The grim tth of beg gay prison | Sadhbh Walshe | The Guardian

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

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). 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.

THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON

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.

TWO BURGLARS SODOMIZED FOR FIVE DAYS STRAIGHT AFTER BREAKG INTO THE HOE OF NOTOR GAY RAPIST

"Agast popular opn, jail is not heaven for a homosexual. 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?

'TRAPPED': MZANSI ROMANTIC FILM TELLS BETIFUL STORY OF GAY LOVE

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. 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.