This group decides what’s right the relationship or the street cred, they don’t agree and it takes a lot of threats and emotion to get there. July 20th, 1995.
“You shouldn’t be with him for one. You shouldn’t be with an enemy if he is a female or a male…”
The audience learns early in this clip that there are lots of gay gang members, as the panel struggles with questions about where the loyalties really lie. The sexuality doesn’t seem to be a primary concern it has to do with whether they’ll be there for their homeboys. They gangbang, they shoot, but sometimes they fall in love across enemy lines.
Jamie is happy the way he is. Fellow gang members might not approve of a gay relationships but that’s not going to stop him. They don’t make a big show of it and when it’s time to spend together they step back from their crews.
Two straight gang members are on set and they disapprove of all of it, calling them traitors in disguise. The drive by shootings, the crime, all that is fine but this gay stuff….. Tense confrontational attitudes are on stage as many guests threaten each other for various reasons.
This day, Geraldo’s Television History.