<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:
- TRAPPED GAY WORLD
- THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
- TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST
- 'TRAPPED': MZANSI ROMANTIC FILM TELLS BETIFUL STORY OF GAY LOVE
TRAPPED GAY WORLD
The story of the only straight person the Ultimate Gay World! * trapped gay *
Nice first gay date film. There’s a creepy, homoerotic-horror feel to the film, and Rubenste mak a likable, good-lookg lead- which mak what happens to him all the more upsettg.
He travels to the untry to meet his boyiend’s mother who had no ia her ad son was gay or had a lover, and the sry brother Francis (Pierre-Yv Cardal).
THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
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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.
"Agast popular opn, jail is not heaven for a homosexual.
TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST
Forty years ago, dozens of people were trapped si a New Orleans gay bar as burned down. Now a new book, two films, an art stallatn, and a mil revis the tragedy. * trapped gay *
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. Fally, Gee's landlady picked the boys up that night, and the next day a neighbor took them to the airport to fly home to Alabama, all the while not tellg them the ugly tth of why Dad never do you tell an 11-year-old that his father was burned alive, his body wrapped about his boyiend, the two men charred and clgg to each other, lovers life and ath, while tryg to pe the worst mass killg of gays Amerin history? Gee's son Duane didn't know his dad was gay but lls him a hero PRIDE IN THE '70SIt was the sweltergly humid last day of gay pri the South's most tolerant cy, and the fourth anniversary of New York's Stonewall Rts -- an actn thought unnecsary New Orleans.
As Clayton Delery, thor of the upg book Neteen Mut of Hell, told The Huffgton Post's Gay Voic, "Thgs on the surface weren't as bad as they had been New York 1969. Gay people lived relative peace. Townsend wr that bee the club was outsi the gay area of the French Quarter, the men worked extra hard to draw people wh dancg, sgg, and live piano by popular cktail lounge mician David Gary.
'TRAPPED': MZANSI ROMANTIC FILM TELLS BETIFUL STORY OF GAY LOVE
A new short film lled 'Trapped' tells the story of two women love a nservative society. The lol productn aims to te people about gay love. * trapped gay *
Though the Christian worshippers were as vout as any flock the South, a church n by gay, bi, and transgenr people wasn't wholeheartedly wele the lol muny. It had been more than a year sce the last gay bar raid, but you uld never be sure, hence the add secury.
Gay thor Townsend, who wrote about the tragedy two s ago, was able to talk wh many survivors of the fire, no easy feat, says Anrson, who adms gettg people to talk about today is difficult.
"Also, many folks om that generatn don't want to be known to be gay to the public; the peer prsure is still evint today. "Toni Pizanie, who thors a lumn lled Sapphos Psalm for Ambh, the lol gay paper, wasn't at the UpStairs Lounge that night but says happened while she was still the closet and ma an impact on her. "I told gay acquatanc, I didn't know anyone that died.