<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>
Contents:
- A FERAL MATE THREATENED ANOTHER FOR BEG GAY. THEN GUARDS MOVED THEM TO THE SAME CELL.
- THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
A FERAL MATE THREATENED ANOTHER FOR BEG GAY. THEN GUARDS MOVED THEM TO THE SAME CELL.
Invtigators found that 28 guards and prison officers mted offens the mishap that allowed a gay mate to be hoed the same cell as an aber. * gay rape jail *
It was early Augt said Arapahoe — who is gay and Native Amerin — told her that other Native Amerin mat were makg threats toward him and that he felt his life would be danger if he was not placed protective ctody, acrdg to a feral urt had specifilly named another mate, William officials vtigated her claims, terviewg Arapahoe, who told them Mexin, named as a gang reprentative urt documents, and other Native Amerin mat had “voted [Arapahoe] off the yard, ” for beg gay, the plat also terviewed Mexin and the others, acrdg to the plat, but found “no verifiable threat” to two months later, Mexin was transferred to Arapahoe’s cell.
THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
* gay rape jail *
Mexin said he had heard Arapahoe was gay, and acrdg to the urt plat, he mand Arapahoe give him money.
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
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. 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.