything.

I was too petrified to fight back. A common belief about same-sex rape of males is that it is an expression of gay sex. Thousands of men are sexually assaulted and raped every year, and it has nothing to do with their race, class, age, religion, sexual orientation, size, appearance, or strength.

The man who was standing exposed himself while the other aggressively forced me to give his friend oral sex. I became disassociated and depressed.