he is, and he don t get in no trouble, he don t bother nobody then nobody ain t got no business putting their hands on him. i get offensive like that. having a relationship with gay men or straight men here? straight. straight guys? yeah. they gay too, though. actually, in their mind they re just gay for that minute. after it s over with, they ain t gay no more. but wait till the next time, then they re gay again for another minute. as for their future, both men were serving life sentences. though tunstall would someday qualify for parole, mcmillen had life without. i know i m going back to the free world one day. so you know, the only thing i can do is make the best out of my situation. so i kick it around individuals with minds on the street. that way i won t fall victim to whatever is going on inside these walls. you have a lot of people that don t understand time because they don t have any.
my initial concern was they were making fun of him either for being interviewed or because of his relationship with kenyatta, and then i realized he just took it in stride, almost seemed pleased and proud about the situation, and then just kept going. if someone walks up here and calls him your boyfriend or girlfriend or something like that, how do you react? it wouldn t matter. i don t react on stupidity. tommy, would you two be friends on the street? yeah. yeah. his homosexuality is not a factor? no. i don t look at individuals by what they do or what they is or what they done did. i mean, we re all humans. through all my relationships that i ve been with with guys, he s been tight, he s been right there supportive of me. we ve been close. real tight. real friends. partners. would you say you love him? as a friend, yeah. normally, mcmillen and tunstall live in the dorms together, but during our stay at holman they were separated.
always been there for me, no matter what, and he ain t never changed or turned his back on me on nothing. mcmillen and tunstall had been friends for about three years when we met them at holman. it done got to the point to where it s like if i m thinking about something, before i can get it out, he can say it. and it s vice versa. do you identify as gay? do me do i do? yes. you re gay? yes. i was fascinated by the friendship between kenyatta and tommy. kenyatta is openly gay and tommy was openly straight. and it seemed to me that their friendship was truly platonic but very bonded. they were obviously an amazing
sometimes death. but at the holman correctional facility in alabama an inmate nicknamed cheese curl told us a very different story. why are you called cheese curl ? because i like cheese curls. when is the last time you had a cheese curl? last night. by all appearances, tommy cheese curl tunstall, serving life for robbery, was one of holman s most popular inmates. tommy was an interesting inmate to interview, actually, because he seemed very calm and confident. quietly confident. bring your ass on. [ bleep ]. more often than not, when we would start interviewing tommy, inmates would start yelling things at him. you ve got to tell me what the deal is with you. everybody you could run for president in here. i guess i get along with everybody. but tunstall chooses to spend much of his time with just one man, kenyatta mcmillen, who is serving life without parole for murder. i love cheese because he
my initial concern was they were making fun of him either for being interviewed or because of his relationship with kenyatta, and then i realized he just took it in stride, almost seemed pleased and proud about the situation, and then just kept going. if someone walks up here and calls him your boyfriend or girlfriend or something like that, how do you react? it wouldn t matter. i don t react on stupidity. tommy, would you two be friends on the street? yeah. yeah. his homosexuality is not a factor? no. i don t look at individuals by what they do or what they is or what they done did. i mean, we re all humans. through all my relationships that i ve been with with guys, he s been tight, he s been right there supportive of me. we ve been close. real tight. real friends. partners. would you say you love him? as a friend, yeah. normally, mcmillen and tunstall live in the dorms together, but during our stay at holman they were separated.