Police ed to raid gay bars. Now they march Pri paras. - Vox

Contents:

• 10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
• IN THE GAY WG OF L.A. MEN'S CENTRAL JAIL, IT'S NOT SHANKS AND MUGGGS BUT HAND-SEWN GOWNS AND TEARS
• POLICE ED TO RAID GAY BARS. NOW THEY MARCH PRI PARAS.
• GAY AND BEHD BARS: LIFE STORI OF FILIPO GAY PRISONERS THE LEYTE REGNAL PRISON
• GAY BEHD BARS
• 30 INFAMO POLICE RAIDS OF GAY BARS AND BATHHO

10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS

The thought of beg a gay man prison sred the livg daylights out of me. Worse, I feared that bee I was a gay man, I’d be an easy target for abe.

Moreover, they also knew that I was gay. What follows are 10 thgs I learned om the perspective of a gay man and ex-mate at a feral prison mp.

IN THE GAY WG OF L.A. MEN'S CENTRAL JAIL, IT'S NOT SHANKS AND MUGGGS BUT HAND-SEWN GOWNS AND TEARS

My hope sharg this is to offer a realistic snapshot to gay men who get sent to prison. Some men do go gay for the stay too but nobody the term “gay”.

But even then, don’t expect fair treatment – particularly if someone wh thory don’t like gay people. Not to be stereotypil but as a gay man, I had some refed tast food before gettg sent away.

As a gay man, I prid myself my pearly wh.

POLICE ED TO RAID GAY BARS. NOW THEY MARCH PRI PARAS.

Remember when I said gay sex is unmon at prison? The one advantage of beg a gay prisoner is that you are sometim approached for a barter. I’ve been asked if gay men have prison boyiends.

First, the relatnships are almost always kept on the DL, even if you are openly gay. Other observatns as a gay prisoner:.

Regardls if you are gay or straight, dog time prison is extremely hard. When you are gay, 's a ltle different. Williams, a transgenr mate known on the si as Yah Yah, glis past a hootg and hollerg crowd of her fellow gay and transgenr mat, perched atop their beds for a prime view.

GAY AND BEHD BARS: LIFE STORI OF FILIPO GAY PRISONERS THE LEYTE REGNAL PRISON

But among the roughly 400 people hoed “K6G, ” the gay wg of Men’s Central Jail, there’s ltle outward exprsn of racial prejudice or gang rivalry.

Dunn Roy, a gay Brish film producer who was held K6G for 89 days whout bail 2012, unr ex–Sheriff Lee Ba’s ntroversial terpretatn of “immigratn holds, ” rells, “In other parts of the jail, you try and smuggle dgs and cigarett. The gay wg at Men’s Central Jail is an exceptnally rare, if not unique, subculture, the only environment of s kd a major U.

Nothg like exists Ameri’s 21 largt urban jails, all ntacted by the Weekly, where officials scribed far more most terms their own steps to al wh and hoe gay mat. San Francis has a transgenr hog area, but gay mat live among the general populatn. In New York’s Rikers Island, whose siar gay wg was shuttered 2005, a jail spokman lghed out loud, sayg that whoever cis which men get placed L.

GAY BEHD BARS

County’s gay jail wg “mt have really good gay-dar. ” The clost thg to a gay wg another big, urban jail system, though isn’t close at all, is at the Old Wayne County Jail Detro, which offers a small number of locked cells to gay and transgenr mat. MCJ’s gay wg was set up rponse to a 1985 ACLU lawsu, which aimed to protect homosexual mat om a higher threat of physil vlence than heterosexuals faced.

Another mate of the gay wg at Men's Central Jail stts her stuff.

She’s bee somethg of a n mother for the revolvg muny of gay and transgenr mat. Today, some straight mat vie to get placed MCJ’s gay wg, part bee ’s a safer harbor for ex-gangbangers aaid of beg nonted by vlent enemi, jailers say.

30 INFAMO POLICE RAIDS OF GAY BARS AND BATHHO

The Sheriff’s Department even a “classifitn officer” to weed out impostors, through a seri of ntroversial tt qutns about gay culture. Deputy Sheriff Javier Machado, a classifitn officer, reli on a seri of go-to qutns, such as askg purportedly gay mat to name a lol gay bar they equent. If an g mate manag to rrectly name a gay bar L.

Acrdg to the gay mat, another reason some straight men try to get to K6G is that they want to hook up wh often-pretty transgenr tae.

But a major reason, almost certaly, is that the gay wg is a far ls dangero, more humane place to be. David Arrieta, one gay mate given permissn to speak to the Weekly and be viotaped si the gay wg, explas, “Beg a Hoe Moe [the heterosexual si of Men’s Central Jail], you are nsired a rat, whereas K6G you are nsired a fairy. Dunn Roy, the producer, says the Hoe Moe the gay wg is a “very powerful posn [bee] is the liaison between the puti and the dorms.