After Craigslist and Manhunt, Here is Where Gays Will Get Their Clicks

Contents:

• IN THE GAY WG OF L.A. MEN'S CENTRAL JAIL, IT'S NOT SHANKS AND MUGGGS BUT HAND-SEWN GOWNS AND TEARS
• AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS
• THUG PORN THE STORY OF A BLACK GAY PORN PRODUCER
• WHAT DO GAY THUG DATG COST?

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

Williams, a transgenr mate known on the si as Yah Yah, glis past a hootg and hollerg crowd of her fellow gay and transgenr mat, perched atop their beds for a prime view.

But among the roughly 400 people hoed “K6G, ” the gay wg of Men’s Central Jail, there’s ltle outward exprsn of racial prejudice or gang rivalry. Dunn Roy, a gay Brish film producer who was held K6G for 89 days whout bail 2012, unr ex–Sheriff Lee Ba’s ntroversial terpretatn of “immigratn holds, ” rells, “In other parts of the jail, you try and smuggle dgs and cigarett.

The gay wg at Men’s Central Jail is an exceptnally rare, if not unique, subculture, the only environment of s kd a major U.

AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS

Nothg like exists Ameri’s 21 largt urban jails, all ntacted by the Weekly, where officials scribed far more most terms their own steps to al wh and hoe gay mat. San Francis has a transgenr hog area, but gay mat live among the general populatn.

In New York’s Rikers Island, whose siar gay wg was shuttered 2005, a jail spokman lghed out loud, sayg that whoever cis which men get placed L.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

County’s gay jail wg “mt have really good gay-dar. ” The clost thg to a gay wg another big, urban jail system, though isn’t close at all, is at the Old Wayne County Jail Detro, which offers a small number of locked cells to gay and transgenr mat. MCJ’s gay wg was set up rponse to a 1985 ACLU lawsu, which aimed to protect homosexual mat om a higher threat of physil vlence than heterosexuals faced.

AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS

Another mate of the gay wg at Men's Central Jail stts her stuff. She’s bee somethg of a n mother for the revolvg muny of gay and transgenr mat. Today, some straight mat vie to get placed MCJ’s gay wg, part bee ’s a safer harbor for ex-gangbangers aaid of beg nonted by vlent enemi, jailers say.

The Sheriff’s Department even a “classifitn officer” to weed out impostors, through a seri of ntroversial tt qutns about gay culture.

Deputy Sheriff Javier Machado, a classifitn officer, reli on a seri of go-to qutns, such as askg purportedly gay mat to name a lol gay bar they equent. If an g mate manag to rrectly name a gay bar L.

THUG PORN THE STORY OF A BLACK GAY PORN PRODUCER

Acrdg to the gay mat, another reason some straight men try to get to K6G is that they want to hook up wh often-pretty transgenr tae. But a major reason, almost certaly, is that the gay wg is a far ls dangero, more humane place to be.

David Arrieta, one gay mate given permissn to speak to the Weekly and be viotaped si the gay wg, explas, “Beg a Hoe Moe [the heterosexual si of Men’s Central Jail], you are nsired a rat, whereas K6G you are nsired a fairy. Dunn Roy, the producer, says the Hoe Moe the gay wg is a “very powerful posn [bee] is the liaison between the puti and the dorms. When mat are first assigned to a gay dorm, they are immediately stripped of their general-populatn, dark blue jail uniforms and given the powr-blue uniforms that signify they are gay or transgenr.

As Roy not, “For the first time my life, I was intifiably gay. Acrdg to one litenant, the gay mat ntually tweak their bleak environment.

WHAT DO GAY THUG DATG COST?

Every Friday, the gay dorms put on self-anized events such as “Fay Night, ” which they prent fashn shows, and engage “dorm datg” (a form of speed datg).

In one of the three gay dorms, mat pete Mr. Gay Dorm 9100, named after their room number. In the gay wg, soap be strangely effective hair product, and foil is refully svenged om the si of cereal box to be fashned to shy silver buttons.

A mobile the gay wg ma of cereal box and magaze pag; Cred: Photo by Ani Ur. It might almost appear, to an outsir, as if MCJ’s gay and transsexual mat are gently mockg society’s expectatns of how crimals are supposed to act when nfed behd bars for long perds of time.

For years, gay prison mat have been sgled out for mistreatment and persecutn. Alexanr Lara, wrg the Southern California Interdisciplary Law Journal, reported that a 2007 study of California mat showed 5 percent of straight men were victims of sexual asslt cludg rape, while “an astonishg” 67 percent of gay, bisexual and transgenr mat were.