Gays Prison (2015) - IMDb

gay prison documentary

Gays Prison: Directed by Christopher H. Wh Carmen Carrera, Latrice Royale. Gays Prison is a documentary that puts Latrice Royale, popular star of RuPl's Drag Race, ont and center, as host, narrator and terviewer as she reveals her own experienc jail and explor the stori of gay men and out of prison. The film velops them of remptn, lsons learned and, y, even humor and love. The documentary also reveals gay prison pen pals and those on the outsi fdg love behd bars." data-id="ma

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10 DOCUMENTARI ABOUT BEG BLACK AND QUEER AMERIEDUTE {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY NEWNOWNEXT EDORSJUNE 5, 2020/12:56 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:3156PX;WIDTH:4643PX;}TED THAI/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN VIA GETTY IMAGUNITED STATES - JUNE 01: AUTHOR JAM BALDW (PHOTO BY TED THAI/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTN VIA GETTY IMAG)BY NEWNOWNEXT EDORSJUNE 5, 2020 / 12:56 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"10 DOCUMENTARI ABOUT BEG BLACK AND QUEER AMERI","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2020-06-05T16:56:44.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2020-06-05T16:56:44.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"NEWNOWNEXT EDORS","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN A WEEK SCE THE MURR OF GEE FLOYD, AN UNARMED BLACK MAN KILLED BY POLICE MNEAPOLIS, MNOTA. FLOYD’S KILLG—AND THE UNTIMELY ATHS OF UNTLS OTHER BLACK AMERINS, CLUDG TONY MCDA OF FLORIDA AND BREONNA TAYLOR OF KENTUCKY—HAVE PROMPTED PROTTS AGAST RACISM AND POLICE BTALY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WH MANY WAKG UP TO THE JTIC BLACK PEOPLE HAVE EXPERIENCED THE CENTURI SCE THIS NATN'S FOUNDG, HERE IS A LIST OF 10 DOCUMENTARI ABOUT BEG BLACK AND QUEER AMERI. NON-BLACK QUEER FOLKS—'S TIME TO START TG YOURSELF ABOUT ANTI-RACISM IF YOU HAVEN'T {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TONGU UNTIED (1991){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:75%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHEN MARLON RIGGS’ TONGU UNTIED PREMIERED ON PBS JULY 1991, URTED NTROVERSY WH NSERVATIVE POLICIANS AND PUNDS, WHO WERE OUTRAGED THAT PUBLIC MONEY WAS ED TO FUND A WORK THAT DICTED MAJORY CULTURE, AND PARTICULARLY THE TREATMENT OF BLACK GAY PEOPLE, AND THAT PICTED NUDY AND GAY MALE SEX. BUT RIGGS’ FILM, AID BY THE TENSELY PERSONAL SPOKEN-WORD POETRY OF ESSEX HEMPHILL, NNOT BE UNRTIMATED: IT TOOK ON RAMPANT RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC IOLOGI OUR UNTRY WH A RADIL AND SATIRIL VIEWPOT, AND ADDRSED THE SURGE OF THE AIDS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STILL BLACK: A PORTRA OF BLACK TRANSMEN (2008){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:75%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STILL BLACK: A PORTRA OF BLACK TRANSMEN, KORTNEY RYAN ZIEGLER’S GROUNDBREAKG DOCUMENTARY OM '08, IS PRENTED AS A LLECTN OF SIX SHORT BLACK-AND-WHE FILMS, WHICH "CHALLENG TRADNAL NOTNS OF BLACK MASCULY, SEXUALY, AND INTY." IN 2017, DARNELL MOORE WROTE FOR NEWNOWNEXT ON HOW, TO HIS KNOWLEDGE, WAS "THE ONLY FILM FOCED ON THE LIV OF BLACK TRANS MEN."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE NEW BLACK (2015){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FILMMAKER YOBA RICHEN'S AWARD-WNG 2015 DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR HOW THE GAY MARRIAGE MOVEMENT MARYLAND SHED A LIGHT ON HOMOPHOBIA WH THE BLACK MUNY AND THE BLACK CHURCH. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER LLED A "THOUGHTFUL EXAMATN OF SOCIALLY NSERVATIVE, CHURCH-BASED TRADNS RPONDG TO VOIC OF REFORM, MANY OF THEM ARISG WH CHURCHGOG FAI."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}TREASURE: FROM TRAGEDY TO TRANS JTICE MAPPG A DETRO STORY (2015){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}DIRECTED BY DREAM HAMPTON, THIS 2015 DOC CHRONICL THE LIFE AND MURR OF SHELLY “TREASURE” HILLIARD, A 19-YEAR-OLD TRANS WOMAN OM DETRO. PRISOURCE SAID TREASURE TAILS HILLIARD’S STORY "WHILE TERWEAVG A NARRATIVE OF THE BIAS FACED BY MANY TRANS WOMEN TODAY. THE FILM IS UNPOLISHED BUT FULL OF A GR THAT SEEMS NATURALLY PLEMENTARY TO THE DARK STORY TELLS."