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Celebrating the strength and resilience of Black-led/serving organizations all week. Join us in recognizing the remarkable work of the Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project! 🏳️🌈 👇 Learn more about #BLMP here: Guided by a team of individuals directly impacted, the Black LGBTQ+ Migrant Project (BLMP) is dedicated to creating a world where forced migration is eradicated, and Black LGBTQ+ liberation prevails. Utilizing organizing, base-building, strategic communications, and a focus on long-term viability, BLMP strives to cultivate Black queer power, community, and access amid systemic challenges. The BLMP "envision[s] a world without borders, rendering the word “immigrant” obsolete: a world where all Black people and our loved ones have housing, bodily autonomy, health, and the ability to move and travel freely, with dignity, free of criminalization, anti-Black racism, misogyny, and all forms of transphobia and homophobia.” The Project actively contributes to national resistance efforts against enforcement, detention, and deportations within criminal justice and migrant rights movements. BLMP manages six programs: Deportation Defense, the Malaika Network, Garifuna Organizing, Fierce Freedom School, Regional & National Membership, and the Border Butterfly Project. 🟣 To learn more about BLMP and offer your support, explore the links below. Join them in shaping a world that champions equality and justice for Black LGBTQ+ migrants. 🟠 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gYTP_pBw [Image description: Against an organge background is a photo of a BLMP program cohort smiling toward the camera. Underneath, the graphic reads, "BLACK LGBTQ+ MIGRANT PROJECT. Based in Oakland, California, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Houston, Texas." The graphic also includes BLMP's logo.] #LGBTQEvents #LGBTQTaskForce #LGBTQSupport #LGBTQyouth #LGBTQrights #LGBTQRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQActivism #LGBTQPride #LGBTQFaith #LGBTQCommunity #LGBTQIACommunity #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #QTBIPOC #CreatingChange #WeAreCreatingChange

This insightful article by colleague, Tenesha Myrie really lays out the legal position of women and LGBTQ+ people in the Caribbean, our barriers to equal citizenship, current movements and recommended directions. Solid!

We're pleased to share some recent developments and initiatives across the Americas and Caribbean region, showcasing our commitment to fostering international collaboration and promoting shared values. 🇦🇷 On May 28th, Argentina and the EU reaffirmed their commitment to human rights by holding their eighth annual dialogue. This year’s discussion focused on LGBTQ+ rights, protections for Indigenous communities, and digital freedom, demonstrating their dedication to working together through the EU’s Global Gateway program. 🇨🇦 European Union Chamber of Commerce in Canada (EUCCAN) had a productive EU-Canada Roundtable Discussion on CETA with H.E. Melita Gabrič, EU Ambassador to Canada, and Brian Glynn, Managing Director for the Americas. The discussion centered on strengthening EU-Canada relations through CETA, highlighting mobility provisions and clear pathways to Canadian residency. 🇨🇱 Fundación Eurochile launched ‘Círculo Empresarial’ in April, a new platform connecting Chilean and European entrepreneurs globally. This initiative offers increased visibility, networking opportunities, and access to business experts, facilitating growth and expansion into the European market. We look forward to continuing to build on these successes and create even more opportunities for growth and partnership. 🤝 #EBOWN #EuropeanBusiness #GlobalGateway #EUBusiness #HumanRights #TradeRelations #Networking #Entrepreneurship

Happy Pride Month! Did you catch our logo change? We updated it this year to center the community members historically left out of the conversation about LGBTQ+ rights. IDP stands with people of all gender and sexualities fighting for dignity and justice, and will never be silent while the crim-imm system is used to threaten LGBTQ+ safety. LGBTQ+ people - especially people of color - are disproportionately targeted by the criminal legal system. And those born outside of the US face double punishment in the immigration system through threats of detention, deportation, or loss of status. Immigrant LGBTQ+ people face an uphill battle in their fight to remain in the US with loved ones, as arrests and convictions are used to paint them as undeserving of safety. The government is intent on maximizing deportations, including denying asylum to LGTBQ+ people facing persecution. This targeting of LGBTQ+ folks for criminal arrest and then deporting them to face life-threatening persecution directly contributes to the alarming human rights crisis in the LGBTQ+ community. As Pride months come and go, IDP continues to fight for a more fair and just immigration system so that no one–including immigrant LGBTQ+ people–is treated as disposable.

