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  • one of my senior servicemen touch me behind and told me that you are so lucky because you are in the military.

  • If you were in a prison, you already raped and then I fainted.

  • I am Tehran.

  • I'm an artist.

  • I'm gay and I'm an Anglican.

  • I have many identities.

  • Mhm.

  • The text is based on the testimonies of four gay servicemen.

  • This is my testimony.

  • I was forcibly committed to a mental asylum.

  • This was because I continuously suffered from sexual assert and harassment from senior servicemen during my obligate story military service.

  • Yeah, really?

  • I practice a lot of marching, shooting guns and throwing grenade.

  • I was scared.

  • And also I told myself that I must not tell about my sexual orientation during my military service because I feel like it is the death sentence.

  • Mhm.

  • Every 10 pm we must turn off the light for the first time.

  • When a few senior servicemen, uh, touched me, but it spread out like the virus to the other people.

  • My senior servicemen grabbed my arms and legs and they kissed my neck and they pulled down my underwear.

  • I, uh, shouted them.

  • Don't touch me, Please don't.

  • Please don't And I repeatedly thought that I was inferior.

  • I was inferior.

  • I was looked very Yeah, mhm because I'm gay.

  • That's why they told me that you tempted the other service man.

  • And you let them touch you.

  • Yeah.

  • Mhm.

  • I was forcibly asked to take the anti the president peel two times every day.

  • I couldn't control my body and mind properly.

  • Uh huh.

  • Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  • Mm hmm.

  • Mm.

  • Once I could know about other people's stories, I thought that we are connected and it is our issues.

  • I hope that gay servicemen also in the military and treated with respect Mm, yeah.

  • Mhm.

  • Yeah, yeah.

  • Mhm.

  • Yeah.

  • Mm, yeah.

one of my senior servicemen touch me behind and told me that you are so lucky because you are in the military.

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