When it was over, Graves bolted for the bathroom in an attempt to rinse off the experience. “By the time I figured out what he was doing, I just wanted him to finish and leave.…I didn’t want anybody else to notice what was going on, because I was so embarrassed by the whole thing,” she says. “He rubbed up on me with an erection and wouldn’t back off until, as best I could tell, he had ejaculated.” Graves stayed silent as the man assaulted her. The man had developed an obvious erection. “At some point I figured out the guy was straight,” she says. But everyone at Cobalt that night was dancing close, and Graves didn’t think much of it-until something shifted. “He was strong enough that I had to adjust my body to not get knocked over,” she says.

The interloper inserted a leg between Graves’ legs and latched his hands around her waist. “I was grinding with my friend, and this dude got up on me from behind,” says Graves, now 27. Later in the evening, another dancer decided to join in on the fun. But my friend is gay, and we’re just being ridiculous and having fun.” “When we go out, my friend says things like, ‘Trash me!,’ and I play along. “We were being kind of raunchy,” she says. So when she headed out to Dupont Circle gay bar Cobalt one night in 2006, Graves and a male friend hit the crowded dance floor hard. It used to be that Jessica Graves was always up for a dance party.

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