e has been showing up in more films, and on television, opening the eyes of the public viewers to something that has long been put on the back burner so to speak. Some of those movies include Sleepers, and Pulp Fiction. One movie in particular that displayed a very disturbing rape scene was American History X. It is in this movie that you see the main character, Derek get violently raped by another man in the shower. It is a very disturbing scene that you would think would make one feel very bad for the victim. But instead, one is drawn into the fact that a man is engaging in a violent attack with another man, making the assumption right away that “oh that’s disgusting. Their gay!” As far as we know, neither Derek nor this other man raping him is gay. In most cases, men that rape do this because they are trying to prove a point, or trying to get a message across. The fact is, rapists who rape men have been proven to be heterosexual in 98% of cases reported. There are many reasons that male victims do not come forward and report being raped. After talking to a speaker from the Gay/Lesbian Alliance here on campus, I found out some interesting information. One of the biggest reason’s males do not come forward and report being raped is the fear of being perceived as homosexual. However, male sexual assault has nothing to do with the sexual orientation of the attacker or the victim, just as a sexual assault does not make the victim survivor gay, bisexual or heterosexual. It is a violent crime that affects heterosexual men as much as gay men. The phrase "homosexual rape," for instance, which is often used by uninformed persons to designate male-male rape, camouflages the fact that the majority of the rapists are not generally homosexual. According to the man that I spoke to, Gay’s are sick and tired of hearing about male rape. “It seems that every time someone hears about a man being raped by another male,...
