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Contents:
- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
- EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS
- LEARN ABOUT THE GAY GANG THAT SUPPORTS S MEMBERS BEHD BARS
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
A new documentary, 'Unfivable,' follows Geovany, a gay former gang hman, who grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past. * gay boy gangsta *
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. 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. 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?
EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS
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“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.
We still have a csh on Spado (Giao Ferrara), the gay, Gypsy mafso trag. Much of the show revolv around Davor dog his bt to keep his homosexualy hidn om his fay… not to mentn his enemi. LONG BEACH >> Serg Romero knew would be difficult for his mother to accept that the 37-year-old was gay, but still shocked and hurt him to learn she preferred her son to be an active gang member than to be gay.
“For her, I was more of a man as a gang member than beg gay, ” said Romero as he sat a Los Angel ffee shop tellg his story of beg an active member of a notor street gang and gay.
LEARN ABOUT THE GAY GANG THAT SUPPORTS S MEMBERS BEHD BARS
He is one of the men featured a documentary, “Homeboy, ” on Lato gang members who are gay that will be screened this weekend at the QFilm Ftival, Long Beach’s longt-nng film ftival prentg narrative featur, documentari and short films about the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) muny.
Gay gang members who are Lato gangs not only have to al wh the stereotypil machismo seen Lato culture, D said, they have to ntend wh the hyper-mascule posturg wh the gang microculture. “Before social media and Facebook, I had to post fliers gay bars orr to fd people willg to talk to me, ” D said.
Wh an timated 9 ln Amerins intifyg as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to a 2011 report om the Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law, gays are part of nearly every aspect of life, even wh the gang life. However, an exact number of openly gay gang members is difficult to e by sce many do not disclose their sexual orientatn. It took Manuel — he wanted to e only his first name — several years to adm he was gay.