In the Gay Wing of L.A. Men's Central Jail, It's...Hand-Sewn Gowns and Tears [Barf Alert!]

LA Weekly ^ | Nov 18, 2014 | Ani Ucar

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With rouged lips, long hair and a strut that would give Naomi Campbell pause, Dave Williams, 47, works the 75-foot runway that stretches between crowded rows of green chipped-paint bunk beds at the L.A. County Sheriff’s Men’s Central Jail.

Williams, a transgender inmate known on the inside as Yah Yah, glides past a hooting and hollering crowd of her fellow gay and transgender inmates, perched atop their beds for a prime view. She’s flaunting a white cotton halter-top baby-doll dress and matching white Cinderella gloves, hand-crafted for her by one of the trans women inside this infamously tough downtown L.A. jail.

Laughing onlookers chant, “Work it, Yah Yah!” “Perform honey!” “Better work that runway!”

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Duncan Roy, a gay British film producer who was held in K6G for 89 days without bail in 2012, under ex–Sheriff Lee Baca’s controversial interpretation of “immigration holds,” recalls, “In other parts of the jail, you try and smuggle in drugs and cigarettes. That didn’t happen in our wing.

“If you were going to smuggle something in, it would be dresses and bras.”

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FULL TITLE: In the Gay Wing of L.A. Men's Central Jail, It's Not Shanks and Muggings But Hand-Sewn Gowns and Tears

Excusa, please. I throw up.

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[2ndDivisionVet]

[Vendome]

Queer Hall. ..

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I thought jail was supposed to be a punishment.

[Cowboy Bob]

Why are so many Gays criminals?

[tumblindice]

There aren’t many things more depressing in this idiot’s tale than an aging, trannie prison bitch with his blown-out colon, trying to vamp the cell block like Gloria Swanson rooting for a camera.

Autocorrect wants trannie as tyranny. Considering current events, AC is prolly right.

[gunsequalfreedom]

I thought jail was supposed to be a punishment.

I'm sure the guards don't mind.

[smoothsailing]

From stealing all those dresses and bras.

[Veggie Todd]

Put them in general population and let them earn their keep.

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I wouldn’t rule it out.

[48th SPS]

This is just disgusting........

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Ya think?

[Trillian]

I am Lorde.. Yah Yah Yah.

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Reality is going to put South Park out of business.

[drew]

“Her” fellow inmates? Uh, no.

[RichInOC]

LA Sheriffs call the high-security block the high-power block. I guess this would be the high-drama block.

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Welcome to Bizarro World.

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You ain’t kidding.