The Gang's All Queer: The Liv of Gay Gang Members on JSTOR

Contents:

• INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR
• THE PRICE OF BEG GAY THE MS-13 GANG? DEATH
• THE GANG'S ALL QUEER: THE LIV OF GAY GANG MEMBERS (ALTERNATIVE CRIMOLOGY, 9) PAPERBACK – AUGT 15, 2017
• THE GANG'S ALL QUEER: THE LIV OF GAY GANG MEMBERS
• GAYS THE GANG
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND A GANG

INSI A PRISON CELL FOR GAY FORMER GANG MEMBERS EL SALVADOR

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 PRICE OF BEG GAY THE MS-13 GANG? DEATH

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.

“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.

There are many stereotyp of and assumptns about street gangs, jt as there are many stereotyp and assumptns about gay men.

THE GANG'S ALL QUEER: THE LIV OF GAY GANG MEMBERS (ALTERNATIVE CRIMOLOGY, 9) PAPERBACK – AUGT 15, 2017

In movi and televisn, some of the most regnizable gay characters have been portrayed as effemate or weak; they’re “fashnistas” or “gay bt iends.

For my book “The Gang’s All Queer, ” I terviewed and spent time wh 48 gay or bisexual male gang members. All were between the ag of 18 and 28; the majory were men of lor; and all lived or near Columb, Oh, which has been referred to as a “Midwtern gay mec. The experience, which took place over the urse of more than two years, allowed me to explore the tensns they felt between gang life and gay manhood.

Then there were what I ll “hybrid” gangs, which featured a mix of straight, gay, lbian and bisexual members, but wh straight people still the majory. Bee even the ia of a gay man beg a gang fli the face of nventnal thought, the gang members I spoke wh had to nstantly rist or subvert a range of stereotyp and expectatns.

THE GANG'S ALL QUEER: THE LIV OF GAY GANG MEMBERS

I was openly gay – part of the “fay, ” as some of them put – and bee I was a stunt nductg rearch for a book, they were nfint that I stood a better chance of accurately reprentg them than any “straight novelist” or journalist. The gay men straight gangs I spoke wh knew precisely what was expected of them: be willg to fight wh rival gangs, monstrate toughns, date or have sex wh women and be fancially pennt. So most stayed the closet, ntug to project heterosexualy, while discreetly meetg other gay men unrground gay scen or over the ter.

In “hybrid” gangs (those wh a sizable mory of gay, lbian or bisexual people) or all-gay gangs, the men I terviewed were held to many of the same standards. Men gay gangs were expected to be able to build a public reputatn as a gay man – what they lled beg “known. ” Beg “known” means you’re able to achieve many mascule ials – makg money, beg taken serly, gag stat, lookg good – but as an openly gay man.

Cght between not wantg themselv or others to be prsured to act mascule all the time, but also not wantg to be read as visibly gay or weak (which uld ve challeng), ristance to beg seen as a “punk” or a phover was cril. It all seemed to e om a sire to upend damagg cultural stereotyp of gay men as weak, of black men as “adbeats” and offenrs, and of gang members as vlent thugs. One of the most pellg fdgs of my study was what happened when the gay gang members were risively lled “fag” or “faggot” by straight men bars, on b, schools or on the streets.

GAYS THE GANG

But was important to them to be able to nstct an inty as a man who wasn’t gog to be msed wh – a man who also happened to be gay. ” They were also willg to fend others rid as “fags” public, even though this uld signal that they were gay themselv.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

The ebacks challenge many of the assumptns ma about gay men – that they lack nerve, that they’re unwillg to physilly fight. It also munited a belief that was clearly nonnegotiable: a fundamental right to not be bothered simply for beg gay. Honorable Mentn, 2018 Distguished Book Award prented by the Amerin Soclogil Associatn's Soclogy of Sexuali Sectn The first si look at gay gang members.

WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND A GANG

Meet gay gang members - sometim referred to popular culture as "homo thugs" - whose gay inty plit crimology's portrayal and reprentatn of gangs, gang members, and gang life.

In vivid tail, Panfil provis an -pth unrstandg of how gay gang members nstct and negotiate both mascule and gay inti through crime and gang membership. The Gang's All Queer draws om terviews wh over 50 gay gang- and crime-volved young men Columb, Oh, the majory of whom are men of lor their late teens and early twenti, as well as on-the-ground ethnographic fieldwork wh men who are gay, hybrid, and straight gangs.