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

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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.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

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.

CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY & BISEXUAL

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.

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