Insi El Salvador's Prison Cell for Gay Former Gang Members | Time

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A new documentary, 'Unfivable,' follows Geovany, a gay former gang hman, who grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past.

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GAYS THE GANG

Gay men sometim jo or form gangs, which may be surprisg. Vansa Panfil unvers the liv of men gay, straight, and hybrid gangs. * gay teen gangs *

The prsure to nform to heterosexism and homophobia, along wh reprsed homosexualy, are key to unrstandg the motiv behd vlence ed by gay, bisexual, and transsexual youth. The experienc of gay and bisexual young men homophobic environments likely take on signifintly different meangs than those of girls who intified as bisexual rrectnal settgs.

Other participants reported that they always knew that they were gay. All participated severe, public beatgs of dividuals the gangs nsired to be gay or sexually abnormal. Gay men sometim jo or form gangs, which may be surprisg.

Several very meangful differenc arise om the gang’s rat of heterosexual to gay, lbian, and bisexual gang members. My recent book, The Gang’s All Queer: The Liv of Gay Gang Members par men three typ of gangs: gay, straight, and hybrid.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

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Gay gangs were ma up exclively or nearly exclively of GLB people, while the straight gangs were ma up of a majory of heterosexual people.

TWO GAY MEN BTALLY ATTACKED BY GANG OF TEN HOMOPHOBIC TEENS

A few primarily-straight gangs had a cril mass of gay, lbian, or bisexual members—anywhere om about a quarter to almost one half—which I ll hybrid gangs.

Straight gangs were anized by neighborhoods, wh men jog pre-existg groups, while the gay gangs were stctured around their shared sexual inty, and many helped form their gangs. On average, men joed gay gangs nearly four years later life than men who joed straight gangs, and they were out when they joed.

Men gay gangs were more likely to feel that they were re members of their gangs than those straight gangs, and to scribe their gangs as their fai.

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