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.
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10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
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Eighteen terviewe self-intified as heterosexual, four as gay, and four as bisexual. Gay and bisexual men reported that while they were “fairly” or “totally” open about their sexualy on the wg, they were discreet about their sexual activi and relatnships. One heterosexual man said that he had had nsensual sex wh gay or bisexual prisoners “out of necsy”.
Some terviewe observed that they had known some openly homosexual upl beg allowed to share cells some stutns.
One terviewee reported that a senr officer had moved a young prisoner, who had nfid he was “nfed” about his sexualy, to the cell of an openly gay, olr prisoner, orr to help him “sort himself out”. More than 78 percent intified themselv as heterosexual, and 8 percent intified themselv as homosexual; slightly more than 13 percent intified themselv as bisexual.
THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
The maximum-secury un had more self-intified homosexuals and bisexuals than the other two stutns. The study did not fd an elevated rate of nsensual homosexual activy by the mat pared to the amount which they engaged prr to rceratn. One-fourth of the prison sample dited they had engaged some form of nsensual homosexual activy while rcerated; 18 percent had engaged homosexual activy prr to rceratn.