The Reluctant Lesbian

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All states passed laws against marital rape by 1993 (with some exceptions per state), but while some of the legal language employs the gender-neutral "spouse" to explain assaults within a marriage, other states, like Alabamaand California, default to "wife" for victim and "husband" for attacker.

Loehn, says the Northampton police performed a "thorough investigation" and treated the victim "in a sensitive manner. Not because I was a lesbian, I didn’t even know that there was such a word and I still fancied boys. Sarah, 32, and her girlfriend had been dating long-distance for about a year—Sarah in California, her partner in North Carolina—when they decided they wanted to live together.Over 10 years later, same-sex rape on college campuses is just starting to be quantified on a national level. The first of two Dee Rees movies in our top ten, Bessie is a biopic of legendary bisexual blues singer Bessie Smith.

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When female victims of female assaults do pursue legal action, gender bias can severely hinder their ability to accurately report sexual violence. Because we were together, I thought that she had the right to have sex with me the way she wanted," Sarah explains. Freaked out, she rushes to her Uncle Jonas' side for comfort, only to learn that there's a family tradition of all the men on his side sharing new female family members!

percent), the most striking difference came down to the likelihood of survivors to report the incident: 30 percent of women assaulted by another woman told no one, compared to 25 of women who didn't report an assault by a man.

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