by Zoë Pollock
A reader felt that domestic violence is an under-addressed problem among gays. Conner Habbib shares his own personal account and the psychological trauma that followed:
It ends with a night when a man – just barely a man, mostly a boy, full of jokes and laughter and passionate opinions – held me down on the thick black asphalt of the parking lot by my neck. It ends with him driving his knee into my stomach, bursting parts of my intestines and telling me he should kill me. When I stood up, he punched me in the side and broke my rib. We said we were in love.
The Dish 