Do D speaks wh gay men who found closets, and sometim love, street gangs.
Contents:
- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
- THE PRICE OF BEG GAY THE MS-13 GANG? DEATH
- 'UNFIVABLE' DIRECTOR: 'IF THE GANG KNOWS YOU'RE GAY, THEY KILL YOU'
- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
- GAYS THE GANG
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
A new documentary, 'Unfivable,' follows Geovany, a gay former gang hman, who grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past. * gay gang member *
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.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
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Livg the isolatn cell wh his partner and other gay mat, he grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past. 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? “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. LONG BEACH >> Serg Romero knew would be difficult for his mother to accept that the 37-year-old was gay, but still shocked and hurt him to learn she preferred her son to be an active gang member than to be gay.
THE PRICE OF BEG GAY THE MS-13 GANG? DEATH
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“For her, I was more of a man as a gang member than beg gay, ” said Romero as he sat a Los Angel ffee shop tellg his story of beg an active member of a notor street gang and gay. He is one of the men featured a documentary, “Homeboy, ” on Lato gang members who are gay that will be screened this weekend at the QFilm Ftival, Long Beach’s longt-nng film ftival prentg narrative featur, documentari and short films about the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) muny. Gay gang members who are Lato gangs not only have to al wh the stereotypil machismo seen Lato culture, D said, they have to ntend wh the hyper-mascule posturg wh the gang microculture.
“Before social media and Facebook, I had to post fliers gay bars orr to fd people willg to talk to me, ” D said.
Wh an timated 9 ln Amerins intifyg as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to a 2011 report om the Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law, gays are part of nearly every aspect of life, even wh the gang life. However, an exact number of openly gay gang members is difficult to e by sce many do not disclose their sexual orientatn.
'UNFIVABLE' DIRECTOR: 'IF THE GANG KNOWS YOU'RE GAY, THEY KILL YOU'
A soclogist spent two years terviewg gay gang members. While some were the closet and others were openly gay, all were forced to reckon wh an environment of hypermasculy. * gay gang member *
It took Manuel — he wanted to e only his first name — several years to adm he was gay. Manuel spent nearly two years Cho Instutn for Men on a dg nvictn the ’90s and said he did engage homosexual activi behd bars but was nial about the fact he was gay.
“I kept sayg to myself I wasn’t gay bee I had a girliend and was only dog that bee I was prison, ” said the 33-year-old man who liv the Inland Empire.
While most gay gang members operate wh tradnal gangs, there is a group ma up solely of gay crimals.
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
Gay men sometim jo or form gangs, which may be surprisg. Vansa Panfil unvers the liv of men gay, straight, and hybrid gangs. * gay gang member *
The Gay Boy Gangsters are part of a group of prison gangs that have spng up on the sensive needs yards, acrdg to Richard Valmar, a gang expert and retired Los Angel Police Department gang tective. Those yards at California state prisons are signated for mat requirg special protectn, such as certa sex offenrs, rmants and homosexuals.
“What happens is you get the guys on the special needs yards who know how to be gang members and they form the gangs, ” Srrano said, addg that the ma reason Gay Boy Gangsters members formed this alliance is their sexual preference. Manuel has been livg as a gay man for nearly a and is a mted relatnship.
Rs’ and Manuel’s fai ially grappled wh acceptg their sons as gay, but both say they now have great relatnships wh them, pecially their mothers. “That’s where I had my first open homosexual enunter, ” Romero said. 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.
GAYS THE GANG
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