In the Gay Wg of L.A. Men's Central Jail, It's Not Shanks and Mugggs But Hand-Sewn Gowns and Tears - LA Weekly

Contents:

• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE
• 'HOMO-CHOLO' RAPPER IS CHALLENGG NOTNS OF BEG GAY, LATO AND MACHO
• REVIEWS
• IN THE GAY WG OF L.A. MEN'S CENTRAL JAIL, IT'S NOT SHANKS AND MUGGGS BUT HAND-SEWN GOWNS AND TEARS

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay. “Bee the gangs, if there’s even the spicn that you’re gay, you pay for wh your life.

” In this particular prison, San Francis Gotera, the east of the Central Amerin untry, gang culture was not the only source of vilent homophobia.

The state had effectively ced ntrol of daily life si Gotera to church lears, who preach that homosexualy is a s as grave as vlence. 8—follows Geovany, a gay man who worked as a hman for Barr 18 and left the gang 2016. Livg the isolatn cell wh his partner and other gay mat, he grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past.

MEXI'S MOST FAMO GAY SNDAL SPOTLIGHTED A CENTURY LATER, NETFLIX MOVIE

Homosexualy remas taboo and vlence and discrimatn agast LGBTQ people is rife.

“How is possible for a untry to have s moral pass so broken that homosexualy and murr n feel the same?

'HOMO-CHOLO' RAPPER IS CHALLENGG NOTNS OF BEG GAY, LATO AND MACHO

“But the tth is that they are already nmned: they’ve left the gang; they’ve lived wh former members of other gangs; and they’ve lived openly as gay people, ” she says. The homosexual is the same, ” says a pastor one terview laid over a scene of him preachg to rapturo crowds the prison urtyard.

) Martez says the film is not an attempt to reem the subjects “jt bee they’re gay, jt bee they n show love or tenrns.

Ma famo as the openly gay dg lord picted "Nars, " the real-life Hélmer "Pacho" Herrera took the Cali Cartel to unparalleled heights of power and wealth the the ath of Pablo Esbar the send season of Netflix’s Nars, the show had to look for a new set of characters to fill out the seri. Luckily, the wrers had a ma-to-f character the flashy, btal, and openly gay Pacho Herrera. In the show, Hélmer “Pacho” Herrera b the supreme self-nfince tak to be openly gay a world of thls gangsters along wh a sual approach to extreme vlence, embodied a scene where he has a rival ripped apart by motorcycl.

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Acrdg to a journalist who wrote a book about the rtel, William Rempel, he was openly gay.

As his wife, Amada (Mabel Cana), begs to grow spic of his whereabouts, Ignac begs to velop a fatal attractn to a man named Evaristo Rivas (Eiano Zura), whom he troduc to his clanste club of homosexual film’s tle — s origal Spanish is "El Baile los 41" — refers to the night of Nov.

But a sndal ensued when ial reports placed a 42nd man attendance, and the story spread that was la Torre, the print’s son--law, markg the first time homosexualy was openly discsed the Mexin media. "What would have happened if Ignac was not disvered as a gay man?

IN THE GAY WG OF L.A. MEN'S CENTRAL JAIL, IT'S NOT SHANKS AND MUGGGS BUT HAND-SEWN GOWNS AND TEARS

He would have been one of the important Mexin figur om our history, but he was taken away om that bee he was gay. NetflixAs someone who is nsistently the procs of “re-tg myself” — a value he and his wife, Diana Vázquez, would like to pass on to their young children — Herrera unrstands the potential ntroversy surroundg his cisn to play a gay character. Cast & crew201157m"Homeboy" exam the liv of several gay Lato men livg and around the Los Angel area who are eher former gang members or who are currently active gangs.

Read all"Homeboy" exam the liv of several gay Lato men livg and around the Los Angel area who are eher former gang members or who are currently active gangs. All that and more are discsed openly and hontly Do D's documentary, Homeboy, an -pth look at the liv of gay gang and former gang you n image, the men, all of whom are Lato and om the Los Angel area, faced tremendo prsure to f to gangland's ultra-macho world, but they also often felt isolated off the streets, too, gay bars and clubs where race and class prent their own the men, and many women, as well, also felt like they had no other optn but gangs. Actor and rapper Deadlee is g his art to turn stereotyp on their Los Angel rint is a self-proclaimed “homo-cholo” – referrg to the fact that he's gay and a "cholo, " a term ed to refer to Mexin-Amerins who intify wh gang culture.

A., where he started workg as a unselor for homels homosexual teens, many of whom had been kicked out of their hom after their fai found out they were gay. “After I me out to my fay and iends, I started hangg out Wt Hollywood – the mec for gays. ”“One you're gay the Lato muny, often the nversatn stops right there, " he saidDeadlee got his start when he met an fluential mic producer named Goo.