Queer men are victims of street harassment nobody talks about
// November 28th, 2015 // Around the globe, AVP news, International, Media discussion, Relationship violence, Within Australia, Within Victoria
This week we observed White Ribbon day and discussed how pervasive and destructive masculinity can be towards women.
However as Derrick Clifton writes in The Guardian, ‘uncomfortable, if not traumatizing, experiences (of harassment of gay men) get swept under the rug, or worse, internalised as something that “just happens” and shouldn’t be taken seriously’, revealing that many gay men, too, cope silently with harassment and consent issues in male dominated social spaces.
In Australia, governments are yet to turn their social policy lens and budgetary spends towards violence and harassment targeting the LGBTI community. The AVP believes that this makes Clifton’s argument, that its time to have more of a conversation about how the misogyny and patriarchy imbued in rape culture targets gay and gender non-conforming men, a very real and timely conversation to be had.
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