Gay, bisexual and transgenr mat at California's San Quent State Prison meet weekly wh once-homophobic offenrs for a rtorative jtice group.
Contents:
- THE UNEXPECTED GAY LEGACY 'PRISON BREAK' IS LEAVG BEHD
- DID YOU KNOW MICHAEL SFIELD OF PRISON BREAK IS GAY? SEE THE MEN HE HAS DATED
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
THE UNEXPECTED GAY LEGACY 'PRISON BREAK' IS LEAVG BEHD
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This exchange the send episo of “Prison Break” marks a rare moment durg the seri’ origal n that allus to the possibily of gay sex behd bars.
Its star Wentworth Miller me out as gay 2013, stg his celebry and the seri a new light. Three years later, “Prison Break” was revived wh an pee who happened to be gay and Mlim, as well as three openly gay actors leadg rol.
He quickly beme an spirg figure an dtry that’s historilly silenced gay actors by revealg his own stggl wh suici, prsn and even a rult, his work on “Prison Break” beme immediately policized, regardls of whether he ever had any tentn of makg Michael Sfield a queer hero. It’s meangful to see a gay male lead this kd of macho-retro universe.
DID YOU KNOW MICHAEL SFIELD OF PRISON BREAK IS GAY? SEE THE MEN HE HAS DATED
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“‘Prison Break’ has a huge followg the Middle East, so I wanted to give viewers a season that rewards them for all the thgs they love, but at the same time mak them a ltle unfortable and root for a guy they might malign otherwise for his homosexualy. The settg and qutns surroundg his prumed ath give the new season a creative boost, but the most wele surprise arriv the form of Sid (Kunal Sharma), a young Mlim man sentenced to 20 years prison for beg gay. ’ And havg gay characters the reboot is a natural progrsn.
” Sharma echoed Miller’s sentiment, appldg the wrers for cludg the story gay Mlim man a televisn landspe that typilly eras them. Like many LGBTQ characters on-screen the days, Sid be the latt victim of the “Bury Your Gays” trope. In addn to Miller, Augt Prew, who recently got engaged to his partner, joed the st along wh El Gamal, a gay Mlim actor.
Queer actors are typilly pigeonholed to playg rol that align wh their genr and sexualy, but here, openly gay men play everythg om heterosexual love terts to pe artists and ISIL villas.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
Sarah Gay is gog to prison for 10 years after LaQuenta Holey and Andrew Griff were killed a wrong-way crash on the North Freeway 2021. * prison break gay man *
”As “Prison Break” heads to what uld be s seri fale on Tuday night, beg a mastream actn show that actively embrac gayns might jt be s greatt cultural ntributn. “And then there’s other people, who love Michael Sfield but maybe they don’t love gay people, and now they’re wonrg if that means somethg, that they’re hero worshippg this character that’s played by an actor they know is gay... 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. 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.
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * prison break gay man *
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.