A new documentary, 'Unfivable,' follows Geovany, a gay former gang hman, who grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past.
Contents:
- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
- 'UNFIVABLE' DIRECTOR: 'IF THE GANG KNOWS YOU'RE GAY, THEY KILL YOU'
- LEARN ABOUT THE GAY GANG THAT SUPPORTS S MEMBERS BEHD BARS
- QUEER CRIPS: DISABLED GAY MEN AND THEIR STORI
- WAS NIPSEY HSLE A GAY INFORMANT SNCH? ROLLG 60S CRIP RPONDS TO WACK100 EXPOSG ALLEGED CRIP SECRETS
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
A soclogist spent two years terviewg gay gang members. While some were the closet and others were openly gay, all were forced to reckon wh an environment of hypermasculy. * gay crips *
There are many stereotyp of and assumptns about street gangs, jt as there are many stereotyp and assumptns about gay men.
'UNFIVABLE' DIRECTOR: 'IF THE GANG KNOWS YOU'RE GAY, THEY KILL YOU'
* gay crips *
In movi and televisn, some of the most regnizable gay characters have been portrayed as effemate or weak; they’re “fashnistas” or “gay bt iends. This obv ntradictn was one of the ma reasons I was drawn to the subject of gay gang members.
LEARN ABOUT THE GAY GANG THAT SUPPORTS S MEMBERS BEHD BARS
For my book “The Gang’s All Queer, ” I terviewed and spent time wh 48 gay or bisexual male gang members. All were between the ag of 18 and 28; the majory were men of lor; and all lived or near Columb, Oh, which has been referred to as a “Midwtern gay mec.
QUEER CRIPS: DISABLED GAY MEN AND THEIR STORI
The experience, which took place over the urse of more than two years, allowed me to explore the tensns they felt between gang life and gay manhood.
WAS NIPSEY HSLE A GAY INFORMANT SNCH? ROLLG 60S CRIP RPONDS TO WACK100 EXPOSG ALLEGED CRIP SECRETS
Some of the gang members were gangs ma up of primarily gay, lbian or bisexual people.
Others were the only gay man (or one of a few) an otherwise “straight” gang. Then there were what I ll “hybrid” gangs, which featured a mix of straight, gay, lbian and bisexual members, but wh straight people still the majory. Bee even the ia of a gay man beg a gang fli the face of nventnal thought, the gang members I spoke wh had to nstantly rist or subvert a range of stereotyp and expectatns.
I was openly gay – part of the “fay, ” as some of them put – and bee I was a stunt nductg rearch for a book, they were nfint that I stood a better chance of accurately reprentg them than any “straight novelist” or journalist. The gay men straight gangs I spoke wh knew precisely what was expected of them: be willg to fight wh rival gangs, monstrate toughns, date or have sex wh women and be fancially pennt.