A few years ago, I talked to a guy his mid-30’s on Grdr who said he wanted to have ndomls sex wh me. He assured me he was on Tvada. I cled but kept touch. When I started wrg my first Tvada story late 2013, I wanted first-hand acunts of PrEP ers so I reached back out to him an attempt to terview him. He flaked on me multiple tim and I didn’t hear om him aga until a few weeks ago. He h me up on Facebook to tell me he missed our terviews bee he was on meth at the time. Furthermore, he had jt gotten out of Rikers. He told me if I ever wanted to publish somethg about what ’s like to be a (whe) gay man that jail, I should h him up. I agreed immediately, met him for bnch, and had him tell me his story. He asked to rema anonymo. The first-person acunt below is the rult of our terview.
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WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE GAY RIKERS
* rikers island gay unit *
He told me if I ever wanted to publish somethg about what ’s like to be a (whe) gay man that jail, I should h him up. I know that the more feme gay guys and the trans women have (nsensual?
They kd of received special ’ culture general don’t like homosexualy, but the mat let pass if you look like a girl. The people that I was around basilly figured out that I was gay—I wasn’t talkg about my wife or girliend—and I didn’t ny . ”I had an easier time, probably, than most gay guys there.
” People were always talkg about like was jt about to Rikers, homosexualy isn’t accepted but forcible gay sex is.
NEW YORK SET TO CLOSE JAIL UN FOR GAYS
I have no ia why they wanted to target me, unls was related to me beg gay. 30, 2005For at least three s, gay and transgenr mat had their own hog un si Rikers Island's sprawlg jail plex. To be admted, all a new mate had to do was clare homosexualy, or appear to be transgenr, and ask to be kept out of Rikers's ma ia, cy rrectn officials said, was to protect vulnerable mat who might otherwise bee victims of discrimatn or sexual abe the rough world of the general mate populatn.
The only other metropolan jail to separate gay and transgenr mat is Los Angel County Jail.