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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BLACK AND GAY AN ARIZONA PRISON

The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay. “Bee the gangs, if there’s even the spicn that you’re gay, you pay for wh your life. ” In this particular prison, San Francis Gotera, the east of the Central Amerin untry, gang culture was not the only source of vilent homophobia.

The state had effectively ced ntrol of daily life si Gotera to church lears, who preach that homosexualy is a s as grave as vlence.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

8—follows Geovany, a gay man who worked as a hman for Barr 18 and left the gang 2016. Livg the isolatn cell wh his partner and other gay mat, he grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past.

CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY & BISEXUAL

Homosexualy remas taboo and vlence and discrimatn agast LGBTQ people is rife.

“How is possible for a untry to have s moral pass so broken that homosexualy and murr n feel the same?

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY BLACK PRISONERS

What It's Like to Be Black and Gay Prison — Prison Journalism Project .

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