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Contents:

• EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS
• 'CHECK IT' IS A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AMERI'S ONLY ALL-GAY GANG
• YOUNG THUG AND FRIENDS CGHT WATCHG GAY FREAKY MOVI IN STUD
• BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• LEARN ABOUT THE GAY GANG THAT SUPPORTS S MEMBERS BEHD BARS
• GAYNGSTER
• MY GAY PRISON GANG FIGHTS NEO-NAZIS
• DWEN CURRY THE ‘ORIGAL GAY GANGSTER’ SHAR HER STORY ON AMERIN GANGSTER: TRAP QUEENS
• GAYS THE GANG
• ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS

Much of the show revolv around Davor dog his bt to keep his homosexualy hidn om his fay… not to mentn his enemi.

We’re not sure how Thugger’s fiancée feels about him watch gay flicks wh his boys but we’re gog to have to give him major si-eye for this one! 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.

'CHECK IT' IS A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AMERI'S ONLY ALL-GAY GANG

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

YOUNG THUG AND FRIENDS CGHT WATCHG GAY FREAKY MOVI IN STUD

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. Livg the isolatn cell wh his partner and other gay mat, he grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past. “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.

“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.

BT GAY ROMANCE MAFIA/YAKUZA/ORGANIZED CRIME

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.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

However, an exact number of openly gay gang members is difficult to e by sce many do not disclose their sexual orientatn. 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.

LEARN ABOUT THE GAY GANG THAT SUPPORTS S MEMBERS BEHD BARS

“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. 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. 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.

GAYNGSTER

She told him that the fact she uld be around so many homophobic men who nstantly shun her and give her dirty looks and still mata her feme attu shows she stead is the strong one. For stance, if someone was around who was homophobic and a known “gay basher, ” the was “rabow ey, ” which meant: be alert, watch this guy. While I do not advote gangs, I do believe we have to stick together and protect one another, bee the rrectnal officers will not, and even enurage or allow prisoners to harass, timidate, rob and asslt transgenr and gay prisoners.

There are many stereotyp of and assumptns about street gangs, jt as there are many stereotyp and assumptns about gay men.

MY GAY PRISON GANG FIGHTS NEO-NAZIS

In movi and televisn, some of the most regnizable gay characters have been portrayed as effemate or weak; they’re “fashnistas” or “gay bt iends.

DWEN CURRY THE ‘ORIGAL GAY GANGSTER’ SHAR HER STORY ON AMERIN GANGSTER: TRAP QUEENS

All were between the ag of 18 and 28; the majory were men of lor; and all lived or near Columb, Oh, which has been referred to as a “Midwtern gay mec.

The experience, which took place over the urse of more than two years, allowed me to explore the tensns they felt between gang life and gay manhood. Then there were what I ll “hybrid” gangs, which featured a mix of straight, gay, lbian and bisexual members, but wh straight people still the majory. Bee even the ia of a gay man beg a gang fli the face of nventnal thought, the gang members I spoke wh had to nstantly rist or subvert a range of stereotyp and expectatns.

I was openly gay – part of the “fay, ” as some of them put – and bee I was a stunt nductg rearch for a book, they were nfint that I stood a better chance of accurately reprentg them than any “straight novelist” or journalist. The gay men straight gangs I spoke wh knew precisely what was expected of them: be willg to fight wh rival gangs, monstrate toughns, date or have sex wh women and be fancially pennt. So most stayed the closet, ntug to project heterosexualy, while discreetly meetg other gay men unrground gay scen or over the ter.

GAYS THE GANG

In “hybrid” gangs (those wh a sizable mory of gay, lbian or bisexual people) or all-gay gangs, the men I terviewed were held to many of the same standards.

Men gay gangs were expected to be able to build a public reputatn as a gay man – what they lled beg “known. ” Beg “known” means you’re able to achieve many mascule ials – makg money, beg taken serly, gag stat, lookg good – but as an openly gay man. Cght between not wantg themselv or others to be prsured to act mascule all the time, but also not wantg to be read as visibly gay or weak (which uld ve challeng), ristance to beg seen as a “punk” or a phover was cril.

‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN

It all seemed to e om a sire to upend damagg cultural stereotyp of gay men as weak, of black men as “adbeats” and offenrs, and of gang members as vlent thugs. One of the most pellg fdgs of my study was what happened when the gay gang members were risively lled “fag” or “faggot” by straight men bars, on b, schools or on the streets.

But was important to them to be able to nstct an inty as a man who wasn’t gog to be msed wh – a man who also happened to be gay. ” They were also willg to fend others rid as “fags” public, even though this uld signal that they were gay themselv.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

The ebacks challenge many of the assumptns ma about gay men – that they lack nerve, that they’re unwillg to physilly fight.

It also munited a belief that was clearly nonnegotiable: a fundamental right to not be bothered simply for beg gay. In the US, the Gayngster is often a Sry Black Man or Lato, though 's not entirely unmon to see someone Whe, pecially if they are Italian or Irish.