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Contents:
- THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
- A FERAL MATE THREATENED ANOTHER FOR BEG GAY. THEN GUARDS MOVED THEM TO THE SAME CELL.
THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
<p><strong>Sadhbh Walshe:</strong> The myth is that prison is a gay man's paradise. The realy is a choice of eher rape and abe or enslavement as a 'prison ho'</p> * gay rape in prison *
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. 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.
A FERAL MATE THREATENED ANOTHER FOR BEG GAY. THEN GUARDS MOVED THEM TO THE SAME CELL.
Informatn about the rights of lbian, gay, and bisexual dividuals who are prison, and the available reurse for vlatns of the rights. * gay rape in prison *
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. 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.
And make that person to a homosexual then sell him to other mat or gangs. Both tim the staff refed to do anythg except to lock me up and make accatns that I'm homosexual and that if I pursue legal actn they'd ship me and both tim they did. From the way such attacks manift, n seem to others, admistrators and prisoners, that the victims are jt homosexual to beg wh.