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bluntlyblue:

According to some LAPD officers, “a gay man can’t be raped”. Sign the petition to get an apology for James, gay men, and all rape victims.

On August 31, 2009 James Hornik was raped by another male in Hollywood, California. Mr. Hornik found himself in great need of police assistance and called on the LAPD, trusting that they would help him in his sudden predicament. When asked if he could press charges against his attacker, the LAPD officers simply responded, “A gay man can’t be raped”. Mr. Hornik was treated at Cedars Sinai Hospital but was denied a forensic rape collection kit by the LAPD, whose job it is to issue such kits through their forensic team.

James Hornik has been fighting for more understanding and recognition that men (gay or straight) can be raped ever since that muggy night in August of 2009 with very little help at all. He has contacted organizations such as LAMBDA Legal, GLAAD, the ACLU, the NoH8 Campaign and various others only to be denied help and led in circles. Mr. Hornik even filed the proper complaints with the city, county and the LAPD internal investigation team. The LAPD was exonerated from any wrong doing or neglect by the mayor.

The goal of this petition is to demand that the LAPD make a formal apology to Mr. Hornik and the citizens of Los Angeles County in general for their failure to recognize what was and is a very serious situation and a growing problem within the gay community and society as a whole.

Pause for one moment and ask yourself, what if it happened to you and no one heard your cries?

I’mma reblog this cause what MR. Hornik went through is inexcusable but when we talk about rape and sexual violence

………………..

yeah

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08 / 10

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// TW FOR RAPE//

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

theoceanandthesky:

there is a blog called rapeosexual.tumblr.com.

seriously, don’t look at it. DON’T. LOOK. AT. IT.

just please go to tumblr.com/block and report it or email support@tumblr.com

please. cuz i can’t even.

Already done. Reblog this to get this shit out of here.

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29 / 09

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the tart

pastthestorm:

blackamazon:

thetart:

My brain is still turning on that sexual abuse privilege list two weeks later. I’m putting a cut even though there’s nothing graphic or specific below it. I just know that I’m not always zoned for this conversation, especially not on a weekend that’s already been stressful.

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28 / 08

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karnythia:

lanomrah:

howtobenoladarling:

The Rape of the Negro Woman, 1632

appropriate title. Trans Atlantic Slavery began 1444.—-1619 British slavery in the colony began. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued. slavery officially ended for American blacks in 1945. (Using the U.S. because that’s the time frame I know best not for erasure)

Anyone who wants me to get over it can get over dees nuts!

Trans-Atlantic Slavery= A LONG MOtherfucking time.

Also why it is important that every black person watch Goodbye Uncle Tom http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3766149445318503265

yes it is about American slaves, but the treatment of the slaves is the focus. You may cringe, you may cry, you may not be able to watch it in its entirety but You need to. period. Because if slavery seems unreal to you that movie will bring it to life for you.

For anyone looking to read more in depth critiques of this Christiaen van Couwenbergh painting (actually titled Three White Men With A Negro Woman) & the phenomenon of rape being presented as heroism in art there’s this review on JSTOR of Diane Wolfthal’s Images of Rape: the “heroic” tradition and its alternatives

The painting is still on display Musée des Beaux-Arts Strasbourg, France and as you see in the JSTOR article has been described in the recent past as intriguing & comical. Personally, I find the difference in the depiction of the white men & the black woman to be about what I’d expect. She’s an object to them & to the viewer with very little attention paid to the details of her face. The men are the important people in the tableau after all. They’re having fun, and whatever has happened to her or is about to happen to her isn’t at all important as long as they enjoyed their bit of sport. This wasn’t rape by their lights since she couldn’t be raped. Anyone who wants to say this long over & no one thinks this way anymore should spend more time outside & less time with their head up their ass.

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28 / 08

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So in the DSK rape case, we’re supposed to believe that an African immigrant housekeeper suddenly decided to have sex with a wealthy white man 30 years her senior for 3 minutes on a bathroom floor in the middle of her work shift. To believe this story, you must know nothing about race, class, power and rape.

Sherry Wolf (via jessrosney)

I feel sick.

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I agree with the sentiment but ultimately the wording perturbs me.

Because the assumption is that we have to belief she wanted it, which is not the outcome.

The assumption is and what is very true , is that even if the circumstantial and physical evidence signal rape , that if the main damage to her IN THE CASE is proven to be false

that if a handful of people decide that she isn’t viable

That’s what will happen

That’s not knowing nothing, that’s knowing everything. And to say otherwise is to invent a world in which WOC & domestic workers & have never spoken the truth of their experience and Been ignored or used

And let’s be honest the number one film in the US thinks this VERY possibility is a joke

We don’t have to believe anything but what we have always believed

Black women and poor women are objects to be treated in whatever way causes the least discomfort for EVERYONE ELSE

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24 / 08

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masteradept:

jhameia:

Courage.

Truth

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13 / 08

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