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Simone Jerome Of Leopold Street Harassment Analysis

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Simone Jerome of Leopold Street, Georgetown relates his trials as a homosexual, "street harassment is just as bad when we pass and can be even worse and definitely different when we fail to pass the perpetrator/ perpetrators". Jerome in his earlier years of growing up had no knowledge of gender-based harassment. However, with maturity, Jerome finally became aware of the prejudice that is attached to being a Homosexual. According to Jerome, “as a child and a teenager, it was heavily based on hatred and disapproval of femininity, so all of the abuse and harassment I encountered was certainly gender base, but it wasn’t sexual”. “This was due to the fact that I only rarely wore women clothing and hairstyles to portray me as a young woman.” However,
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