WATCH: @ABC News: DJ @zeke_thomas goes public; appears in PSA for sexual assault awareness month: https://t.co/cWJShL4uLo http://pic.twitter.com/pOddKTjFHT
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- Josh "Zeke" Thomas opens up with The CUT on Tuesday about being raped
- He met a guy on Grindr and since the first date went well, he felt no qualms about meeting up with the guy again.
- They met at a bar, where Thomas's date drugged him and then took him to his own home and raped him.
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“My ass was destroyed. Destroyed. I’m bleeding,” Thomas told The Cut. “And I’m just like — terrified. I can’t move. I didn’t move from my apartment for two days. I didn’t move. I didn’t talk to anybody. I froze.”
Thomas later saw that the man who raped him had either deleted his account from Grindr or blocked him on the app.
Thomas told The Cut that he got into drugs as a means to cope, and would tell people about his assault when he was high. He told his parents (his father is NBA star Isaiah Thomas) when he was high on mushrooms and they helped him get treatment with a doctor and a therapist.
He's opening up about his sexual assault now to help other men, and gay men in particular, who have been sexually assaulted to feel less alone.
“No one ever talks about this,” Thomas told The Cut. “Especially men — gay men. It’s like, is it real, did it happen, is it believable?”
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This is crazy and sad but I'm glad he is taking initiative to talk about the issue. Many people don't think man can get sexual assaulted but we do. Grindr is dangerous AF. What was your worse Grindr experience?
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