Even though he was thereby essentially enslaved by his new "prison husband", he was grateful – because his days of "being the communal bitch were over". He went on to report how one of his rapists took a fancy to him and "purchased" him from the tier rep for $20. Having my mouth and anus aggressively penetrated by several strangers is anything but." "True enough, I am attracted to men and always have been, but in life, it's my choice whom I share a bed with it's intimate and personal.
It is also rape, just like the three forcible rapes were. Nothing is heaven about being intimidated into performing sexual acts. "Against popular opinion, jail is not heaven for a homosexual. I quickly learned that a snitch is a worse label than a fag.
"I dared not report anything because I was clearly warned that my life would be in jeopardy should I do so. I had no means to protect myself, being only 23 and scared for my life. After being raped, I performed acts by request. "My first week or so in general population was hell on earth.
The prison he was first sent to did actually have a separate tier for gay inmates, but according to Rodney, because he did not "appear overly effeminate" during his classification, he was placed with the general population and because it was supposedly rare to have a gay person slip through the cracks of the system, his fellow inmates took full advantage. Within days of his first entering prison, the 23-year-old Rodney claimed he was the victim of three separate sexual assaults, involving five different inmates. His account suggests that far from being a paradise, prison for gay men can be a living hell. He described a litany of brutal rapes, assaults, beatings and, eventually, the total abandonment of his male identity as his only means of survival in the hyper-masculine and often homophobic prison environment. One young man named Rodney, imprisoned for fraud and check-forging, sent me a detailed account of his life so far in prison. The reality of life in prison for homosexuals and transgender individuals does not appear to reflect this myth. His death sentence was later overturned (mostly because Burdine's public defender had slept through much of his trial), but the homophobic thinking – that prison is some kind of paradise for gay men – lingers on. After 17 minutes of deliberation, the jury obliged and sentenced Burdine to die. In 1984, when Calvin Burdine was awaiting sentencing for allegedly stabbing his gay lover to death, the prosecuting attorney encouraged the jury in his closing remarks to award Burdine the death penalty, rather than life in prison, on the grounds that sending a gay man to prison was akin to sending a kid to a candy store.
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