LGBT Month Celebrated in Federal Prison: A Validation for Lives Dismissed

LGBT Month Celebrated in Federal Prison: A Validation for Lives Dismissed

At the start of June, pink flyers announcing LGBT Month started appearing around FCI Petersburg, a medium-security federal prison in Petersburg, Virginia, where I am incarcerated. The fliers, along with many colorful postings in the Education Department, explained what LGBT means: lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. They profiled famous and successful LGBT persons and generally strived to inject an element of understanding into the prison population, a population somewhat low on the concepts of compassion and understanding — particularly as it concerns gender and social issues.

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