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Jaboukie Young-White and Issa Rae are working on a show together? And it’s about gay gang members?

According to the Hollywood Reporter, HBO has greenlit a tv series adaption of Vanessa R. Panfil’s noun The Gang’s All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members. Writer-comedian Young-White will write the half-hour show’s script and executive produce it. Meanwhile, HBO producer Issa Rae will work with her Hoorae production company to support Young-White executive produce the series. They’ll be joined by 3 Arts in that endeavor.

So far, all that we know about the series adaption is that it “revolves around a closeted twenty-something in Chicago who, grieving a gang-related death, ditches college to find reckless closure.&#;

But, we do know more about the book’s story. Check out the original book description below:

“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. In The Gang’s All Queer, Vanessa Panfil introduces us to a different world. Gather gay gang members – sometimes referred to in popular cu

The Gang's All Queer

"The Gang's All Queer not only provides an exciting and well-off description of gay gang life, but it exposes the ease with which we'd heretofore seen gangs as an entirely (unexamined) heterosexual enterprise. A startling and essential book." ~Michael Kimmel,author of Annoyed White Men: American Masculinity at the End of an Era

"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." ~Jody Miller,author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence

"This book makes a substantial contribution to queer criminology. 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. 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 rese

There are many stereotypes of and assumptions about street gangs, just as there are many stereotypes and assumptions about gay men. Pretty much none of those stereotypes overlap.

In movies and television, some of the most recognizable gay characters have been portrayed as effeminate or weak; they’re “fashionistas” or “gay best friends.” Street gang members, on the other hand, are often depicted as hypermasculine, heterosexual and tough.

This obvious contradiction was one of the main reasons I was drawn to the subject of gay gang members.

For my publication “The Gang’s All Queer,” I interviewed and spent time with 48 gay or bisexual male gang members. All were between the ages of 18 and 28; the majority were men of color; and all lived in or near Columbus, Ohio, which has been referred to as a “Midwestern gay mecca.”

The experience, which took place over the course of more than two years, allowed me to explore the tensions they felt between gang life and gay manhood.

Some of the gang members were in gangs made up of primarily gay, lesbian or bisexual people. Others were the only

Texas Officials Complicit in Gang Rape and Sexual Slavery of Gay Black Guy, ACLU Charges

Roderick Johnson, a Navy veteran serving period for a non-violent crime, has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every day.

In a legal complaint that reads appreciate a nightmare scenario from the graphic HBO prison drama ""Oz,"" the ACLU detailed the story of year-old Navy veteran Roderick Johnson of Marshall, Texas, who for the last 18 months has been bought and sold by gangs, raped, abused, and degraded nearly every sunlight.

""Prison officials knew that gangs made Roderick Johnson their sex slave and did nothing to facilitate him,"" said Margaret Winter, Associate Director of the ACLU's National Prison Project. ""Our lawsuit shows that Texas prison officials believe black men can't be victims and believe gay men always want sex -- so they threw our client to the wolves.""

According to the ACLU complaint, Johnson appeared before the prison's all-white classification committee seven separate times asking to be placed in safe keeping from predatory prisoners. Instead of prote