Gay, bisexual and transgenr mat at California's San Quent State Prison meet weekly wh once-homophobic offenrs for a rtorative jtice group.
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10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
* gay prison inmates *
Ten years ago, Rafeal “Nephew” Bankston land solary nfement San Quent State Prison for refg a gay cellmate. “Where I grew up, we lled gay bashg, ” he said. He entered prison at 18 and said he learned at a young age to hate gay and trans a life later, he wants to talk about Jsie Smollett.
CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY & BISEXUAL
He wants to know how his LGBTQ peers feel about Smollett now that the TV star’s reported anti-gay hate crime has been refuted by Chigo Police. On a phone ll wh NBC News, Melenz, who has sce been released om prison, rattl off the slurs he ed as he burst to a hoe and killed two prison, Melenz said he had a lot of time to thk, not jt about the crime he mted at 19, but about the homophobia behd .
“I actually took offense at people who were agast gay marriage, ” he 2015, when ACT started formg, Melenz took his own life experienc and ed them to help sign a curriculum for other straight peers the class.