Walking back to the tube station after the show, the streets were full of drunk, high-spirited stragglers. “I was at the theatre in central London on the evening of Pride a few years ago. When I shared this story in a group online recently, I was overwhelmed by responses from women with similar experiences. Shaken, I walked away and put the incident to the back of my mind, where it has remained for 20 years.
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In this circumstance - because the perpetrator was seemingly not interested in me sexually - I was at a loss as to how to respond. Stifling my fear and disgust with an awkward laugh, I felt like I had no script to explain what had happened - straight boys and men had been inappropriate with me in the past but I had assumed the motivation was sexual desire. The very camp gay bar manager put his hand up my skirt, rubbed my crotch, and asked if I was a virgin. The first time it happened to me, I was 16 years old and working in a hotel. But there’s something the #MeToo movement has yet to shed light on: the sexual harassment and assault of women by gay men. From the rich, famous, and powerful to the young, average, and unfamous, countless men have been called out.
#MeToo has shed a light on men’s ongoing refusal to respect women’s boundaries around the world. Cologne Germany Gay Pride Parade (Image: Wikipedia/2014)