<p><strong>Sadhbh Walshe:</strong> The myth is that prison is a gay man's paradise. The realy is a choice of eher rape and abe or enslavement as a 'prison ho'</p>
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
I thought as a gay man beg sent to prison my life was over. I learned that 's not like they show movi. 10 thgs I learned as a gay prisoner. * gay in jail *
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.
‘BEG GAY PRISON IS TEN TIM HARR’: INMAT TELL OF ABE, USE OF SOLARY
Gay, bisexual and transgenr mat at California's San Quent State Prison meet weekly wh once-homophobic offenrs for a rtorative jtice group. * gay in jail *
Some men do go gay for the stay too but nobody the term “gay”. Fally, gay mat ually stick together. 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.
THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
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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.
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:.
VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
A 2017 vio of late rapper Kg Von rurfac onle wh the rapper sayg he's "gay" to get reloted jail. * gay in jail *
Some are gay and some aren't. 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.
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[WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY
“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. 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.
WHAT ’S REALLY LIKE TO BE OPENLY GAY PRISON
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. “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.
KG VON TELLS POLICE HE'S 'GAY' IN RURFACED JAIL VIO
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.