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The book artfully shifts from the conception of gays as victims of hate crime to gays as agents and offenders, all while challenging troubling racist stereotypes of queer and Black masculinities. In The Gang’s All Queer, Vanessa Panfil introduces us to a different world.

Most of these young men still present a traditionally masculine persona and voice deeply-held affection for their fellow gang members. You can select specific subjects that match your interests! The conversations that this book can facilitate will greatly impact how we think about crime and criminology, while developing queer, black, and racialized-inclusive criminological research.

While some were in the closet and others were openly gay, all were forced to reckon with an environment of hypermasculinity. If the highest praise is reserved for books that cause us to question deeply held beliefs, this book ranks among the best.

Meet gay gang members – sometimes referred to in popular culture as “homo thugs” – whose gay identity complicates criminology’s portrayal and representation of gangs, gang members, and gang life. Timely, powerful, and engaging, this book will challenge us to think differently about gangs, gay men, and urban life.

The book dives deep into the complexities of what it means to grow up queer in the hood and discusses how through gangs, disadvantaged youths can unite, feel empowered, and create their own families of support and protection even across lines of sexual identity.

Panfil provides an eye-opening portrait of how even members of straight gangs are connected to a same-sex oriented underground world. A new documentary, gay follows Geovany, a gay former gang hitman, who grapples with both his sexuality and his violent past.

In any case, Hollywood has occasionally picked up on the queer-gangster link, telling stories about some of cinema’s most seductive bad boys who also happen to fall for other boys. Request Exam or Desk Copy. Series: Alternative Criminology. Vanessa R.

A startling and essential book. Complicates assumptions that male gang members and active offenders are exclusively heterosexual and. Not only did Panfil have access to a group of men who were willing to tell all, she fully used that access to understand why a gay man would turn to a group thats stereotypically anti-gay.

A couple of mid-level leaders – El Baxter and El Medias – at that meeting suspected that the gang member in question, El Fénix, was something unforgivable, according to the laws of the MS And some perform in drag shows gangsta sell sex to survive.

This leads to a bigger picture and larger questions of violence and closeting, as well as problems with being black, gay and gangster. In vivid detail, Panfil provides an in-depth understanding of how gay gang members construct and negotiate both masculine and gay identities through crime and gang membership.

They also fight with their enemies, many of whom are in rival gay gangs. A sociologist black two years interviewing gay gang members.