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This leads to a bigger picture and larger questions of violence and closeting, as well as problems with being black, gay and gangster.
Panfil...let[s] her informants give voice to their lives and concerns.
A fascinating and eye-opening portrait of young queer men involved in this countrys gang underworld, which is typically associated with hypermasculinity.
Thug addressed both issues in the same podcast.
The Gang’s All Queer draws from interviews with over 50 gay gang- and crime-involved young men in Columbus, Ohio, the majority of whom are men of color in their late teens and early twenties, as well as on-the-ground ethnographic fieldwork with men who are in gay, hybrid, and straight gangs.
“I ain’t mad at you for being gay, so what… I don’t want the [LGBTQIA+] to even think that I’m against them,” he added.
Thug’s comments triggered an immediate backlash online. In The Gang’s All Queer, Vanessa Panfil introduces us to a different world. 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.
Many argued that bringing up sexuality felt unnecessary in a conversation about loyalty.
Some listeners, however, didn’t see the remarks as outright bigotry. “If I look at you, if I meet you and you gay, it’s like, ‘Okay.’ If I meet you and you portraying that you a man and you’re not gay — I don’t got nothing against gay people.
You got a nice girlfriend, you’re ugly, you can’t rap, you’re the hardest.”
These past incidents give context to the new remarks. Young Thug Slammed for Comments on Gay Men appeared first on LBS.
The Gang's All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members
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Many people believe that gangs are made up of violent thugs who are in and out of jail, and who are hyper-masculine and heterosexual.
Still, even Akademiks admitted the remarks were uncalled for.
Young Thug once played with gender norms.
Thug’s comments were shocking to many, as the rapper has never shied away from non-traditional gender norms. . .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.
Wesley Crichlow,author of Buller Men and Bwatty Boys:
This book makes a substantial contribution to queer criminology.
Here is a look at what he said.
Young Thug can’t look at gay men “the same.”
He told host Big Bank that he has “nothing against gay people” and even employs gay associates.
The Gang’s All Queer poignantly illustrates how these men both respond to and resist societal marginalization. . . 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.
Jody Miller,author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence:
The Gangs All Queer offers a treasure trove of insights for gang scholars, but more importantly, demonstrates how much we all have to gain by embracing the queer criminological turn.
Michael Kimmel,author of Angry White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era:
The Gang's All Queer not only provides an exciting and rich description of gay gang life, but it exposes the ease with which we'd heretofore seen gangs as an entirely (unexamined) heterosexual enterprise.
. “No matter what they say. A startling and essential book.
The Gang's All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members
Honorable Mention, 2018 Distinguished Book Award presented by the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Sexualities Section
The first inside look at gay gang members.
Many people believe that gangs are made up of violent thugs who are in and out of jail, and who are hyper-masculine and heterosexual.
Some are still closeted to their fellow gang members and families, yet others fight to defend members of the gay community, even those who they deem to be “fags,” despite distaste for these flamboyant members of the community. Complicates assumptions that male gang members and active offenders are exclusively heterosexual and . Most come from impoverished, ‘rough’ neighborhoods, and seek to defy negative stereotypes of gay and Black men as deadbeats, though sometimes through illegal activity.
its influence is likely to eventually spread far beyond the academy.
Ariveting look at identity construction, the qualities of 'real'men, boundary maintenance (the things we do to present ourselves as wed truly like to be seen), and so many other nuanced components of the gay criminal lifestyle.If the highest praise is reserved for books that cause us to question deeply held beliefs, this book ranks among the best.
British Journal of Criminology:
Panfil’s text shines a warm sharp light on the complex politics of masculinity and sexual identity among gang-involved men… Through a combination of methodological rigour, human engagement and stylistic verve, Panfil portrays a fluid repertoire of responses to the tension between masculinity and sexuality that exposes not only gang masculinity but the gang itself as a fragile construct.
An interesting take on a world that never makes the headlines.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.
paves the way for a more in-depth understanding of a marginalized community.
Panfil seeks to complicate the popular narratives surrounding gang members and the hypermasculine, hyper-heterosexual lives they lead.