Gay Gang

[hockeysweat]

Very sad but kind of awesome. It's how we roll in the District.

Gay black youths go from attacked to attackers - The Washington Post

“I just got tired of people beating on me and calling me faggie,” Tayron Bennett, 21, told me recently. He’d helped to organize Check It while a student at Hine Junior High School. Other gay youths from his Trinidad neighborhood in Northeast soon joined, followed by gay youths from throughout the city.

“At first, I tried fighting bullies one-on-one, but they don’t fight fair; they fight two and three on one,” Bennett said. So the youths got together and “started carrying mace, knives, brass knuckles and stun guns, and if somebody messed with one of us then all of us would gang up on them.”

I used to work at a GLBT community center in the inner city. The stories these kids tell about homophobia in the community and their struggles to stay alive, safe, sane, and proud are not often heard.

 

[Big Jake]

More power to 'em I say.