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Integrate responses for male survivors (adult and child) and GBT survivors into sexual violence-related referral pathways and ensure robust referral pathways for all survivors. Conflict-related sexual violence against men and boys is widespread around the world; however, it is at times misunderstood and underreported for various reasons. [7] CRSV: A Male Issue Too Jane Schoenbrun’s directorial debut is steeped in the language of Youtube and chat rooms — various real cult online personalities make appearances in the grainy World’s Fair videos — and the wistful music of lo-fi music icon Alex G, but the film’s exploration of the internet digs at something deeper than aesthetic authenticity. Tinged with queer and trans subtext about freeing yourself from physical restrictions, “We’re All Going to the World’s Fair” captures the terror of releasing a part of yourself into the online void, and how you never quite know the people who choose to respond. —WC

According to research conducted by UNHCR, heterosexual survivors often do not tell their wives about what happened, fearful that the sexual abuse would diminish their “manhood,” and their role as a father. [143] Interviewees told Human Rights Watch that the stigma and shame of being subject to sexual violence compounds the fact that they are already stigmatized and rejected by their families on the basis of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Physical Trauma Rape and other forms of sexual violence have been used as a tactic and practice of war in different conflict settings by a range of perpetrators against women, men, girls, and boys. [5] When it comes to gay or bisexual men, transgender women, and non-binary people, violence can also be triggered by antipathy toward non-normative sexual orientation or gender identity and expression. Rape and other forms of sexual violence are also motivated by homophobia and transphobia. Gay, bisexual and transgender (GBT) people are targeted for “deviating from expectations around masculinity or because they are perceived as feminine.” [24] In his take on the classic vampire tale, Francis Ford Coppola unleashes the sexuality that was always lurking underneath Bram Stoker’s original “Dracula” in sumptuous color and delicious visuals. Some have noted queer themes even in the 1931 original, most notably in Count Dracula’s mistresses. Coppola made these characters much more explicit, embroiling the women in a sensual and pretty overtly Sapphic orgy. —JD For example, truth commissions’ reports on crimes during the civil wars in El Salvador and Peru states that 1 percent and 2 percent of survivors of sexual violence, respectively, identified in the testimonies were male. However, a re-analysis and re-coding of the testimonies revealed that survivors of sexual violence during the armed conflicts in Peru and El Salvador were actually male in 53 percent and 22 percent, respectively, of the total cases of sexual violence. [46]

Yousef did attempt to get medical care in Syria, but was refused by multiple hospitals, so he was treated by a private doctor who knew his family. Yousef said: I had my surgeries in Syria. I was really in a bad situation. I was not even pooping. Some hospitals didn’t accept me. Because they were scared. They considered me as an enemy. They thought I was from the opposition. [171] Human Rights Watch makes every effort to abide by the best practice standards for ethical research and documentation of sexual violence. The interviews were conducted by a female researcher and a female interpreter, with Arabic to English translation. All interviews were conducted privately. One heterosexual survivor was accompanied by his case worker at his request.

In many cases, staff working in gender-based violence programs have no training in assisting male survivors. Some case workers told Human Rights Watch that they do not know how to respond when they encounter a male survivor of sexual violence. A case manager in a humanitarian organization responsible for the men’s center in the organization said: I am responsible for the men’s center. But I’m not capable or trained to deal with men. I depend on the things I learned with women. I trained myself. I’m always wondering should I say this or that. [185] Naila said that then she was taken to an individual cell where she was raped by other prisoners, guards, and people she thought were high-ranking officials. Naila said: They woke me up and took me to room five. It was an individual cell. I thought I would be alone, but they let in someone every single day, one or two people. Guards, prisoners, high ranking officials working at the police station. At the end I lost the power to resist. I just surrendered. I was covered in blood the whole time. [113] Rape in the Syrian Army A prolific and successful horror fiction writer who began directing to adapt his work himself, out gay filmmaker Clive Barker is responsible for two of the films on this list, “Nightbreed” and “Hellraiser.” Barker’s directorial debut spawned a wildly successful horror franchise that includes 11 “Hellraiser” movies. The report is based on research conducted between December 3, 2018, and February 14, 2019. Human Rights Watch interviewed 42 Syrian survivors of sexual violence who currently live in Lebanon and 2 survivors who resettled in the Netherlands and Italy as well as 20 case workers, social workers, doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists working for local and international humanitarian and human rights organizations in Lebanon.

Ensure that health care workers and police are trained to work with traumatized victims and witnesses, including in clinical management of rape of male survivors and identification of male survivors of sexual violence. That’s both in spite of and because of its embrace of queerness (from the barely-there short-shorted young men with glistening torsos batting around the volleyball to hilariously sharp quips like, “She’s a real carpenter’s dream: flat as a board and needs a screw”) and its entirely problematic relationship to it. Spoiler alert: In the wild climax, it’s revealed that the killer, a dark-haired girl named Angela, is actually a boy named Peter. The final shot shows a deranged-looking Peter holding a knife covered in blood, penis in full view. It turns out that Angela died in a boat accident, and her brother Peter was raised as the dead girl by their aunt. As political science scholar Michele Leiby states: “Norms of hegemonic masculinity exclude the very possibility of male weakness, victimization, or sexual penetration.” [21] In many societies, people often believe that men who have been raped or subject to sexual violence are not “real men” because “real men” can protect themselves from such violence. [22] Sivakumaran explains: [S]exual violence may be considered to be inconsistent with certain societies’ understandings of masculinity. Victims are considered weak and helpless, while men strong and powerful. Masculinity and victim-hood are thus seemingly inconsistent. [23] We start from the premise that everyone has a gender identity. Most people identify as either female or male, though some may identify as both or neither. If someone is labeled “female” at birth but identifies as a man he is a transgender man (or transman). If someone is labeled “male” at birth but identifies as a woman she is a transgender woman (or transwoman). They may or may not take steps to physically alter their bodies, such as undergoing hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or sex reassignment surgery (SRS). The term “ cisgender” (non-transgender) is used for someone who identifies with the same gender, male or female, as the sex they were assigned at birth.