A new documentary, 'Unfivable,' follows Geovany, a gay former gang hman, who grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past.
Contents:
- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
- MY GAY PRISON GANG FIGHTS NEO-NAZIS
- THE PRICE OF BEG GAY THE MS-13 GANG? DEATH
- LEARN ABOUT THE GAY GANG THAT SUPPORTS S MEMBERS BEHD BARS
- 'UNFIVABLE' DIRECTOR: 'IF THE GANG KNOWS YOU'RE GAY, THEY KILL YOU'
- GAY AND A GANG: FILM TELLS STORY OF A JAILED HMAN EL SALVADOR
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
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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.
MY GAY PRISON GANG FIGHTS NEO-NAZIS
“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 PRICE OF BEG GAY THE MS-13 GANG? DEATH
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.
LEARN ABOUT THE GAY GANG THAT SUPPORTS S MEMBERS BEHD BARS
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? “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.
'UNFIVABLE' DIRECTOR: 'IF THE GANG KNOWS YOU'RE GAY, THEY KILL YOU'
) 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. I was a gay man, nvicted of a sex crime. That is, until the other gays and trans found out about me.
At the time, one of the gangs, which lled themselv the Aryan Knights, ed “beatg up fags and chomos (child molters)” as an iatn for new members.
GAY AND A GANG: FILM TELLS STORY OF A JAILED HMAN EL SALVADOR
But that meant that a number of gay men and transgenr women sudnly wanted to be my boyiend (or girliend), not bee they liked me that way, but bee they figured I’d protect them. Neverthels, people still nsired him a “chomo.
Wh the help of two iends, I began to gather many of the gay and transgenr mat a gang of our own. Our number-one objective was to unter the Aryans’ program of “jumpg recs” by beatg up gays and sex offenrs.