Gay Forced Dark: Incredible Gay Experiences of Straight Guys

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As stated in a 2016 report of the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment on punishment: Full integration of a gender perspective into gender analysis of torture and ill-treatment is critical to ensuring that violations rooted in discriminatory social norms around gender and sexuality are fully recognized, addressed and remedied. In 2011, six homosexual men were beaten viciously with electric cables by security agents and threatened with rape. Raise awareness about male sexual violence in the refugee and host communities to contribute to the reduction of stigma, remove the barriers to reporting of male survivors, and build knowledge about how and why male survivors of sexual violence should seek services. When he released me, he threatened me, instructing me to not tell my parents [about what he did to me] or he will kill them. The report finds that men and boys, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, are vulnerable to sexual violence in the context of the Syrian conflict.

For example, transgender women and non-binary people assigned male at birth do not identify as men or boys. I was harassed by the soldiers I stayed with,” they said, adding that they shared a room with three other male soldiers. And once they discovered his sexual orientation, the violence intensified: They said to us that they checked our phones and told us [Yousef’s detained friends], ‘You are not only against what is right; but you are also faggots. Service providers told Human Rights Watch that as in the case of female survivors of sexual violence, there is a lack of funding for programs and services to respond to needs of male survivors of sexual violence. While this report focuses on GBT survivors, people with non-normative sexual orientation and gender identity are not the only targets of conflict-related sexual violence.Nur, a 25-year-old gay survivor who uses female pronouns said that she was stopped at a checkpoint in Daraa, in 2012 for being late for her military service and was taken to the Palestine Branch.

Rima, who arrived in Lebanon in 2015, said: The people who interviewed me were respectable people but I did not feel safe enough. There were men who looked more soft, [appeared] to be like a woman more than a man, who didn’t have beards.Release all arbitrarily detained persons, in line with Syria’s commitment under point 4 of the Anan plan, “including especially vulnerable categories of persons, and persons involved in peaceful political activities. For example, Yousef said that he was detained by mukhabarat during an anti-government protest in the beginning of 2012 in Damascus. Many survivors said they experienced serious rectal bleeding during and after the attacks, as well as muscle pain and problems while sitting down and defecating.

Some of the interviewees fled to Lebanon directly after the violence occurred, but still did not immediately access help because they did not know where to go. Some case workers interviewed said that there are limited services tailored for the needs of male survivors of sexual violence in Lebanon. Even if male survivors do report incidents of sexual violence, they may report it as torture or humiliation instead of expressing the sexual aspect of the violence, due to fear of stigmatization and re-victimization. As a result, many survivors said they did not tell their families about the violence, nor did they seek help. Apart from being targeted by Syrian forces at checkpoints, in detention centers and within the Syrian army, gay and bisexual men and boys and transgender individuals have also been targeted and executed by the Islamic State (ISIS), in areas under ISIS control.Ghada told Human Rights Watch that she was sexually abused during her detention in Palestine Branch in 2012. Service providers and humanitarian organizations in Lebanon should provide comprehensive and confidential medical and mental health services to male, transgender, and non-binary survivors of sexual violence, with staff trained to handle their needs effectively and appropriately. The premise of this rumor was repurposed in September 2017 for a fake CNN news article which claimed that two looters (now named James Tobbes and Michael Smith) were sodomized after breaking into a home during Hurricane Irma. Yousef, who experienced sexual violence in a Syrian detention center and currently resides in Netherlands, said: I look behind me when I am walking.

Indeed, according to those who work with survivors of male/male rape, a commonly asked question is whether the victim is gay as a result of the rape. Persons under the control of armed groups in a non-international armed conflict must in all cases be treated in accordance with international humanitarian law, which incorporates important human rights standards.She said: I have scars in my arms because I cut myself to finish my life, but even God wouldn’t take me. There was a gay person in room nine and he was also in the middle of the room and going through the same things I went through.