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
- LEARN ABOUT THE GAY GANG THAT SUPPORTS S MEMBERS BEHD BARS
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- THE PRICE OF BEG GAY THE MS-13 GANG? DEATH
- MY GAY PRISON GANG FIGHTS NEO-NAZIS
- CHIGO RAPPER KG LIL JAY ADDRS ‘GAY’ ALLEGATNS AFTER PRISON VIO SURFAC
- 'UNFIVABLE' DIRECTOR: 'IF THE GANG KNOWS YOU'RE GAY, THEY KILL YOU'
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
* gay gangs in 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.
LEARN ABOUT THE GAY GANG THAT SUPPORTS S MEMBERS BEHD BARS
Kg Lil Jay has nied allegatns of him beg gay after a prison vio began dog the rounds which one male mate is seen stg on the lap of another. * gay gangs in prison *
“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? “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.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
) 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. “Te Gay Gangstas, ”.
It is not easy beg Gay prison. She told him that the fact she uld be around so many homophobic men who nstantly shun her and give her dirty looks and still mata her feme attu shows she stead is the strong one.
THE PRICE OF BEG GAY THE MS-13 GANG? DEATH
I have been gay my entire adult life. I have attend balls, gay paras and have always been proud of who I am. Which stood for The Gay Group (or Those Gay Girls, Them Girlie Guys, or my favore, Te Gay Gangstas).
For stance, if someone was around who was homophobic and a known “gay basher, ” the was “rabow ey, ” which meant: be alert, watch this guy.
MY GAY PRISON GANG FIGHTS NEO-NAZIS
While I do not advote gangs, I do believe we have to stick together and protect one another, bee the rrectnal officers will not, and even enurage or allow prisoners to harass, timidate, rob and asslt transgenr and gay prisoners. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.
CHIGO RAPPER KG LIL JAY ADDRS ‘GAY’ ALLEGATNS AFTER PRISON VIO SURFAC
Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.
”In July 2019, two gay men om St.
'UNFIVABLE' DIRECTOR: 'IF THE GANG KNOWS YOU'RE GAY, THEY KILL YOU'
Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.
One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.