Gay for the stay

Gay men who enter prison remain gay when they are released. Heterosexual men who experience inmate-to-inmate sexual violence while in prison come home to unsuspecting women and the community with myriad mental and physical issues.

Many of these women will have identified as heterosexual—colloquially, they were, “gay for the stay.” When Kristine Bunch was wrongfully imprisoned for the death of her son (she served a year.