Black Gay Youths turn to Gangs for Support & Protection

The lack of gay male role models and consistent bullying has brought young gays together in a not-so-great way... A gay gang:

To hear the leader of Check It tell it, there may be some truth to both.

“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.

D.C. police estimate that Check It has a core membership of about 20 and counts between 50 and 100 others as “associates.”

“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 really hope someone reach out to them fast. The bullying and abuse has pushed these youths to take matters into their own hands and that could be dangerous. I don't want this gay gang notion to cost them their lives.

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In The Bronx: The Gay Gang member Speaks about the Beating

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Gang Members purposefully Tortured a Gay Recruit

This is really sad to read about. Gang members purposefully beat and tortured a gay member their "organization".

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Seven of the suspects in the attacks were arrested and being held pending arraignment on charges of robbery, sodomy, menacing and assault as hate crimes. Two others were being sought.


Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the first of the four assaults in the most recent case occurred at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday.


The first victim, a 17-year-old potential recruit for the Latin King Goonies street gang, was grabbed by gang members and taken to an empty Bronx apartment they used for parties and sex, police said. The teen was stripped, beaten and sodomized with a wooden plunger handle, police said.


The attackers, apparently angry he was gay, yelled anti-gay insults and questioned him about his contact with a 30-year-old man, police said.

The second teen was assaulted at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday, police said. The 30-year-old arrived about an hour later with malt liquor, thinking he was going to a party. He was stripped to his underwear and tied to a chair opposite the other teen, who was forced by the angry mob to burn the man with cigarettes, police said. They beat the 30-year-old, forced him to drink copious amounts of the malt liquor he brought and sodomized him with a small baseball bat, police said.

This is terrible! Hopefully this gang member realizes this ain't the life at all.

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The Biggest Gang Takedown in History

This is very disturbing to hear, but it's all over town.

A Latino street gang waged a racist campaign to eliminate the city's black residents through attempted murders and other crimes, according to federal racketeering indictments unsealed Thursday.

Five indictments charged a total of 147 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang, and federal and local agencies arrested 63 of them by early Thursday, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien said at a news conference.

Another 35 defendants were already in custody on unrelated charges. Weapons and drugs worth more than $1 million also were seized in what O'Brien called "the largest gang takedown in United States history."

The indictments detail attempted murder, kidnapping, firearms, narcotics and other charges related to attacks by the gang, which is predominantly Latino and mainly operates in Hawaiian Gardens, a city of about 15,000 in southeastern Los Angeles County.

"(Varrio Hawaiian Gardens) gang members take pride in their racism and often refer to the VHG Gang as the `Hate Gang,'" the main indictment said. "VHG gang members have expressed a desire to rid the city of Hawaiian Gardens of all African-Americans and have engaged in a systematic effort to achieve that result by perpetrating crimes against African-Americans."

I don't even know what to think. This is so sad, foolish and crazy in so many ways. I hope that this incident don't pull our communities apart. We have to rise above this mess.

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Yes, there are Gay Gang Members

Interesting news and borderline "The Wire" type drama

A member of the Latin Kings gang who killed his lover was convicted Friday of first-degree murder, according to the Eagle-Tribune newspaper in North Andover, Mass.

After seven hours of deliberation, the jury found Christian "King Joker" Almonte, 26, guilty of murder last week for killing Willie Escobar, 41, out of jealousy -- Escobar was reportedly seeing other men -- and to cover up their relationship.

Escobar and Almonte had a secret relationship for several years, though it was on hold while Almonte served four years in prison.

Almonte stabbed his boyfriend 20 times in the victim's apartment with a kitchen knife in February 2008. Escobar had stab wounds to his heart, stomach, chest, and back, according to the North Andover Citizen.

Almonte will serve a life sentence in prison without the possibility of parole. Because Almonte stole Escobar's Toyota Camry and then gave it to a friend after the murder took place, he faces an additional 12- to 15-year sentence for motor-vehicle theft, to run concurrently with his life sentence. He also faces charges of armed robbery, armed carjacking, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and armed assault to rob, after allegedly taking part in a violent carjacking the day before Escobar was murdered.

Wow...That's all I can say.

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