From "Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America" by Nathan McCall:

>I went to Pearly Blue and asked him what was up. "You ain't heard, man? They competin' for this new bitch that just came outta the Receiving Unit. Her name is Pauline. They waitin' to see who she gonna choose."

>The Richmond and Tidewater gangs each had their best rappers vying for Pauline's attention, and all kinds of candy, cigarettes, and other gifts were being sent to "her."

>I'd finished talking with a guy at one cell and moved to the next, and there he was, standing at the bars, looking straight at me. He was about 5'8" and very slender. Tan-complexioned and clean-shaven, he had long eyelashes and seemed to have plucked and arched his eyebrows like women do. His hair, long and straight, looked like it had been tinted a reddish blond. He even had his gray prison shirt rigged to look like a woman's blouse. Instead of buttoning it down the front and tucking it into his pants, like everybody else, he had left it unbuttoned and tied the tails together in a knot, revealing part of his flat chest and trim waist. His chin provided the only clue that he was a man. If you looked hard, you could see the outline of where he shaved.

>Pauline was eventually released back into the prison population. Whenever I saw him on the yard, I spoke to him briefly and kept walking. He made me feel self-conscious and awkward, and I felt even more uneasy about the prospect of being seen - by guards of inmates - talking with someone who was gay.

>Ultimately, Pauline chose as his man a smooth-talking gold-toothed player who was the quarterback for the Richmond Gang's football team. They walked around the yard together, like a couple on the streets. The prison vets and wolves looked on jealously. Guys in the Richmond Gang gloated. "She" belonged to them.

Or, you know, massive amounts of rape, sexual assault, and torture. It depends.

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