# Homosexuality in prison

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-in-prison/4698>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 25, 1999, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-in-prison/4698 "1999-10-25T22:55:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nickrz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 1999, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/homosexuality-in-prison/4698/41 "1999-11-12T20:26:00Z")

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Lenny Bruce on prison homosexuality (specifically, the BOA)

## “True magazine just came out with this vicious expose of the Birdman of Alcatraz. The book’s a hoax and the movie’s a joke. True tells you why. Are you ready for this? Reason number one. Dig: ‘The Birdman of Alcatraz is a self-confessed ho-mo-sex-u-al!’ Well isn’t that a kick in the ass? He’s been in the joint fifty-seven years! Look at all the cunt he coulda’ had, and he turns out to be a faggot! I don’t know about you, Jim, but if you put me on a desert island for three months without chicks, I’ll do it to mud! Here’s reason number two: ‘The Birdman of Alcatraz is a menace to the younger inmates.’ Oh, sure - like the ones sixty-three, sixty-five…”

## And with that, I’ll send this thread off to Great Debates. Nickrz

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