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
- EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS
- 'CHECK IT' IS A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AMERI'S ONLY ALL-GAY GANG
- MY GAY PRISON GANG FIGHTS NEO-NAZIS
- MAD TV GAY GANGSTER FIGHT
- “I WILL FIGHT YOU LIKE I’M STRAIGHT”: GAY GANG- AND CRIME-INVOLVED MEN’S PARTICIPATN VLENCE
- GAYNGSTER
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. “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. Bee even the ia of a gay man beg a gang fli the face of nventnal thought, the gang members I spoke wh had to nstantly rist or subvert a range of stereotyp and expectatns.
EVIL TWKS AND GAY GANGSTERS: WHY WE NEED TO REMEMBER HISTORY’S HORRID HOMOSEXUALS
From Alexanr the Great to Ronnie Kray, the hosts of the Bad Gays podst reveal the most villao LGBTQ+ figur ever – and expla why ’s important to discs the problematic alongsi the good * gay gangsters fighting *
I was openly gay – part of the “fay, ” as some of them put – and bee I was a stunt nductg rearch for a book, they were nfint that I stood a better chance of accurately reprentg them than any “straight novelist” or journalist.
The gay men straight gangs I spoke wh knew precisely what was expected of them: be willg to fight wh rival gangs, monstrate toughns, date or have sex wh women and be fancially pennt.
'CHECK IT' IS A NEW DOCUMENTARY ABOUT AMERI'S ONLY ALL-GAY GANG
The film tells the story of how bullied DC teens band together to provi safety numbers and let people know that if you jumped a gay kid DC, you'd likely get jumped back retaliatn. * gay gangsters fighting *
In “hybrid” gangs (those wh a sizable mory of gay, lbian or bisexual people) or all-gay gangs, the men I terviewed were held to many of the same standards.
Cght between not wantg themselv or others to be prsured to act mascule all the time, but also not wantg to be read as visibly gay or weak (which uld ve challeng), ristance to beg seen as a “punk” or a phover was cril.
It all seemed to e om a sire to upend damagg cultural stereotyp of gay men as weak, of black men as “adbeats” and offenrs, and of gang members as vlent thugs. One of the most pellg fdgs of my study was what happened when the gay gang members were risively lled “fag” or “faggot” by straight men bars, on b, schools or on the streets.
MY GAY PRISON GANG FIGHTS NEO-NAZIS
A soclogist spent two years terviewg gay gang members. While some were the closet and others were openly gay, all were forced to reckon wh an environment of hypermasculy. * gay gangsters fighting *
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. When one person is persecuted or abed, and there is somethg I n do about , pecially if that person is my gay or trans brother or sister, is my problem. Meet gay gang members - sometim referred to popular culture as "homo thugs" - whose gay inty plit crimology's portrayal and reprentatn of gangs, gang members, and gang life.
In vivid tail, Panfil provis an -pth unrstandg of how gay gang members nstct and negotiate both mascule and gay inti through crime and gang membership. The Gang's All Queer draws om terviews wh over 50 gay gang- and crime-volved young men Columb, Oh, the majory of whom are men of lor their late teens and early twenti, as well as on-the-ground ethnographic fieldwork wh men who are gay, hybrid, and straight gangs. Most e om impoverished, 'rough' neighborhoods, and seek to fy negative stereotyp of gay and Black men as adbeats, though sometim through illegal activy.
MAD TV GAY GANGSTER FIGHT
A gangster picks a fight wh a gay gangster. See what happens. *****ALL CREDIT GOES TO MAD TV***** * gay gangsters fighting *
Some are still closeted to their fellow gang members and fai, yet others fight to fend members of the gay muny, even those who they em to be "fags, " spe distaste for the flamboyant members of the muny.
Jeremy, Imani, and Johnny are gay men who are willg to e vlence to addrs disrpect, to “fight back” agast anti-gay harassment, and to retaliate agast rival gangs, among other reasons.
However, the studi assume a heterosexual man (Collier 1998), and therefore nnot exame the ways vlence is utilized and jtified by men who intify as gay.
“I WILL FIGHT YOU LIKE I’M STRAIGHT”: GAY GANG- AND CRIME-INVOLVED MEN’S PARTICIPATN VLENCE
Dpe extensive crimologil lerature on vlence and victimizatn, the portra of gay men’s volvement is unclear. Lerature exists on gay men as victims of timate partner vlence and anti-gay bias crim, but there is very ltle on gay... * gay gangsters fighting *
The -pth, semistctured terviews I analyze this chapter are data llected as part of a study on the tersectn of masculy and sexualy the liv of gay gang- and crime-volved men.
GAYNGSTER
Gay men sometim jo or form gangs, which may be surprisg. Vansa Panfil unvers the liv of men gay, straight, and hybrid gangs. * gay gangsters fighting *
It is the first study that explicly seeks to explore the ways gay men who are also members of gangs or volved crimal activy (or both) e and jtify vlence.