Check It is about a gay Ain-Amerin gang stgglg to survive one of Washgton D.C.’s most vlent neighborhoods. The film is an timate portra of 4 childhood iends - as they claw their way out of gang life through an unlikely avenue - fashn. Wh members now numberg the hundreds, the Check It is a small gang one cy but reflects a natnal issue. Beg gay poor, vlent Ain-Amerin neighborhoods rri a dangero stigma. Standg up for who they are is more than an issue of pri for this group—’s riskg their liv. Posted By Ghost
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- 'CHECK IT' IS A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AMERI'S ONLY ALL-GAY GANG
- WHY A D.C. GAY GANG TOOK MATTERS INTO ITS OWN HANDS
- 'CHECK IT' IS A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AN ALL-GAY AMERIN GANG
- "CHECK IT": A VICE DOCUMENTARY ON THE GAY GANG OF DC VOL. THEM BOYS BE WILDG
- "CHECK IT": A VICE DOCUMENTARY ON THE GAY GANG OF DC VOL. THEM BOYS BE WILDG
'CHECK IT' IS A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AMERI'S ONLY ALL-GAY GANG
The film tells the story of how bullied DC teens band together to provi safety numbers and let people know that if you jumped a gay kid DC, you'd likely get jumped back retaliatn. * gay gang in dc documentary *
The film follows five young gay black iends who found Check It, claimed to be the only documented all-gay and transgenr gang the natn by the filmmakers. ’s homels youth populatn intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr.
“Check It, ” which is executive produced by Steve Bcemi, follows the members of black gay gang Washgton, D. “It’s about a gay black street gang DC (the only one documented the untry) ma up of kids who were livg on the streets and easy targets for vlence and harassment, ” he explaed.
-- jt steps om the Whe Hoe, the priste monuments, and the tony rinc of some of the world's most powerful people -- one n also fd the Check It 2005 by a group of bullied nth-grars, the so-lled gay gang has grown to over 200 LGBT young people of lor, some of whom are as young as 14 years old. It also illtrat how the gang is a source of both pri and pri, as one member stated, om fyg the expectatn that "gays are weak and that we n't fight. Acrdg to a recent report om the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, at least half of gay and bisexual black men will ntract HIV their lifetim.
WHY A D.C. GAY GANG TOOK MATTERS INTO ITS OWN HANDS
The film tells the story of how bullied DC teens band together to provi safety numbers and let people know that if you jumped a gay kid DC, you'd likely get jumped back retaliatn. * gay gang in dc documentary *
He repeated the sentiments to The Advote an terview alongsi Check It's have been "no gay advot, " he observed, no mentors who "step up and say, 'Look, I got the younguns. Travyon Warren is one of the origal members of the Check It, an all-gay and trans gang the natn's pal.
'CHECK IT' IS A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AN ALL-GAY AMERIN GANG
* gay gang in dc documentary *
He grew up a a rough Tridadian neighborhood of Washgton, DC where there were no gay people, so his irreprsible flamboyance ma him a target at a young age.
"CHECK IT": A VICE DOCUMENTARY ON THE GAY GANG OF DC VOL. THEM BOYS BE WILDG
The film tells the story of how three bullied DC teens started the only documented all-gay or transgenred gang Ameri—also lled Check It—wh Warren beg one of the origal ten members.
"CHECK IT": A VICE DOCUMENTARY ON THE GAY GANG OF DC VOL. THEM BOYS BE WILDG
The group formed to provi members safety numbers and let people know that if you jumped a gay kid DC, you'd likely get jumped back , Check It has about 200 members, and they make their money mtg crim like petty theft, robbery, and rjackg, filmmaker Dana Flor told me. More ccially, they provi each other wh a sense of muny a place where beg gay n get you ostracized om your fay, your church, and your classmat.