A new documentary, 'Unfivable,' follows Geovany, a gay former gang hman, who grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past.
Contents:
- BLACK AND GAY AN ARIZONA PRISON
- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
- CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY & BISEXUAL
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.
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
“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. 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?
“But the tth is that they are already nmned: they’ve left the gang; they’ve lived wh former members of other gangs; and they’ve lived openly as gay people, ” she says. The homosexual is the same, ” says a pastor one terview laid over a scene of him preachg to rapturo crowds the prison urtyard. ) Martez says the film is not an attempt to reem the subjects “jt bee they’re gay, jt bee they n show love or tenrns.