Gay prison gang

Warning : The following letter discusses topics such as emotional, verbal and sexual abuse, and has not been edited in any way. Proceed with caution if you may be triggered by these topics. It is not easy being Gay in prison. She told him that the fact she could be around so many homophobic men who constantly shun her and give her dirty looks and still maintain her feminine attitude shows she instead is the strong one.

The sound of a bed sheet being ripped into pieces can be heard against the silence of the night. The five MS13 gang members are preparing to kill two of their brothers at the Center for Reintegration of Minors in the municipality of Tonacatepeque. The gang members know what they have to do. This article was translated, edited for clarity and length and published with the permission of Factum.

They had an important decision to make: whether to kill a fellow gang member. He was gay. That he was trying to have sex with them inside the prison. His rank was only below that of the Ranfla bosses.

I was a gay man, convicted of a sex crime. But I had one thing going for me: I was big, weighing in at pounds, a fair amount of which was muscle. For the most part, other inmates left me alone. That is, until the other gays and trans found out about me.