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Contents:
- THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
- CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY & BISEXUAL
- 10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
- WERE GAY CONCENTRATN CAMP PRISONERS 'PUT BACK PRISON' AFTER WORLD WAR II?
- HOW TO FD A GAY PRISONER PENPAL AND WHAT TO KNOW WHEN YOU DO
- RIGHTS OF GAY PRISONERS - A CHALLENGE TO PROTECTIVE CTODY
- GAY MAT TIE THE KNOT SI CYPS PRISON
- KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
THE GRIM TTH OF BEG GAY PRISON
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New data LGBT people across all mographics are at heightened risk of vlent victimizatn Prison Policy Iniative, November, 2022“Lbian and gay people experienced 44 victimizatns per 1, 000 people, which was more than twice the victimizatn rate of straight people (19 per 1, 000 people).
CATEGORY ARCHIV: GAY & BISEXUAL
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. * gay prisoners us *
Visualizg the unequal treatment of LGBTQ people the crimal jtice system Prison Policy Iniative, March, 2021“The data is clear: lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people are overreprented at every stage of crimal jtice system, startg wh juvenile jtice system volvement. The Overreprentatn of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Qutng, Genr Nonnformg and Transgenr Youth Wh the Child Welfare to Juvenile Jtice Crossover Populatn Angela Irve and Aisha Canfield, April, 2016(The experience of crossg om the child welfare system to the juvenile jtice system is important to thk about bee is a measure of the heightened vulnerabily and margalizatn of LGBQ/GNCT youth, pecially LGBQ/GNCT youth of lor. Injtice at Every Turn: A Report of the Natnal Transgenr Discrimatn Survey Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly; Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, 2015“One-fifth (22%) of rponnts who have teracted wh police reported harassment by police due to bias, wh substantially higher rat (29-38%) reported by rponnts of lor.
The Unfair Crimalizatn of Gay and Transgenr Youth: An Overview of the Experienc of LGBT Youth the Juvenile Jtice System Center for Amerin Progrs, June, 2012“Gay, transgenr, and genr nonnformg youth are signifintly over-reprented the juvenile jtice system--approximately 300, 000 gay and transgenr youth are arrted and/or taed each year, of which more than 60 percent are black or Lato. Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Youth: An Epimic of Homelsns Natnal Coaln for the Homels, 2006“LGBT youth face the threat of victimizatn everywhere: at home, at school, at their jobs, and, for those who are out-of-home, at shelters and on the streets.
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.
10 THGS I LEARNED AS A GAY PRISONER BEHD BARS
An onle edy seri highlighted the fact that the end of the war did not mean the end of persecutn for many gay German men. * gay prisoners us *
His ath sentence was later overturned (mostly bee Burde's public fenr had slept through much of his trial), but the homophobic thkg – that prison is some kd of paradise for gay men – lgers realy of life prison for homosexuals and transgenr dividuals do not appear to reflect this myth.
WERE GAY CONCENTRATN CAMP PRISONERS 'PUT BACK PRISON' AFTER WORLD WAR II?
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He scribed a lany of btal rap, asslts, beatgs and, eventually, the total abandonment of his male inty as his only means of survival the hyper-mascule and often homophobic prison environment.
His acunt suggts that far om beg a paradise, prison for gay men n be a livg days of his first enterg prison, the 23-year-old Rodney claimed he was the victim of three separate sexual asslts, volvg five different mat. The prison he was first sent to did actually have a separate tier for gay mat, but acrdg to Rodney, bee he did not "appear overly effemate" durg his classifitn, he was placed wh the general populatn; and bee was supposedly rare to have a gay person slip through the cracks of the system, his fellow mat took full advantage.
It's difficult to asss how typil Rodney's prison experience is, but numero studi nducted by the Bure of Jtice Statistics, based on anonymo mate surveys, have shown that gay and transgenr mat are among the most targeted groups for sexual victimizatn.
HOW TO FD A GAY PRISONER PENPAL AND WHAT TO KNOW WHEN YOU DO
Informatn about the rights of lbian, gay, and bisexual dividuals who are prison, and the available reurse for vlatns of the rights. * gay prisoners us *
Jt Detentn Internatnal (JDI), an anizatn whose aim is to eradite prison rape (pdf), is tryg to change has been workg wh the California Department of Correctns and Rehabilatn (CDCR) to tablish "sensive needs yards" (pdf), where gay, transgenr and other vulnerable mat n serve out their time safety.
RIGHTS OF GAY PRISONERS - A CHALLENGE TO PROTECTIVE CTODY
"I had no ia that I was about to be tortured for s," Anthony Gay said. * gay prisoners us *
LGBTQ people are at creased risk for beg targeted for sex crim, as historil prejudice and stigma have picted LGBTQ people—pecially gay/bisexual men—as sexual predators. The average age among rponnts was 51; 87% were Whe; and 20% intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, queer/pansexual, and/or transgenr (LGBTQ). 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. 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.
GAY MAT TIE THE KNOT SI CYPS PRISON
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. Sexual Rearch and Social Policy, "Demographic, Psychologil, and Social Characteristics of Self-Intified Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults a US Probabily Sample, " September 2010.
KG LIL JAY SLAMS GAY MORS AFTER VIO OF MAT KISSG PROMPTS TROLLS’ RPONSE
1This is an tertg time the changg legal landspe relatg to gay and lbian prisoners, but public and scholarly attentn is lackg. Rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred prisoners are often nceived of eher long-tablished ncerns relatg to guards’ discrimatn or newly popular attentn to the special needs of transgenred prisoners.
Although the are important issu, such a foc n lead advot and urts to overlook the evolvg standards (or stagnant polici, spe apparent potential for progrs) regardg the rights of gay and lbian prisoners.