This is why LGBTQ+ inclusion is so important in the UK and in Scotland. I will never stop advocating for trans and non-binary people and I will never stop talking about our rights and experiences in this country. Scotland is not immune to the increase in hate and anti-trans attitudes that we're seeing across the rest of the UK. LGBT Youth Scotland's Life in Scotland Report 2022 found that only 65% of LGBTQ+ young people think Scotland is a good place to live. This has dropped significantly from 81% just five years ago in 2017. In education, only 10% of LGBTQ+ young people rated their school experience as 'good', and 36% of respondents believe that discrimination has affected their educational attainment. Since 2020-2021, hate crime for LBG+ people has increased by 10%, and for trans people it has increased by 68%. There is still work to do. Allyship is more crucial than ever. Trans people are wildly misunderstood and dehumanised by our politicians and media, and we live with the consequences every day. We are just normal people, trying to live happy lives. https://lnkd.in/eecZ-stG LGBT Youth Scotland - Life in Scotland for LGBT Young People: https://lnkd.in/e4wBGQS4 #transrightsarehumanrights

"Queer people have never been the focus of history, since their stories have often been omitted, denied or silenced. LGBTQ+ History Month aims to rectify this gap, and to build a more respectful and inclusive society for all people. I work as an LGBTQ+ workshop facilitator, and so I often spend time with queer asylum seekers. I know that the UK’s asylum system is incredibly hostile towards Muslim asylum seekers. Workshop facilitators will often suggest taking a photo together at the end of our activities, and of course many queer asylum seekers are uncomfortable with this, because they want to protect their anonymity and their identity, and do not want their families back home to know about their sexuality. However, I know that the workshop facilitators mean well, because many of them have been through the asylum system themselves, and know that photographic evidence is incredibly important in “proving” one’s sexual orientation. We have to talk about how onerous the burden of proof is for queer asylum seekers who have to navigate the hostile immigration system in this country". Read the reflections of a queer Chinese international student and member of our network, as part of our LGBTQ+ History Month x Who Is Welcome? campaign, here: https://buff.ly/42L3eMG #LGBTQHM #WhoIsWelcome

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Navigating the U.S. immigration system is challenging, especially for the LGBTQ+ community. Click through to read the event recap of “LGBTQ+ Immigrant Representation," hosted by UH Law Center Immigration Clinic. https://loom.ly/LhqsNVw #LGBTQrights #ImmigrationAwareness #KnowledgeIsPower" #WeareHoustonLaw #HoustonLaw

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"Migration, queerness and history are processes. History is a process of creating an accepted collective narrative of the past. Queerness involves freedom and self expression, but is also a deeply layered identity process, and a journey with many stages. It can be difficult and traumatising navigating society’s attitudes towards queerness, but ultimately, queerness allows us to understand ourselves more fully, and is a vehicle for self discovery. I don’t think that many people think about migration as a process underlied by queerness. But they are deeply related. Both are identity processes that involve struggle and joy and a myriad of emotions. Both are journeys of leaving the familiar behind and embracing the unknown. Both identities are constructed and come into being through one’s interaction with the world around them. LGBTQ+ History Month is important because it is a chance to rewrite history so that it becomes more representative of what actually happened, and to remember and honour the truth about what happened. It also allows queer people all over the world to see themselves represented, and to see that the possibilities of a dignified life are as much their entitlement as anyone else’s. If LGBTQ+ History Month can offer representations of queer migrants living their joy, then queer migrants all around the world are more likely to want to live their joy too". Read more reflections by our ambassador Javier Mármol Queraltó: https://buff.ly/48wKgLg #LGBTQHM #WhoIsWelcome