Gay by force

Sexual assault of LGBTQ individuals refers to the act of sexual violence against persons who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender amongst other sexualities and sexual minorities. Ampon was born in the Bay Area in to a Filipino father and Irish mother, who soon split up.

Undercover cops who posed as potential sex partners entrapped men in public parks and restrooms. Now in its Fifth Edition, clinicians still rely on it in diagnosing mental disorders. The car sped south along the California coast stretching, snapping the ties of family and home.

With humour and vibrancy, it shows what gay recruits in the armed forces have endured. France, despite having legalized gay marriage inhas seen a rise in homophobic violence in.

When Gayness was a

You can listen to the audio documentary here. Spider, spider, along the ceiling slide spin your prison cell locking me inside, now should my fearful trembling send a tremor through your webbed descent then it is true what I surmise that men their dreadful dooms devise on as thin a silk as yours.

Republish This Story. The year-old Gene Ampon agreed to an interview in August Wind chimes that Ampon collected cover the porch. Ampon suffered a stroke in and at the time of the interview had just completed a round of chemotherapy for cancer in his liver and lungs.

Sodomy and oral copulation carried more serious consequences. Charges included solicitation, loitering, vagrancy and indecent exposure.

A secret history of

His story is part of a dark history when gay men, and even teens, were confined by the state and subjected to treatments that today would be considered torture. Two words seem to define the history of gay people in the US military: service and secrecy.

Ampon was just 16 years old when law enforcement delivered him to the locked hospital. The teens at Atascadero were in the minority, housed with grown men, some of whom were seriously mentally ill and had committed violent crimes. It was the early s, and across the country, state laws and psychiatric diagnoses had converged to create a grim era for LGBTQ people — especially gay men.

Sitting, watching his childhood fade thru the rear-view mirror into mile-long years of fog behind. One day, while he was having lunch at a diner, officers strolled in to question him. But Ampon was a juvenile, so all he had to do to get locked up was skip school and hang around the gay scene.

Hodgesthe case giving gay couples the right to marry. This hard-hitting documentary reveals the abuse suffered by the gay community all over the world. Soon, Ampon was lying about where he was spending the night to hang out with other gay teens — and hook up with men for a place to sleep and a free meal.

Texasa case that struck down sodomy laws; and Obergefell v. Money was tight and chaos in his home life gave him the freedom to explore. Like everyone committed to Atascadero, Ampon was considered a patient, not a prisoner. Connecticuta decision granting married couples the right to contraception; Lawrence v.

Ampon insists that his years at Atascadero do not define him.