We are just sexual objects to men: Lesbian couple speak out

A lesbian couple who were subjected to a horrific attack have hit out at Tory frontrunner Boris Johnson and criticised how they are seen as 'sexual objects'. 

Melania Geymonat, 28, and her American partner Chris, 29, said they were punched and robbed following an evening in West Hampstead, north west London, in the early hours of May 30. 

Ms Geymonat, a doctor from Uruguay and a Ryanair flight attendant, said that the incident was primarily 'an attack towards women, and then after homosexual women'.

Melania Geymonat (left), 28, and her American partner Chris (right), 29, said they were punched and robbed following an evening in West Hampstead, north west London

Melania Geymonat (left), 28, and her American partner Chris (right), 29, said they were punched and robbed following an evening in West Hampstead, north west London

In an interview with Channel 4 News she said the attackers firstly saw them as 'sexual objects' who were 'there to entertain them'. Her partner Chris said that a gang of young men saw they were a couple - as they were holding hands - and demanded they kiss before attacking the pair. 

When asked if she still feels safe in public, Chris said: 'If anything I'm more confident in myself because I know I will stand up for myself.'

Chris also said the reason their attack had caught so much attention was that the picture was 'very striking', depicting 'two white women who were tidily packaged into sympathetic victims'.  

When the interviewer brought up that Boris Johnson seemed to be the most likely person to be the next Prime Minister, and referenced comments he had previously made comparing homosexual marriage to 'bestiality', Chris said that the Tory frontrunner was not 'fit to lead anything, much less the United Kingdom'.

Melania Geymonat (right), 28, has released this image of her with her girlfriend Chris (left) covered in blood, after she claims she was attacked by a group of young men on a London bus

Melania Geymonat (right), 28, has released this image of her with her girlfriend Chris (left) covered in blood, after she claims she was attacked by a group of young men on a London bus 

She said that Johnson was not the only person ascending to power 'with his views and his ideology', and he was just 'one person in a growing climate.' 

Five teenagers aged between 15 and 18 have been charged with robbery and aggravated grievous bodily harm. All five have been bailed until early July.

Ms Geymonat said that she simply does not know if she will feel confident holding her partner's hand on the bus in the early hours of the morning anymore, revealing to The Times that her friends had told her to 'get the hell out of the country' following the incident.  

Speaking to the paper, Ms Geymonat said: 'In the first place they came towards us because we were seen as sexual objects. 

'It's not the first time this happens to me that I'm with a girlfriend or on a date and men tend to be excited by watching. 

Ms Geymonat is pictured before the attack, in which she appears to have sustained images to her face

Melania Geymonat (pictured) is now waiting to find out if her nose was broken in the vile attack

Miss Geymonat is pictured left before the incident, and right afterwards. She appears to have sustained a bruised eye

'That's one of the things that really annoyed me. I'm 28 so it has been ten years that I've seen this. We are not performing. It feels really humiliating to be treated [like that].' 

When asked if she thought the portrayal of lesbians as a male fantasy in pornography had an effect on some young men's views of gay women in real life, Ms Geymonat said she did think porn 'plays its own part' in contributing to the treatment of homosexual women as objects who exist for the sake of the male gaze.

Both women were taken to hospital for treatment for facial injuries.

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