{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FREE CECE (2016){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2011, CECE MCDONALD, A TRANSGENR WOMAN OF LOR, WAS CHARGED WH SEND-GREE MURR AFTER FIGHTG BACK AGAST AN ASSAILANT ATTACKG HER AND HER IENDS. AFTER ACCEPTG A PLEA BARGA OF SEND-GREE MANSLGHTER, SHE SPENT THE NEXT 19 MONTHS A MEN’S PRISON, WHERE SHE WAS EQUENTLY PLACED SOLARY NFEMENT (SUPPOSEDLY FOR HER OWN PROTECTN). FILMMAKER JACQUELE GAR (IN THE LIFE) CHRONICL MCDONALD’S STGGLE, AS WELL AS THE DAY SHE WAS RELEASED {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JEWEL'S CATCH ONE (2016){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}JEWEL’S CATCH ONE IS A DOCUMENTARY THAT SH A LIGHT ON THE LEGACY OF ONE OF AMERI’S OLST BLACK AND QUEER-OWNED DISS, AND THE LIFE OF S OWNER, ENTREPRENR AND ACTIVIST JEWEL THAIS-WILLIAMS. HER STORY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF HER NIGHTCLUB IS ONLY JT NOW BEG WRTEN TO HISTORY AFTER CLOSG S DOORS ON JULY 18, 2015, BUT THAIS-WILLIAMS IS CREDED FOR CREATG SAFE SPAC FOR QUEER, BLACK, AND AIDS IMPACTED MUNI LOS ANGEL FOR OVER 40 YEARS WHILE FACG RACISM AND GENR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON (2017){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MARSHA P. JOHNSON PLAYED A PIVOTAL ROLE THE STONEWALL RTS BACK 1969, BUT HER UNTIMELY ATH LEFT THE LGBTQ MUNY NVCED SHE WAS MURRED. MORE THAN 25 YEARS AFTER HER BODY WAS FOUND FLOATG THE HUDSON RIVER, THIS 2017 NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY EXPLOR THE TRANS ACTIVIST’S LEGACY, AS WELL AS THE MYSTERY SURROUNDG THE END OF HER LIFE. DIRECTED BY OSR-NOMATED DOCUMENTARIAN DAVID FRANCE, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON FOLLOWS TRANS ACTIVIST VICTORIA CZ AS SHE ATTEMPTS TO UNVER THE TTH ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HER FORMER IEND, WHILE CELEBRATG HER ACPLISHMENTS AND NTRIBUTNS TO THE LGBT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CHECK IT (2017){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIS CRILLY ACCLAIMED FILM, DIRECTED BY DANA FLOR AND TOBY OPPENHEIMER, CHRONICL THE D.C. GANG OF THE SAME NAME THAT HAS RALLIED TOGETHER FOR PROTECTN AND SUPPORT. THE THEM OF THE DOC ARE BOTH UNIVERSAL AND SPECIFIC TO YOUNG QUEER PEOPLE OF LOR LIVG ONE OF THE WORST PARTS OF D.C.: CHECK IT HAS NEARLY 200 MEMBERS, MOST OF WHOM MAKE MONEY “MTG CRIM LIKE PETTY THEFT, ROBBERY, AND RJACKG,” ACRDG TO FLOR. THEY’RE TRYG TO TURN THGS AROUND—TO TURN AWAY OM VLENCE AND CRIME—BUT ’S NOT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2017){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT MDS OF THE 20TH CENTURY, BALDW ARTICULATED THE PROBLEM OF RACE AMERI BETTER THAN PROBABLY ANYONE EVER OR SCE. AND HE WAS UNAPOLOGETILLY GAY—HIS 1956 NOVEL, GVANNI’S ROOM, WAS A MASTERPIECE OF QUEER LERATURE. THE 2017 DOCUMENTARY REVIV BALDW’S GENI FOR CULTURAL ANALYSIS AND CRIQUE A TIME WHEN IS NEED MORE THAN EVER: RAOUL PECK’S I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO SEEKS TO RECREATE BALDW’S LAST, UNFISHED WORK: A PROJECT LLED “REMEMBER THIS HOE,” CHRONICLG THE LIV OF HIS SLA IENDS, CIVIL-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MEDGAR EVERS, MALLM X, AND MART LUTHER KG, {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NEON (2020){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}EARLIER THIS YEAR, GLAAD LNCHED NEON, A DIGAL DOCUMENTARY SERI AIMED AT HIGHLIGHTG BLACK LGBTQ {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WE HOPE TO HELP SHIFT THE NARRATIV OF UNRREPRENTED MUNI MEDIA, PECIALLY FOR THE BLACK LGBTQ MUNY AND THEIR ALLI,” SAID DASHAWN USHER, GLAAD’S PROGRAMS OFFICER, MUNI OF LOR, AND PRODUCER OF NEON. “WH AN CREASE VLENCE AND MURRS OF BLACK TRANS WOMEN, LGBTQ YOUTH SUICIS, AND A CREASE LGBTQ ACCEPTANCE, NEON AT A TIME WHEN ’S ABSOLUTELY CRIL TO SHOWSE DIVERSE, FAIR, AND ACCURATE REPRENTATNS OF BLACK LGBTQ PEOPLE WH THE MEDIA.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS

