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
- NAYIB BELE DICE NO AL MATRIMON GAY
- RINTE CLASH WH EL SALVADOR’S PRO-LIFE, ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PRINT ON IG LIVE
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
But for some groups, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people, El Salvador provis no safe haven. The social media savvy ndidate said he had gay iends and acquatanc, but add that marriage uld only happen between a man and a woman. In a untry where, acrdg to the Pew Rearch Center, more than 60 percent of the populatn nsirs society should reject homosexualy, where women n be imprisoned for havg a misrriage, and where one of the polil parti ntendg for the princy (Vamos) csad agast anythg related to LGBT rights, some nsir Bele’s lewarm posn is foremost a polil lculatn.
Activists participate a march agast homophobia on May 17, 2018 San Salvador.
NAYIB BELE DICE NO AL MATRIMON GAY
The prison director showed him an isolatn cell, where ne former gang members—om each of the untry’s three ma anized crime groups, MS-13, and two factns of Barr 18—had been moved after g out as gay. “Bee the gangs, if there’s even the spicn that you’re gay, you pay for wh your life. ” In this particular prison, San Francis Gotera, the east of the Central Amerin untry, gang culture was not the only source of vilent homophobia.
The state had effectively ced ntrol of daily life si Gotera to church lears, who preach that homosexualy is a s as grave as vlence. 8—follows Geovany, a gay man who worked as a hman for Barr 18 and left the gang 2016. Livg the isolatn cell wh his partner and other gay mat, he grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past.
RINTE CLASH WH EL SALVADOR’S PRO-LIFE, ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE PRINT ON IG LIVE
Homosexualy remas taboo and vlence and discrimatn agast LGBTQ people is rife. “How is possible for a untry to have s moral pass so broken that homosexualy and murr n feel the same?
“But the tth is that they are already nmned: they’ve left the gang; they’ve lived wh former members of other gangs; and they’ve lived openly as gay people, ” she says. The homosexual is the same, ” says a pastor one terview laid over a scene of him preachg to rapturo crowds the prison urtyard. ) Martez says the film is not an attempt to reem the subjects “jt bee they’re gay, jt bee they n show love or tenrns.
Señaló, amás, que en la actualidad no hay ley que perman a las parejas homosexual o otras variant accer a rechos social s su pecificidad. En enero 2018, la Sala lo Constucnal enó la ratifición una reforma a la Constución, aprobada por la Asamblea Legislativa en el 2015 n la que se pretendía prohibir el matrimon gay. Wrapped an quiry about how Bele is protectg this populatn, Pérez asked Bele for his thoughts on gay marriage: He is agast any and all discrimatn, but no, he do not support .