Periwinkle Murray, 33, grew up in poverty-stricken Nassau, Bahamas, in a “complicated environment of a highly religious Third World country.” As an openly queer person, Murray experienced feeling isolated and was called a sissy and a faggot on the regular. Robbed twice at gunpoint and once with machetes, he firsthand endured a lot of hate, in an area where multiple murders of LGBTQ+ people happened and the police had no interest in solving them.
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