Coming Out
Many LGBT inmates who are able, even those who are openly gay outside of prison, carefully hide their sexual identities while imprisoned, because inmates who are known or perceived as gay, especially lesbians and gay men with stereotypically effeminate or butch characteristics, face "a very high risk of sexual abuse."
Read more about this topic: LGBT People In Prison
Famous quotes containing the word coming:
“Under that wide hearth
a nest of rattlers,
they’ll knot a hundred together,
had wintered and were coming awake.
The warming rock
flushed them out early.”
—Robert Morgan (b. 1944)
“The parson was working his Sunday’s text,—
Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed
At what the—Moses—was coming next.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)