Even though it happened 20 years ago, Sharif Rangnekar still remembers that assault. The pain, the fear, the shock, the shame. Back then, sex between men was illegal, and there was a whole lot of stigma attached to even talking about it. Moreover, men are supposed to be “big and strong”, so to admit to being a victim of sexual assault was to go against the grain of what was supposed to be masculine. But, he said, “I couldn’t even go to the police because what would I say? So, for years I couldn’t and didn’t talk about it.”
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