While the correctional officer tells our cameras that issues involving LGBTQ kids inside the prison are common, a staff program director gets in a heated discussion with the boys trying to...

May 9, 2024 · It's bad enough to be Black and incarcerated. But to be gay as well poses a triple challenge. Leon Lipscomb tells it like it is.

Mar 23, 2023 · Being gay in prison is merely a smaller experience of what being gay in south central Phoenix is like on a normal day. In my experience, though, being a gay man has meant that I have to …

What follows are 10 things I learned from the perspective of a gay man and ex-inmate at a federal prison camp. FYI: there is a big difference between a camp and penitentiary.

In layman's terms, the men on this site want someone positive to talk to. Prison officials agree that establishing and maintaining a positive connection with upstanding members of society is important …

I’ve always been gay, but I’ve never been overtly effeminate. Coming from a family of several positive male role models, I never had to hide who I was, so I never did.

At Black & Pink, we coordinate a nationwide PenPal program in which we match incarcerated LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS with PenPals who correspond, build …

Feb 13, 2025 · Incarcerated writer Tony Vick shares the realities of being openly gay in prison, detailing the dangers of misclassification, coerced sex, and the impact of the Prison Rape Elimination Act …

In prisons, 33.3% of women and 5.5% of men identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual, compared to 7.6% and 6.8%, respectively, in the general population.5 In jails, 26.4% of women and 3.3% of men …

In men's prisons, inmates who are known or perceived as gay or effeminate face "a very high risk of sexual abuse".