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Black and Pink, First and Foremost, I want to thank you for my first newspaper 08/09/2018. Accepting me in your family. My black and pink family, I am new to the black and pink family. So allow me to tell you a little bit about myself. My is Andrew, but people call me Drew. I am bi male from Warwick R.I. Born in Providence R. I. I did grow up with my bio Family they were not fit parents very abusive, drinking, lots of drugs. I have two older brothers and one older sister, I am the baby in the family. Our grandparents raised us when I was, I believed 2, lived in Warwick for 18 years. I am high school graduate from Pilgrim HighSchool. I am 25 years old going to be 26 this year. I am 5’9, 182 pounds. Never done any time in the juvenile when I was a kid, teenage. I am white with a short fade hair cut, brown eyes and hair. I knew I was bisexual when my bio-dad touched me not ones, twice, but three times. So I knew when I was 15, 16, 17 years old. My grandparents kept me and my brothers away from me dad. His brothers and all because that side of the family was no good. When I was 15,16 years old my grandfather has past away 2005 and everything went downhill. Family went there own ways my grandmother lost the house we had in Warwick. So I was 18 I moved in with two gay married friends and they have two adopted sons, Carl and Louis. I got arrested April 2014 serving a seven year sentence on a charge I should not be in jail for. I was charged with a sex charge and I was in the intake in Cranston R.I for 882 days. Transfer to Maximum security in Charson. I Balme this on my father for what he has done to me, he ruined my life. I was 21 when I ever first got
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arrested. If my grandfather was still alive I would not be here and my father would have gotten his ass beat. I can’t go to medium because I am the victim. My father is still serving time for what he has done to me and other. To be truthful with you all how come I let it happened three times, because I was scared to say anything to anybody. I would have felt embarresed. To what we did not to know my dad and his brothers their multiply sex offenders they are never going to learn, I am a (?). I know what I did was wrong but in my right state of mind at that time I thought it was ok. and it was not if my family reading this I am truly sorry. (...) I have. selected few friends Mr. Gomes, Davis and Drew. Thank you all for keeping me on my feed. I want to give out a shoot to my family and friends. I am still in the closet and I am scared to come out I don’t like the fact how people be judging.
October/November 2018
‘17/Jan ‘18, and I feel like I need to tell my story, struggle, and the challenges I face being locked up for the first time in almost a decade. I don’t know if you will print this or not ... but I hope you do, for the sake of all the other LGBTQ people dealing with the same issues. I knew I was different from the age of six, when my friend and I experimented. And I really liked it. My mother caught us sucking on each other under a blanket one day. She banned me from ever seeing him again. I never did anything with a guy again, until I was 15 in juvie. I lost my virginity to him, and took his. From that point on I was bisexual.
Dear Black & Pink,
That was until thee years into my prison sentence. After I have been in many fights, sexually assaulted, and raped. I decided to myself I was going to discover my true self. That is first what I did; last year, I started identifying as genderqueer. My identifiers are they, them, and their. I don’t identify as either male nor female. I am who I am. And I don’t care what people think about me. I am beautiful in my own way and I am happy.
I am a white 26-year-old male.
Dustin H. (MI)
To my brothers and sisters I want to say hello and thanks for making me a part of the family. Andrew (RI)
This is my first time seeing and reading your magazine since I’ve been locked up in 2011. [The] articles and letters you have printed in your magazine are very helpful and supportive to me. It lets me know that I’m not alone in facing the challenges as an inmate in MDOC (Michigan Department of Corrections). I just got my hands on your Dec
Dear B&P Family: First of all let me take the time to thank all of my LGBTQ family and extended communities on Pride Day it is such an honor to have so many people from all different communities come not only to participate but to also support our LGBTQ movement during the Pride Day parade and for that on behalf of all the LGBTQ communities