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INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

Patrick Abboud’s Greatt Menace podst reveals the untold history of a jail set up to rcerate gay men and experiment to fd a ‘cure’ for homosexualy." name="scriptn * gay prison documentary *

But Riggs’ film, aid by the tensely personal spoken-word poetry of Essex Hemphill, nnot be unrtimated: It took on rampant racist and homophobic iologi our untry wh a radil and satiril viewpot, and addrsed the surge of the AIDS Black: A Portra of Black Transmen (2008)Still Black: A Portra of Black Transmen, Kortney Ryan Ziegler’s groundbreakg documentary om '08, is prented as a llectn of six short black-and-whe films, which "challeng tradnal notns of Black masculy, sexualy, and inty.

"The New Black (2015)Filmmaker Yoba Richen's award-wng 2015 documentary explor how the gay marriage movement Maryland shed a light on homophobia wh the Black muny and the Black church. And he was unapologetilly gay—his 1956 novel, Gvanni’s Room, was a masterpiece of queer lerature. 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.

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

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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.

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Also notably, William Hurt beme the first performer to w Bt Actor for playg a gay man. After a r crash, Rsell realiz he's gay and pledg to live life to the fullt. 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.

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In Marlén Viñayo's documentary 'Unfivable', Geovany and his partner live wh other gay former gang members a cell El Salvador's San Francis Gotera prison.

”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 soon as Martez left the prison and got his r, he lled Marlén Viñayo, 33, a Spanish director livg El Salvador, to tell her what he’d seen.

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)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. The gay marriage bate Atralia had boiled over, and while he was verg an anti-gay marriage prott, the openly gay journalist was mobbed and the SBS work Christmas party, he was unwdg wh a uple of drks, then planned to h the dancefloor before gog home and takg a break om reportg for a while. Journalist Patrick Abboud has created a podst about the world’s only gay Rohan ThomsonThat was exactly when his iend and -worker Simon Cunich walked up to him to say he’d received an trigug story tip.

“Simon said a iend of an acquatance had told him that there had once been a prison somewhere NSW that was set up to rcerate gay men, ” says Abboud. ’”Abboud, wh Cunich as -producer, voted the next three years of his life to fdg out about , and the rult is The Greatt Menace, an eight-part Audible Origal lotn of the jail NSW shocked Patrick Rohan ThomsonIt sounds like somethg out of Rsia or East Germany or the US ep south, but happened Cooma, the small town an hour-and-a-half drive south of Canberra known as the gateway to the Snowy 1957, the town’s jail, which had been closed the early 1900s, was re-opened wh a new rem – was to be a prison for homosexuals.

Abboud disvered that the prison was a ordated effort between ernment and police to provi a pool of subjects for study and experimentatn to disver a “cure” for homosexualy.

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As Abboud searched for throughout the seri, he felt that “they eher didn’t disver what they wanted, and uldn’t cure homosexualy, so they need to bury the report, or the thgs they did were so horrific that they never wanted anyone to see the tail.

”Homosexualy was a crime NSW until 1984. Abboud terviews gay men now their 70s and 80s who tell raw and revealg stori of beg targeted, entrapped and arrted by unrver police at gay beats such as public toilets, parks and beach. And here Atralia, the seeds of were planted that gay prison Cooma.

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