Unseen Footage of Kg Von Claimg He’s Gay To Be Placed Prison Protective Ctody

Contents:

• 10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
• ‘BEG GAY PRISON IS TEN TIM HARR’: INMAT TELL OF ABE, USE OF SOLARY
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
• VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
• [WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY
• WHAT ’S REALLY LIKE TO BE OPENLY GAY PRISON
• KG VON TELLS POLICE HE'S 'GAY' IN RURFACED JAIL VIO

10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS

The thought of beg a gay man prison sred the livg daylights out of me. Worse, I feared that bee I was a gay man, I’d be an easy target for abe. Moreover, they also knew that I was gay.

What follows are 10 thgs I learned om the perspective of a gay man and ex-mate at a feral prison mp. My hope sharg this is to offer a realistic snapshot to gay men who get sent to prison.

Some men do go gay for the stay too but nobody the term “gay”. Fally, gay mat ually stick together.

‘BEG GAY PRISON IS TEN TIM HARR’: INMAT TELL OF ABE, USE OF SOLARY

But even then, don’t expect fair treatment – particularly if someone wh thory don’t like gay people. Not to be stereotypil but as a gay man, I had some refed tast food before gettg sent away.

As a gay man, I prid myself my pearly wh. Remember when I said gay sex is unmon at prison? The one advantage of beg a gay prisoner is that you are sometim approached for a barter.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

I’ve been asked if gay men have prison boyiends. First, the relatnships are almost always kept on the DL, even if you are openly gay. Other observatns as a gay prisoner:.

Some are gay and some aren't.

VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

Regardls if you are gay or straight, dog time prison is extremely hard. When you are gay, 's a ltle different. A Lato gay man, Guzman says an terview that he was often sent to solary nfement for fendg himself and other LGBTQ+ mat agast other mat and prison staff.

“But beg gay prison mak ten tim harr. Populatn who intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual.

“Beg gay, you have to be on your to, ” Guzman says. “Beg Lato and gay prison is very difficult, ” Guzman said at the event. Over time, he me to see himself as an advote and activist, providg physil protectn to other gay mat.

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

Ten years ago, Rafeal “Nephew” Bankston land solary nfement San Quent State Prison for refg a gay cellmate. “Where I grew up, we lled gay bashg, ” he said. He entered prison at 18 and said he learned at a young age to hate gay and trans a life later, he wants to talk about Jsie Smollett.

He wants to know how his LGBTQ peers feel about Smollett now that the TV star’s reported anti-gay hate crime has been refuted by Chigo Police.

On a phone ll wh NBC News, Melenz, who has sce been released om prison, rattl off the slurs he ed as he burst to a hoe and killed two prison, Melenz said he had a lot of time to thk, not jt about the crime he mted at 19, but about the homophobia behd . “I actually took offense at people who were agast gay marriage, ” he 2015, when ACT started formg, Melenz took his own life experienc and ed them to help sign a curriculum for other straight peers the class. He is now a natnal advote for rtorative jtice and LGBTQ those who benef four years later om his work si are atten like Lee Xng, who was stgglg to face his younger brother who he spected was gay.

WHAT ’S REALLY LIKE TO BE OPENLY GAY PRISON

“I always thought that transgenr or gay were nothg, ” he says.

'I was able to be thentilly me'Straight prisoners aren’t untanglg their homophobia and earng parole at the expense of LGBTQ mat the group. ”Adams, who has been rcerated for 19 years, stggled for years before g out as bisexual publicly on San Quent’s podst, Ear Htle, last noted that not a sgle man ACT intifi as gay. 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.

KG VON TELLS POLICE HE'S 'GAY' IN RURFACED JAIL VIO

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.

He scribed a lany of btal rap, asslts, beatgs and, eventually, the total abandonment of his male inty as his only means of survival the hyper-mascule and often homophobic prison environment. His acunt suggts that far om beg a paradise, prison for gay men n be a livg days of his first enterg prison, the 23-year-old Rodney claimed he was the victim of three separate sexual asslts, volvg five different mat. The prison he was first sent to did actually have a separate tier for gay mat, but acrdg to Rodney, bee he did not "appear overly effemate" durg his classifitn, he was placed wh the general populatn; and bee was supposedly rare to have a gay person slip through the cracks of the system, his fellow mat took full advantage.

"Agast popular opn, jail is not heaven for a homosexual. Gay men who do not attempt to hi their sexualy are forced to passive and submissive rol. It's difficult to asss how typil Rodney's prison experience is, but numero studi nducted by the Bure of Jtice Statistics, based on anonymo mate surveys, have shown that gay and transgenr mat are among the most targeted groups for sexual victimizatn.