Gay humiliation
HRW: Chechen officials complicit in humiliation of gay men
A report published on Friday by the US-founded, international non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has revealed that at least two high-ranking officials in Russia's southern region of Chechnya participated in the torture and humiliation of lgbtq+ men .
From February to April "police rounded up men they suspected of being male lover, held them in private locations for days or even weeks, and tortured, humiliated and starved them, forcing them to hand over information about other men who might be gay," HRW said in its report. "Police hit all detainees viciously and repeatedly electrocuted them."
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The report was based on interviews with locals, as well as six former detainees.
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HRW said that, while there own been no new arrests reported in recent weeks, several people are still detained in unofficial prisons.
The Chechen men "remain at wonderful risk of being hounded by Chechen authorities or their own relatives as long as they endure in Russia," HRW said.
LGBT activists have reporte
The Anti-Humiliation Principle and Queer Marriage
abstract. Bruce Ackerman’s volume on the civil rights revolution argues that the Second Reconstruction was centrally concerned with the principle of institutionalized humiliation. Ackerman inveighs against the proof that we have turned away from this “anti-humiliation principle” in our current civil-rights jurisprudence, with the exception of the jurisprudence surrounding same-sex marriage. While I generally agree with Ackerman’s account, I assume a closer look at gay-rights jurisprudence might further illuminate his analysis in two ways. I first argue that the anti-humiliation principle in the gay-rights context actually extends successfully beyond the same-sex marriage debate. I then contend that this jurisprudence also suggests that the mechanisms that Ackerman describes for establishing the anti-humiliation doctrine need to be supplemented. I suggest that greater use of the civil-rights trial may be a crucial way in which courts might discern the existence of institutionalized humiliation, taking the landmark trial in Perry v. Schwarzenegger as my case study.
author. Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Commandment, New
One Gay Man’s Experience with Sexual Humiliation
ILLUSTRATION BY LYNAS
Forty years ago I stood in the center of a crowded room with a nervous beam on my face. It was lunch time, and the office canteen was packed with noisy colleagues in a festive mood.
Decorations and a sumptuous buffet table lent a festive air to the gathering, which was a farewell party for me.
I had prepared what I thought were some appropriate remarks about how rewarding my five years had been working with the people who surrounded me. Never good at public speaking and a shy person by world, I dreaded the attention that was being lavished on me at that moment. I hoped after I delivered my speech, which had been scribbled on the back on an envelope, that the crowd would disperse and I could somehow melt into the milling throng of well-wishers.
PERSPECTIVE: #MeToo
My serve was in Southeast Asia with an international group, and it had been interesting and rewarding. I had been told, via performance reports, that I had carried out my duties in an exemplary manner and, as a reward, I was creature offered another assignment with greater responsibility in a neighboring country. Now was the
Rutgers Suicide: Internet Humiliation Trauma for Teen
Sept. 30, 2010— -- When Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi jumped to his death last week from the George Washington Bridge, he may have been reacting to a constellation of factors related to sexuality, universal bullying and humiliation that put adolescents and adolescent adults at a particularly high risk for suicide, mental health experts said.
Clementi, a shy, quiet 18-year-old and talented violinist who grew up in Ridgewood, N.J., is believed to have been caught on camera during an intimate encounter with a fresh man in his dorm room. His roommate, 18-year-old Dharun Ravi, allegedly streamed video of the two on the Internet and announced his alleged surreptitious behavior on the social networking site Twitter.
Three days later, Clementi posted a short farewell message on his Facebook page: "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry." His family subsequently confirmed the suicide.
According to the 2005 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey, teens who identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, or who inform having any same-sex sexual contact, are four times more likely to possess attempted suicide in the past ye
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