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.
Contents:
- YOUNG THUG AND FRIENDS CGHT WATCHG GAY FREAKY MOVI IN STUD
- INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
- YOUNG THUG SAYS HE’S NOT GAY: “I’M THE STRAIGHTT MAN THE WORLD”
- ‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
- THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
YOUNG THUG AND FRIENDS CGHT WATCHG GAY FREAKY MOVI IN STUD
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INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
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Rap lyrics have unniably advoted vlence agast gay people; the Goodie Mob once asserted, “P the hollow-pot tip / On this gay rights activist. “Homo thugz, ” though not ee to publicly display their affectn for other men, embrace hip-hop style. They value hip-hop’s rebelln agast whe mastream society more than whe gay culture’s perceived need for quot novelist Jam Earl Hardy explag the origs of the “homie-sexual” movement ’80s vogue balls, where “banjee boy” or “realns” tegori featured gay men strikg pos as, basilly, hip-hop tough guys.
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YOUNG THUG SAYS HE’S NOT GAY: “I’M THE STRAIGHTT MAN THE WORLD”
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Jake Gsky Mother Jon (March 2000) doubts whether any rerd pany would sign a gay rapper, bee the dtry is so foced on sellg a male “myth of toughns” and the unrground level, there have been cremental mblgs.
” Wobensmh, acrdg to Mother Jon, has sce abandoned his rerd is unenthiastic about the “homo thugz” trend, ntendg that, ultimately, only glamoriz vic behavr heterosexuals and ph gay men of lor eper to the closet.
‘EPIMIC OF VLENCE’: BRAZIL SHOCKED BY ‘BARBARIC’ GANG-RAPE OF GAY MAN
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As Rabow Flava’s Judge Mt says, may be a long time before most gay people are able to look at hip-hoppers as anythg other than “the kids who beat them up high school.
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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.
THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
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” 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. 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.
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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.
Throughout his reer, people have speculated that Young Thug is a gay man. "People say, 'gay, ' but nigga...