Acting with Compassion and Truth

ACT members in a class session Acting with Compassion and Truth (ACT) is a first of its kind of prison program that explores how cultural differences affect the way people with diverse sexual orientations are treated. The group consists of LGBTQ people as well as heterosexual/cisgender people. California prison officials and a journalist came to San Quentin, on April 10, to see how ACT functions. A Hmong inmate, Lee Xiong, told a compelling story about how his culture treats gay people. He said that if a father, traditional Hmong … [Read more...] about Cultural differences affect the way peoples’ sexual orientations are treated