A new documentary, 'Unfivable,' follows Geovany, a gay former gang hman, who grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past.
Contents:
- 10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
- THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
- COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'
- UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
- PELíCULAS Y DOCUMENTAL SOBRE AMOR GAY EN LA CáRCEL
- [WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY
- KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
- CHIGO RAPPER KG LIL JAY ADDRS ‘GAY’ ALLEGATNS AFTER PRISON VIO SURFAC
10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
I thought as a gay man beg sent to prison my life was over. I learned that 's not like they show movi. 10 thgs I learned as a gay prisoner. * prision gay *
What follows are 10 thgs I learned om the perspective of a gay man and ex-mate at a feral prison mp.
But even then, don’t expect fair treatment – particularly if someone wh thory don’t like gay people. While the film was not overtly gay -- censorship would have prevented that at the time -- the lbian unrton are hard to 's Prison MassacreThis 1983 horror film follows Emanuelle, a reporter sent to prison on tmped-up charg. Gay and bisexual men reported that while they were “fairly” or “totally” open about their sexualy on the wg, they were discreet about their sexual activi and relatnships.
One heterosexual man said that he had had nsensual sex wh gay or bisexual prisoners “out of necsy”. Some terviewe observed that they had known some openly homosexual upl beg allowed to share cells some stutns. One terviewee reported that a senr officer had moved a young prisoner, who had nfid he was “nfed” about his sexualy, to the cell of an openly gay, olr prisoner, orr to help him “sort himself out”.
INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
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"Bee a lot of people who go to prison go to prison straight -- and when they e out, they're gay.
THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
<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> * prision gay *
We’ll jump to the pot here: There is no nclive evince to support Carson’s claim that "a lot of people" make a swch om heterosexual to homosexual while prison. Further, the medil muny tends to nclu that homosexualy is not a matter of choice -- notably the Amerin Psychologil Associatn.
COOMA JAIL: PRISON THAT WAS ONCE 'WORLD'S ONLY JAIL FOR GAY MEN'
Informatn about the rights of lbian, gay, and bisexual dividuals who are prison, and the available reurse for vlatns of the rights. * prision gay *
Of those 24, 18 changed om straight to bisexual, three changed om bisexual to straight, and one each changed om bisexual to gay, gay to bisexual, and gay to straight.
It’s possible that people go to prison unaware of their sexualy, and then once they are exposed to homosexual behavr as an mate, they realize that they are gay or bisexual, Helen Eigenberg, who also studi prison sexualy as a profsor at the Universy of Tennsee at Chattanooga, said an terview wh PoliFact. They might thk that jt bee they played a role a homosexual act, they are now gay, which is not necsarily te. Greg Herek, a psychology profsor at the Universy of California Davis who studi sexual orientatn, poted to a natnally reprentative study that shows the vast majory of gay men and women do not perceive their sexual orientatn as a rult of choice.
People n change their behavr -- such as engagg homosexual behavr prison -- but that do not equate to a change orientatn, Bailey, the Northwtern rearcher, told PoliFact.
UGANDA'S LGBTQ MUNY IS ' SHOCK' OVER NEW MEASURE, GAY ACTIVIST SAYS
Varias películas y documental han llevado al ce historias parejas gay cuyo amor floreció en la cárcel a par las adversidas. * prision gay *
PoliFact, "Tim Pawlenty says scientists are " dispute" over whether beg gay is a choice, " July 13, 2011. PoliFact, "Tim Pawlenty says there's no scientific ncln that beg gay is geic, " July 13, 2011.
Sexual Rearch and Social Policy, "Demographic, Psychologil, and Social Characteristics of Self-Intified Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults a US Probabily Sample, " September 2010. Although there has grown up to a nsirable lerature on sex experienc prison, ltle has been wrten on the post-prison behavral patterns of those who, voluntarily or voluntarily, bee iated to homosexualy while rcerated. 42) suggts that sexual experienc prison may have permanent effects on the liv of some of the participants: "Can such men return to nventnal heterosexual liv after release, or has the experience of beg forced to acts of passive homosexualy been so trmatic as to preclu the rumptn of sexual relatns wh members of the oppose sex?
PELíCULAS Y DOCUMENTAL SOBRE AMOR GAY EN LA CáRCEL
Gay, bisexual and transgenr mat at California's San Quent State Prison meet weekly wh once-homophobic offenrs for a rtorative jtice group. * prision gay *
" In a search for an answer to his qutn, the prent paper studi ex-prisoners whose iatn to homosexualy occurred durg prison. 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. ” 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. Livg the isolatn cell wh his partner and other gay mat, he grappl wh both his sexualy and his vlent past. “How is possible for a untry to have s moral pass so broken that homosexualy and murr n feel the same?
[WATCH] UNSEEN FOOTAGE OF KG VON CLAIMG HE’S GAY TO BE PLACED PRISON PROTECTIVE CTODY
Anthony Gay, who lls solary nfement ‘wrong, spible and horrible’, hop bill passed by lower hoe will bee law * prision gay *
“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.
KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
An alleged vio of Kg Lil Jay kissg another prison mate after which the said mate ss on his lap has given rise to 'gay' mors. * prision gay *
) 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. More than 78 percent intified themselv as heterosexual, and 8 percent intified themselv as homosexual; slightly more than 13 percent intified themselv as bisexual. The maximum-secury un had more self-intified homosexuals and bisexuals than the other two stutns.
The study did not fd an elevated rate of nsensual homosexual activy by the mat pared to the amount which they engaged prr to rceratn. One-fourth of the prison sample dited they had engaged some form of nsensual homosexual activy while rcerated; 18 percent had engaged homosexual activy prr to rceratn. The -prison homosexual activy found this study was not as high as that reported by other studi.
CHIGO RAPPER KG LIL JAY ADDRS ‘GAY’ ALLEGATNS AFTER PRISON VIO SURFAC
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.