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I went to the Rosslyn Movie Festival yesterday at Gateway Park, where every Friday from yesterday to the first week of September they’re going to show movies from the 90’s. I get there and this weird guy would not stop staring at me. He sat there with this blank expression on his face, cigarette dangling […]

In an Afghan-owned grocery store that sells Middle Eastern and South Asian products. I was shopping, minding my own business, and this absolutely scuzzy sleazy-looking guy, unshaven, unkempt, shirttail partly hanging out–you get the picture–says behind me “Hey, beauty, where are you going?” I ignored him, of course. He followed me through an aisle full […]

Not directly harassment but objectification. I’m a single guy and I was at the AYD Date Auction last week to benefit the Arlington Food Bank. Two gentlemen standing near me were conversing when I overhear #1 say to #2 “Well I’m not the one lying about where I am tonight.” #2 pulls out phone and […]

I was walking on King Street toward the metro station when this guy honked at me. I didn’t recognize him, so I kept walking. He then pulled over and motioned for me to get into his car. I didn’t want him to follow me, so I ducked into the next store and waited a few […]

Cross posted from Stop Street Harassment: In November of 2007 I accompanied my dad on a business trip to DC because he had a companion ticket and I’d never been to DC before. On my last night there, I was at the Pentagon City Mall when this man approached me and started trying to ‘pick […]