The grim tth of beg gay prison | Sadhbh Walshe | The Guardian

Contents:

• TEXAS MAN IS SENTENCED FOR USG DATG APP TO TARGET GAY MEN
• COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'
• TEXAS MAN GETS 23 YEARS FOR G GRDR APP TO TARGET GAY MEN FOR HATE CRIM
• GAYS PRISON
• VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
• THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO TO JAIL IN ENGLAND JT FOR BEG GAY
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

TEXAS MAN IS SENTENCED FOR USG DATG APP TO TARGET GAY MEN

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe man, Daniel Jenks, was part of a group that ed the app Grdr to lure gay men to an apartment plex Dallas to rob and asslt them, prosecutors said.

20, 2021A Texas man was sentenced to 23 years feral prison on Wednday for his nnectn a scheme that ed the popular datg app Grdr to target gay men for vlent hate crim, prosecutors County's Sheriff's DepartmentThe man, Daniel Jenks, 22, of Dallas, plead guilty June to one unt of nspiracy to m hate crim, kidnappg, rjackg, one hate crime unt and one unt of g a firearm durg and relatn to a crime of vlence, the Department of Jtice said a Jenks was the last of four fendants to be sentenced the nspiracy that ed Grdr, a social media app that is ed primarily by gay men. “This fendant targeted nocent victims for vlent crim simply bee he believed they were gay, ” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Jtice Department’s Civil Rights Divisn said the statement. Jenks admted, acrdg to prosecutors, that he and others “lured multiple victims” to an apartment plex, poted a handgun at them, robbed them of their belonggs and asslted them, jurg one of Jenks told vtigators that members of his group ed gay slurs and tnted the victims and that one member attempted to sexually asslt one of the victims, the Department of Jtice said.

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COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'

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TEXAS MAN GETS 23 YEARS FOR G GRDR APP TO TARGET GAY MEN FOR HATE CRIM

While the film was not overtly gay -- censorship would have prevented that at the time -- the lbian unrton are hard to 's Prison MassacreThis 1983 horror film follows Emanuelle, a reporter sent to prison on tmped-up charg. Image source, The Greatt MenaceImage ptn, Cooma jail was once ed exclively to imprison gay menSet one of the lst and wdit small towns Atralia, Cooma prison holds a dark only was reopened 1957 wh the specific purpose of rceratg men for "homosexual offenc", was also said to be ed as a human ttg ground wh the ultimate goal of eraditg homosexualy om 's jail is believed to have been the only known homosexual prison the world, acrdg to a new now, even some prison staff say they didn't know the real reason gay prisoners were segregated Strzelecki, 66, started as a ctodial servic officer at the prison 1979, and later set up the Corrective Servic Mm Cooma.

We'd red stamp homosexual prisoners wh 'N/A': non-associatn wh mastream prisons, " he tells the BBC. "You wouldn't bunk two together… that was one of our biggt problems - keepg an eye on them, " says Mr New, now source, Thomas McCoyImage ptn, L Strzelecki (left) worked at the jail before settg up the lol Corrective Servic MmHistoril documents suggt New South Wal (NSW) Jtice Mister Reg Downg took cred for tablishg the reportedly exprsed "pri" at his pet project, tellg the Sydney Morng Herald 1957: "Nowhere Europe or Ameri did I fd any prisons where homosexuals were separated om other prisoners. " A 1958 prs statement om Mr Downg nam Cooma prison as "the only penal stutn the world, so far as is known, voted specifilly to the tentn of homosexual offenrs".

Prisoners at Cooma were rcerated for beg gay, or crim related to beg gay; homosexualy wasn't crimalised NSW until dranian state laws 1955 had cracked down on homosexualy.

GAYS PRISON

"The legislative chang were very wi-rangg their asslt on the civil liberti of men thought to have homoerotic sir.

VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL

Attempted buggery rried five years, and a harsher crackdown, a clse was add statg "wh or whout the nsent of such person" source, State Library of NSWImage ptn, Reg Downg exprsed pri separatg gay prisoners om othersBoth Mr Wotherspoon and the podst ce evince of police actg as "agents provotrs" to ce men to m homosexual acts.

"They'd e hunky policemen to entrap gay men by enticg them to have sex, ually public toilets, " Mr Wotherspoon 1958, the NSW ernment announced a mtee of quiry to the "e and treatment of homosexualy".

THIS IS WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO TO JAIL IN ENGLAND JT FOR BEG GAY

It nam Cooma prison as "a special stutn for nvicted homosexual offenrs" which will "facilate the vtigatn" a "scientific evaluatn of the problem and possible solutn" has been found, Mr Downg is quoted as sayg, "the ernment nsirs that the problem mt be attacked wh vigour".

' and nclud that 'overmotherg' was "a major e of homosexualy, " says podst creator and journalist Patrick Abboud, who has spent years rearchg the prison. "We know they failed their missn to eradite homosexualy bee our podst reveals gay men havg ongog relatnships the prison. "The elive report has never been found - somethg Mr Abboud says amounts to a "ver up" source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Cooma is a town of about 7, 000 peopleIt's unclear when homosexual prisoners were no longer sent to Cooma.

Corrective Servic NSW and the NSW Department of Communi and Jtice cled to ment on the allegatns, cg their "historil nature" Abboud believ gay prisoners may have been sent there until the early 1980s, cg a 1982 statement om the rrective servic mister claimg the policy still stood. Sex offenrs were also sent to Cooma and this further stigmatised gay prisoners, says Mr Wotherspoon says, wh recent parliamentary bate of a Relig Discrimatn Bill threateng to allow discrimatn based on sexual orientatn, such recent history rri a soberg warng.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

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