In a New York Times Magazine feature in 2000, Jennifer Egan wrote glowingly of the rowdy chat rooms that allowed gay teens to become mired in the same drama as their straight compatriots.
According to a 2010 CDC report, gay men experience similar rates of rape by an intimate partner as their straight compatriots, but when you factor in sexual violence other than rape, the rate more than doubles: 40percentt of gay men and 47percentt of bisexual men, versus 21percentt of heterosexual men over their lifetimes (which includes all encounters, whether from an "intimate partner" or not).
Worse was to come as AB de Villiers hit a full-toss straight to his compatriot du Plessis off the last ball of the fifth over and Mandeep Singh was run out off the first ball of the sixth to leave the Royal Challengers 34 for three.
Blewett, who seems to have settled in quickly at Nottingham following his miserable time with Yorkshire two years ago, followed his championship century against Durham last week with a rapid unbeaten 59 which included a straight six off his compatriot Marsh, while Malcolm beat off stiff competition to be the most expensive Leicestershire bowler.
It is hard to believe she began her run by beating her compatriot Zheng in straight sets, shocked the fourth seed, Agnieszka Radwanska, turned over the 28th seed, Roberta Vinci, without fuss and beat the Wimbledon semi-finalist Lucie Safarova – all in straight sets.
Were Williams to win the title for a third straight year, she would emulate compatriot Chris Evert, who won the US Open four times in succession from 1975 to 1978.
When the formidable list of my new compatriots — several with surnames straight from Concord's history (including an Emerson) — arrived in the mail, I was surprised to find that it included only a handful of my mother's close friends.
The US beach volleyball player bid the Olympics farewell after she and her partner Kerri Walsh Jennings won their third Olympic gold, beating their compatriots April Ross and Jennifer Kessy in straight sets, 21-16, 21-16, at Horseguards parade.
Ferrer was again in scintillating form, beating his compatriot Marcel Granollers in straight sets.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also advanced, beating his French compatriot Jérémy Chardy in straight sets, but the most sentimental French journey turned sour when Gaël Monfils failed to convert on four match points against Tommy Robredo in the fourth set and ended up losing in five.
The Briton returned to Court Four, where earlier he saw off friend and British compatriot Jonny O'Mara in straight sets in the boys' singles.
