because half of the ones who are telling you not to do it, are the ones doing it in the closet. and in this environment, sexual partners can turn into blood enemies in the blink of an eye. in here you don t have no friends, i suppose, because you can laugh and you can sit up and talk and play cards and dominos and whatnot, but the minute something happen to you, they all go the other direction. leave you to die. and they got a lot of people up here call each other loved ones, i love you, i got love for you, you are my home boy. but the minute you do something they don t like, they ll cut you. that s what pelican bay is about. but we have met many openly gay inmates who have little or no fear about being who they are. yeah, they call me amy. why? i chose that name. i want to live my life as a girl. i ve always felt like i was a girl. when we met matthew campbell he was serving 12 years for armed robbery and assault at kentucky state penitentiary. but his troubles began muc
the ones that prefer to fix up as a girl. and we call each other girls. you understand. some of the dudes around here they call you girl. call me girl this and that. but then have you those that smile in your face and laugh at you behind your back. you walk around the track, you hear somebody call, look at that punk. that [ bleep ], a bunch of disrespect day in and day out. green told us that those who are open about their sexuality face retribution from other inmates. you have people that are undercover. you got people that are hiding in the closet. that are doing each other. but the minute they see somebody that is flamboyant, that s out, that they don t understand, then they have something against that. and they go through their fear every day, every day, with a bunch of people telling you what you can and can t do, who you can live with and who you can t live with because of your sex sexual preference is wrong,
her son reuben stood in as best man. you have a ring picked to go on your hand. this wedding dress. she sees me, the person inside, that i m a human being. she opened up her house, her heart and gave me her family. i raul take you leticia. i raul take you leticia. to be my wedded wife. to be my wedded wife. to have and to hold from this day forward. to have and to hold from this day forward. i m the black sheep of my family. i am the only one that has ever been to prison. i leticia take raul to be my wedded husband. to be my wedded husband. to have and to hold from this day forward. to have and to hold from this day forward. i have been thinking about the sacrifice she made. how much she loves me to do something like that. as you take this ring and place it on her hand, raul, would you repeat after me. i give you this ring i give you this ring
so, in this funny little way, the cats contributed to a lower level of violence on that yard. vet comes once a month. you can buy dry food and medicine and toys and stuff like that. some guys work hard at their jobs to earn their money. and they ll spend it on sometimes their vet bill is 60, 70, 80 bucks, takes everything they got. my baby. i wish you cats would get together and get rid of some of the rats we got running around this yard. don t want any rats, man. the people rats. now you leave the little bitty mice alone. we found an even more unlikely bond at california state prison corcoran. just like anything, treat it with love and respect, they ll treat you with love and respect back. we were just kind of out on the yard shooting. i looked over and saw these guys petting something.
with. he was a drug dealer. it was a robbery gone bad. and he got killed. and i left the crime scene with the guy who killed him because i was it was a bad situation. but in prison, the two women seem to have discovered a comfort zone. you get in here and you don t have anybody, you don t have anything. so you sort of cling to somebody. and women are more affectionate or whatever, anyway. so it looks like normal couples on the streets but it s all women. some look like boys. yeah, they shave their head and walk around like a little boy. , yeah they even hold themselves like there s something down there. yeah, yeah. but any relationship in prison involves towing the line. a new couple is like the staff sort of zone in on them, give them a hard time, but then after a while it s just like they get used to seeing them as a couple and they sort of ease off. you can t, you know kiss in front of them or do a sex act in front of them but they re not on you for every little thi