Uganda's LGBTQ muny is ' shock' over new measure, gay activist says

Contents:

• 10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
• THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
• ‘BEG GAY PRISON IS TEN TIM HARR’: INMAT TELL OF ABE, USE OF SOLARY
• INSI THE CHECHEN PRISON WHERE GAY MEN SAY THEY WERE TORTURED
• UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
• GAY MAT TIE THE KNOT SI CYPS PRISON
• RSIA ‘HAS SECRETLY OPENED NAZI-STYLE PRISONS WHERE HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN ARE HELD AND SOME MURRED,’ LOL REPORTS CLAIM
• KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
• CHIGO RAPPER KG LIL JAY ADDRS ‘GAY’ ALLEGATNS AFTER PRISON VIO SURFAC
• [WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY

10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS

The data is clear: lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ 1) people are overreprented at every stage of crimal jtice system, startg wh juvenile jtice system volvement. (Namely, we provi the only natnal timat for lbian, gay, or bisexual arrt rat and muny supervisn rat that we know of. Rearchers timate that 20% of youth the juvenile jtice system are lbian, gay, bisexual, qutng, genr nonnformg, or transgenr pared wh 4-6% of youth the general populatn.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

Lbian, gay, and bisexual adults the crimal jtice system.

Our analysis of data om the Natnal Survey on Dg Use and Health (NSDUH) reveals that 2019, gay, lbian, and bisexual dividuals (wh an arrt rate of 3, 620 per 100, 000) were 2. Meanwhile, gay and bisexual men are 1.

Gay, lbian, and bisexual people are also overreprented prisons and jails, pecially lbian and bisexual women. Rearchers analyzg the most recent Natnal Inmate Survey found that LGB people are rcerated at a rate over three tim that of the total adult populatn: 1, 882 per 100, 000 lbian, gay, and bisexual people are rcerated, pared wh 612 per 100, 000 U. 4% of women intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual:.

‘BEG GAY PRISON IS TEN TIM HARR’: INMAT TELL OF ABE, USE OF SOLARY

5%) men prison intify as gay or bisexual and an addnal 3.

INSI THE CHECHEN PRISON WHERE GAY MEN SAY THEY WERE TORTURED

8% report havg had sex wh men before arrival at the facily but do not self-intify as gay or bisexual.

The high rat of gay, lbian, and bisexual people behd bars n part be attributed to the longer sentenc urts impose on them. And gay and bisexual men were more likely than straight men to have sentenc longer than 10 years prison.

While locked up, gay, lbian, and bisexual people are subjected to pecially humane treatment. Fally, gay, lbian, and bisexual people are overreprented the muny supervisn populatn. Our analysis of the NSDUH data reveals that people on probatn and parole are almost twice as likely to be lbian, gay, or bisexual than people not on probatn and parole – and aga, lbian and bisexual women are pecially overreprented:.

UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS

Men on probatn are somewhat more likely to be gay or bisexual (5.

GAY MAT TIE THE KNOT SI CYPS PRISON

Men on parole are nearly twice as likely to be gay or bisexual (7. Acrdg to the Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force’s Injtice at Every Turn: A Report of the Natnal Transgenr Discrimatn Survey, nearly half of trans people reported that they do not feel fortable seekg help om police. 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.

RSIA ‘HAS SECRETLY OPENED NAZI-STYLE PRISONS WHERE HUNDREDS OF GAY MEN ARE HELD AND SOME MURRED,’ LOL REPORTS CLAIM

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”. Fally, gay mat ually stick together.

KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE

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.

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.

CHIGO RAPPER KG LIL JAY ADDRS ‘GAY’ ALLEGATNS AFTER PRISON VIO SURFAC

First, the relatnships are almost always kept on the DL, even if you are openly gay. Other observatns as a gay prisoner:. Some are gay and some aren't.

Regardls if you are gay or straight, dog time prison is extremely hard. When you are gay, 's a ltle different.

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.

[WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY

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.