The grim tth of beg gay prison | Sadhbh Walshe | The Guardian

Contents:

• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
• GAY PRISONER ‘RAPED AND BEATEN’ AFTER BEG FORCED TO SHARE CELL WH HOMOPHOBE
• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• GAYS PRISON
• NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI
• A FERAL MATE THREATENED ANOTHER FOR BEG GAY. THEN GUARDS MOVED THEM TO THE SAME CELL.
• I THOUGHT BEG GAY WAS A S UNTIL I SAW MY FRIEND SUFFER  PRISON

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

They told me that bee I was a homosexual, didn't matter.

Straight men who have engaged suatnal homosexualy (such as prison or the ary), what's your story? Also notably, William Hurt beme the first performer to w Bt Actor for playg a gay man.

After a r crash, Rsell realiz he's gay and pledg to live life to the fullt. While the film was not overtly gay -- censorship would have prevented that at the time -- the lbian unrton are hard to 's Prison MassacreThis 1983 horror film follows Emanuelle, a reporter sent to prison on tmped-up charg. In 1984, when Calv Burde was awag sentencg for allegedly stabbg his gay lover to ath, the prosecutg attorney enuraged the jury his closg remarks to award Burde the ath penalty, rather than life prison, on the grounds that sendg a gay man to prison was ak to sendg a kid to a ndy store.

GAY PRISONER ‘RAPED AND BEATEN’ AFTER BEG FORCED TO SHARE CELL WH HOMOPHOBE

His ath sentence was later overturned (mostly bee Burde's public fenr had slept through much of his trial), but the homophobic thkg – that prison is some kd of paradise for gay men – lgers realy of life prison for homosexuals and transgenr dividuals do not appear to reflect this myth. He scribed a lany of btal rap, asslts, beatgs and, eventually, the total abandonment of his male inty as his only means of survival the hyper-mascule and often homophobic prison environment.

His acunt suggts that far om beg a paradise, prison for gay men n be a livg days of his first enterg prison, the 23-year-old Rodney claimed he was the victim of three separate sexual asslts, volvg five different mat. The prison he was first sent to did actually have a separate tier for gay mat, but acrdg to Rodney, bee he did not "appear overly effemate" durg his classifitn, he was placed wh the general populatn; and bee was supposedly rare to have a gay person slip through the cracks of the system, his fellow mat took full advantage.

"Agast popular opn, jail is not heaven for a homosexual. Gay men who do not attempt to hi their sexualy are forced to passive and submissive rol. It's difficult to asss how typil Rodney's prison experience is, but numero studi nducted by the Bure of Jtice Statistics, based on anonymo mate surveys, have shown that gay and transgenr mat are among the most targeted groups for sexual victimizatn.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

Jt Detentn Internatnal (JDI), an anizatn whose aim is to eradite prison rape (pdf), is tryg to change has been workg wh the California Department of Correctns and Rehabilatn (CDCR) to tablish "sensive needs yards" (pdf), where gay, transgenr and other vulnerable mat n serve out their time safety. The US ernment has reached a $750, 000 settlement wh a gay prisoner, who was allegedly beaten and raped after beg forced to share wh a man who had threatened him.

Gay prisoner had reported mate for homophobic threats.

GAYS PRISON

Acrdg to The Washgton Post, Arapahoe, who is gay and Native Amerin, had reported receivg homophobic threats om his fellow mat bee of his sexualy. 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.

NEO-NAZI WHO TORTURED GAY PEOPLE VIRAL VIOS DI PRISON OF SUICI

” 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?

A FERAL MATE THREATENED ANOTHER FOR BEG GAY. THEN GUARDS MOVED THEM TO THE SAME CELL.

“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. Maxim Martskevich, the 36-year-old Neo-Nazi founr of Occupy Pedophilia, a Rsian vigilante group that tortured spected gay teenagers on vio, has reportedly mted suici while servg a 10-year prison sentence Siberia for an unrelated vlent offense, acrdg to the Mosw Tim.

I THOUGHT BEG GAY WAS A S UNTIL I SAW MY FRIEND SUFFER  PRISON

Through Format 18, he allegedly arranged the productn and sale of vios showg immigrants beg 2013, Martskevich beme famo amongst the Wtern LGBTQ muny for his vios associated wh Occupy Pedophilia, his group that ed social media to lure gay men wh promis of sex only to rerd their huiated and physil torment on mera. In many of his vios, Martskevich and his horts punched and slapped the gay men, forced them to strip to their unrwear, shaved their heads reverse Mohawks, pated rabows the sheared strip upon their heads, forced them to hold sex toys, ma them state their full nam, had them utter self-nigratg statements like "I suck c*ck" and also forced them to drk one vio, Martskevich brandished a two-pronged fork towards a young man's eye and told him that he uld eher lose his eye or be sodomized wh the fork.

Many of the vios also featured anti-gay slurs and homophobic statements. One of the most popular groups had 75, 000 followers, acrdg to the Amerin tech news webse The mpaign also spawned a spoff group, Occupy Gerontophilia, which targeted young gay people acced of "prostutg" themselv to olr men.

Martskevich's anti-gay group and s vios began to surface the Wt the same year that the Rsian feral ernment signed a natnal law crimalizg as "homosexual propaganda. " The law has sce been ed to shut down LGBTQ youth groups, tnal s as well as to fire gay teachers, arrt people monstratg for LGBTQ rights and harass queer cizens out of the untry. It was early Augt said Arapahoe — who is gay and Native Amerin — told her that other Native Amerin mat were makg threats toward him and that he felt his life would be danger if he was not placed protective ctody, acrdg to a feral urt had specifilly named another mate, William officials vtigated her claims, terviewg Arapahoe, who told them Mexin, named as a gang reprentative urt documents, and other Native Amerin mat had “voted [Arapahoe] off the yard, ” for beg gay, the plat also terviewed Mexin and the others, acrdg to the plat, but found “no verifiable threat” to two months later, Mexin was transferred to Arapahoe’s cell.