In the Gay Wg of L.A. Men's Central Jail, It's Not Shanks and Mugggs But Hand-Sewn Gowns and Tears - LA Weekly

Contents:

• NY DEFEATS GAY PAROLE OFFICER’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN BIAS APPEAL
• IN THE GAY WG OF L.A. MEN'S CENTRAL JAIL, IT'S NOT SHANKS AND MUGGGS BUT HAND-SEWN GOWNS AND TEARS
• “A GAY OFFICER CGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”
• THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?
• 2ND CIRC. WON'T REVIVE GAY PAROLE OFFICER'S RETALIATN SU

NY DEFEATS GAY PAROLE OFFICER’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN BIAS APPEAL

May 12, 2023, 3:51 PMA gay female parole officer waed too long to sue the New York State Department of Correctns and Communy Supervisn for alleged sexual orientatn bias and harassment, the Send Circu led cisn volved a mon law doctre known as the “mailbox le.

Santa Clara County Probatn Department - Juvenile Lbian Gay Bisexual and Transgenr Policy (2013).

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.

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

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.

“A GAY OFFICER CGHT BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”

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.

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.

THE HANDSOME UNRVER P S. IS HE ENTRAPPG GAY MEN OR CLEANG UP A PARK?

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.

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.

2ND CIRC. WON'T REVIVE GAY PAROLE OFFICER'S RETALIATN SU

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.