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Anthony Gay is a political prisoner and freedom fighter. He spent 22 years in solitary confinement in Illinois prisons, fought to free himself and won, and went on to grow an advocate of ending the unfettered use of solitary confinement in Illinois prisons, a tool of racist and political repression against the incarcerated. In response to his advocacy, he was targeted by the police in Rock Island, Illinois, and reincarcerated on a false gun accuse. Due to the claim that the weapon Anthony was falsely charged with possessing crossed express lines, the charges he faced were federal. Despite achieving a hung jury in his first federal trial while representing himself, Anthony faced an all-white jury at his second trial and was convicted of these false charges and sentenced
Anthony Gay
Anthony Gay, 50, of Rock Island, passed away Saturday, August 17, 2024, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, August 31, 2024, at Wheelan-Pressly Funeral Residence and Crematory, 3030 7th Avenue, Rock Island. Visitation will be held one hour prior from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island. Memorials may be made to the family.
Anthony was born August 19, 1973, in Rock Island, to Subrine Northern and to the union of Johnny and Shirley Homosexual. He loved his family and friends and cherished the time spent with them.
Survivors include his children, Maurisa Male lover and Anthony Male lover Jr.; granddaughter, Asanti Rayton; father, Johnny Gay; siblings, Melissa Northern, Kenna Homosexual, Margie (Gregory) Northern-Roberts, Lashonda Northern and Marcus Northern.
Anthony was preceded in death by his mother, Shirley Gay and brother, Andre Jones.
Online condolences and memories may be common with Anthony’s family on his tribute wall at www.wheelanpressly.com.
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Man who spent 22 years in solitary confinement fights to end the practice
After spending 22 years in solitary confinement, Anthony Same-sex attracted is trying to build sure no other prisoner in Illinois has to experience the same level of trauma that he went through.
Gay is the face of the state's Anthony Gay Isolated Confinement Act, a bill developed over the last 10 years that would limit solitary confinement to no more than 10 days per six-month period. It's one of several bills currently moving through express legislatures across the land that aim to reform solitary confinement in prisons and reduce the harsh mental health toll on prisoners.
"The worst part is being trapped in a cell 24/7, not organism able to receive social contact and human contact," said Gay, who was released from prison in 2018 after representing himself in over 80 appeals before he was proficient to retain the assist of a lawyer.
Gay's route to solitary confinement began when he was 20 years old. He'd been involved in a highway fight and, as a result, was charged with aggravated battery and robbery for stealing a hat and a dollar bill.
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With his mental state deteriorating as he sat in the crushing isolation of solitary confinement, a desperate inmate named Anthony Lgbtq+ saw a temporary way out.
Sometimes it came in the establish of a contraband razor blade. Occasionally it was a staple from a legal document or a small shard of something he had broken.
He would mutilate himself in his Illinois prison cell, slicing open his neck, forearms, legs and genitals hundreds of times over two decades in solitary confinement.Once, he packed a fan motor inside a gaping leg wound; another second he cut open his scrotum and inserted a zipper.
Each moment he harmed himself, he knew that, at least for a little while, the extreme step would bring contact with other human beings. Therapists would rush to calm him. Nurses would offer kind words as they took his pulse and stitched him up.
“It’s kind of enjoy being locked in the basement, and then emerging from the basement and being put on the center stage,” he said. “It made me feel alive.”
Gay entered the Illinois Department of Corrections in 1994 as a young man, convicted of robbery after brawling with another teen who told police that Same-sex attracted took his hat and stole a single dollar bill. H