The grim tth of beg gay prison | Sadhbh Walshe | The Guardian

Contents:

• I THOUGHT BEG GAY WAS A S UNTIL I SAW MY FRIEND SUFFER  PRISON
• [WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• MANY PRISON MAT ARE 'GAY FOR THE STAY'
• GAY MAT TIE THE KNOT SI CYPS PRISON
• 'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

I THOUGHT BEG GAY WAS A S UNTIL I SAW MY FRIEND SUFFER  PRISON

More than 78 percent intified themselv as heterosexual, and 8 percent intified themselv as homosexual; slightly more than 13 percent intified themselv as bisexual. The maximum-secury un had more self-intified homosexuals and bisexuals than the other two stutns. The study did not fd an elevated rate of nsensual homosexual activy by the mat pared to the amount which they engaged prr to rceratn.

[WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY

One-fourth of the prison sample dited they had engaged some form of nsensual homosexual activy while rcerated; 18 percent had engaged homosexual activy prr to rceratn. The -prison homosexual activy found this study was not as high as that reported by other studi.

Homosexualy is a choice, jt look at the prisons, Republin nrosurgeon Ben Carson said on CNN. He also argued that homosexualy is a choice, rather than blogil. "Bee a lot of people who go to prison go to prison straight -- and when they e out, they're gay.

We’ll jump to the pot here: There is no nclive evince to support Carson’s claim that "a lot of people" make a swch om heterosexual to homosexual while prison. Further, the medil muny tends to nclu that homosexualy is not a matter of choice -- notably the Amerin Psychologil Associatn. Of those 24, 18 changed om straight to bisexual, three changed om bisexual to straight, and one each changed om bisexual to gay, gay to bisexual, and gay to straight.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

It’s possible that people go to prison unaware of their sexualy, and then once they are exposed to homosexual behavr as an mate, they realize that they are gay or bisexual, Helen Eigenberg, who also studi prison sexualy as a profsor at the Universy of Tennsee at Chattanooga, said an terview wh PoliFact. They might thk that jt bee they played a role a homosexual act, they are now gay, which is not necsarily te.

Greg Herek, a psychology profsor at the Universy of California Davis who studi sexual orientatn, poted to a natnally reprentative study that shows the vast majory of gay men and women do not perceive their sexual orientatn as a rult of choice.

MANY PRISON MAT ARE 'GAY FOR THE STAY'

People n change their behavr -- such as engagg homosexual behavr prison -- but that do not equate to a change orientatn, Bailey, the Northwtern rearcher, told PoliFact. Carson said, "A lot of people who go to prison straight, and when they e out they’re gay.

Rpected scientists nsir settled that homosexualy is not a matter of choice. CNN, "Ben Carson: Prisons prove beg gay is a choice, " March 4, 2015. PoliFact, "Tim Pawlenty says scientists are " dispute" over whether beg gay is a choice, " July 13, 2011.

PoliFact, "Tim Pawlenty says there's no scientific ncln that beg gay is geic, " July 13, 2011. Washgton Post, "What experts say about Ben Carson’s turng-gay--prison claim, " March 4, 2015.

GAY MAT TIE THE KNOT SI CYPS PRISON

Sexual Rearch and Social Policy, "Demographic, Psychologil, and Social Characteristics of Self-Intified Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults a US Probabily Sample, " September 2010. Prison homosexualy and s effect on post-prison sexual behavr. Although there has grown up to a nsirable lerature on sex experienc prison, ltle has been wrten on the post-prison behavral patterns of those who, voluntarily or voluntarily, bee iated to homosexualy while rcerated.

42) suggts that sexual experienc prison may have permanent effects on the liv of some of the participants: "Can such men return to nventnal heterosexual liv after release, or has the experience of beg forced to acts of passive homosexualy been so trmatic as to preclu the rumptn of sexual relatns wh members of the oppose sex?

" In a search for an answer to his qutn, the prent paper studi ex-prisoners whose iatn to homosexualy occurred durg prison. Male Homosexual Preference: Where, When, Why? Gay men as victims of nonnsensual sex.

'PASSAG' DIRECTOR NOUNC 'DANGERO' NC-17 RATG ON A FILM PICTG A GAY LOVE STORY

I also realized that Michael might be gay and therefore, acrdg to my way of thkg at the time, shared some blame for what he was gog through. “You have a spir of homosexualy. For some reason, Michael uld not see that this person was reactg to Michael’s homosexualy.

“You n’t play around wh homosexualy and jt thk you’ll only attract people you like. I was church listeng to a visg preacher give a sermon about godls when he spotted two gay men stg the pews.

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THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. The exprsn is “gay for the stay”. Strangely, the lbian women I knew si (there were many, but not as many as one would thk) were totally disgted by the ia of a prison relatnship, thkg that their sexualy would be enuragement of such relatnships was overt – Holloway prison has a far higher than average rat of gay female ctodial staff who would openly favour and facilate such relatnships.

Tontian, a Cyprt, says that after beg released om Cyps' central prisons plex two years ago, his longg for Da Costa upled wh his fay's rejectn of his homosexualy and disenchantment over bleak job prospects drove him to break the law aga jt so he uld rejo the Brazilian natnal back prison. Their bond grew stronger after they were granted permissn to take part Cyps' gay pri para unr requts to jotly take part prison activi, cludg workg together at the facily's archive, culmated a succsful petn to share a cell.

In 1984, when Calv Burde was awag sentencg for allegedly stabbg his gay lover to ath, the prosecutg attorney enuraged the jury his closg remarks to award Burde the ath penalty, rather than life prison, on the grounds that sendg a gay man to prison was ak to sendg a kid to a ndy store. His ath sentence was later overturned (mostly bee Burde's public fenr had slept through much of his trial), but the homophobic thkg – that prison is some kd of paradise for gay men – lgers realy of life prison for homosexuals and transgenr dividuals do not appear to reflect this myth.