Trans Queer Pueblo is a base-building racial and gender justice organization that is collectively governed by a growing membership of 300+ trans and queer undocumented and documented migrants and people of color in Phoenix who organize to transform our city toward fellowship, family, community autonomy, self-determination and liberation.
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We are an autonomous LGBTQ+ migrant community of color who works wherever we find our people, creating cycles of mutual support that cultivate leadership to generate the community power that will liberate our bodies and minds from systems of oppression toward justice for all people. Our projects are focused on creating health justice and autonomy including a free clinic, building the power of migrant mothers through theater and literature, ending the criminalization and incarceration of LGBTQ+ people of color through community-run legal clinics and support of LGBTQ+ detainees throughout Arizona, reclaiming our own stories through art and media, inserting our voices into politics and public life through creative and strategic direct actions and campaigns like #NoJusticeNoPride and #EndManifestationLaw and building local queer and trans economies by creating cooperatives and businesses run by TQPOC. We combine service providing and community organizing to create autonomous community power to transform our city.
Self-identifying as a trans* organization that fights for LGBTQ rights and human rights, Istanbul LGBTI Solidarity Association formed in 2007 in response to experiences of transphobia.
Self-identifying as a trans* organization that fights for LGBTQ rights and human rights, Istanbul LGBTI Solidarity Association formed in 2007 in response to experiences of transphobia in larger LGBT groups and out of a need to provide a space that recognized how gender identity, class and ethnicity interacted with sexual orientation. Their core activities include providing legal and social support to LGBT people who experience discriminatory or violent policing practices, monitoring transphobic hate crime cases, conducting street actions to protest human rights violations and raise awareness of trans* issues, engaging in broader movement advocacy to include SOGI protections in Turkey’s constitution, and providing trans-sensitive sexual health and psychosocial counseling. They recently supported production of a documentary film “Trans X Istanbul,” which was presented at the Istanbul International Film Festival in international competition section and won a Special Mention/Face Award. The film was used to launch a campaign against transphobic hate crimes and hate speech called the “We need a law!” campaign. Launched on Trans Day of Remembrance, 70 people from 7 cities mobilized and marched together to the parliament in Ankara. In 2013, they launched the “Trans* Guest House Project,” which continues to serve as a transitional home for queer and trans* asylum seekers from Syria, Iran, Iraq and refugees from inner Turkey.
Founded in 2010, the Queer African Youth Network (QAYN) is a queer feminist organization working to build a vast network of Support to Promote the well-being and security of LGBTQ people in West Africa and Cameroon.
Founded in 2010, the Queer African Youth Network (QAYN) is a queer feminist organization working to build a vast network of Support to Promote the well-being and security of LGBTQ people in West Africa and Cameroon. Their work has grown to focus more broadly on facilitating and strengthening the agency and leadership of young queer women in the West African LGBTQ movements, particularly in Francophone countries. Since inception, QAYN has been instrumental in broadening the base of LBT leadership, facilitating young activist’s access to space, skill-building, and advocacy platforms. Their work is central to their capacity building programs. Their Activist School has been running since 2012. This leadership incubator program brings together activists from across the area to build collective understanding, analysis and strategies to inform Their activism. In addition, QAYN uses their publications, cultural activism, and efforts to position LGBTQ activism in a broader social justice context. Between 2015 and 2016, QAYN, in partnership with Alternative AFRO-Benin and Cote d’Ivoire, organized a series of groundbreaking cross-movement exchanges bringing together social justice and LGBTQ activists. These convenings Followed QAYN’s work to research and publish Mapping of the Social Justice Movement in West Africa and Cameroon: Perceptions on LGBTQ Issues. In 2014, they also produced a beautiful social media campaign titled 16 Voices, 16 Experiences: Queer African Women Talk about Violence, which consisted of a collection of audio stories in French and illustrations. They are now working on a picture campaign Visibility and Expression and a series of video interviews committed to building visibility around LBT activism in Francophone West Africa and Cameroon. Their Q-Zine, the only bilingual pan-African LGBTQI arts and culture digital magazine, is now in its 5th year of publication. QAYN’s goal is to provide an inspiring and creative outlet for LGBTQI and queer Africans and allies to celebrate, debate, and explore the creativity and cultural richness of queer life in Africa.
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Fondée en 2010, le Queer African Youth Network (QAYN) est une organisation féministe queer qui travaille à construire un vaste réseau de soutien pour promouvoir le bien-être et la sécurité des LGBTQ en Afrique de l’Ouest et au Cameroun. Leurs travaux se sont concentrés plus largement sur la facilitation et le renforcement de l’agence et du leadership des jeunes femmes queer dans les mouvements LGBTQ d’Afrique de l’Ouest, en particulier dans les pays francophones. Depuis sa création, QAYN a contribué à élargir la base du leadership LBT, à faciliter aux jeunes activistes l’accès à l’espace, à la formation des compétences et aux plates-formes de plaidoyer. Ce programme d’incubation de leaders rassemble des militantEs de toute la région afin de construire une compréhension collective, des analyses et des stratégies pour informer leur militantisme. En outre, QAYN est reconnu pour ses publications, son activisme culturel et ses efforts pour placer l’activisme LGBTQ dans un contexte de justice sociale plus large. Entre 2015 et 2016, QAYN, en partenariat avec AFRO-Bénin et Alternative Côte d’Ivoire, a organisé une série d’échanges de mouvements croisés qui réunissent la justice sociale et les militants LGBTQ. Ces rencontres ont suivi les travaux de QAYN pour la recherche et la publication de «Cartographie du mouvement de justice sociale en Afrique de l’Ouest et au Cameroun: Perceptions sur les questions LGBTQ». En 2014, ils ont également produit une belle campagne sur les médias sociaux intitulée «16 voix, 16 expériences: Les femmes queer africaines parlent de la violence», qui consistait en une collection d’histoires audio en français et en illustrations. Maintenant, une campagne photo, «Visibilité et Expression» et une série d’interviews vidéo contribuent à renforcer la visibilité autour du militantisme LBT en Afrique de l’Ouest francophone et au Cameroun. Q-Zine, le seul magazine panafricain des arts et de la culture LGBTQI, magazine numérique bilingue maintenant en 5e année de publication, est l’objectif de QAYN de fournir un point de vente inspirant et créatif pour les LGBTQI et les alliés Africains pour célébrer, débattre et explorer la créativité Et la richesse culturelle de la vie queer en Afrique.
The Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC) is an undocumented and queer/trans youth led organization that mobilizes youth, families and incarcerated people to end the criminalization of immigrants and people of color.
The Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC) is an undocumented and queer/trans youth led organization that mobilizes youth, families and incarcerated people to end the criminalization of immigrants and people of color. Through story-based strategies and grassroots organizing, IYC brings the struggles of directly impacted communities to the forefront of our movements to create social, cultural and policy change. Their programs and work build power with those directly impacted by approaching leadership development from a framework of human development which translates into their campaigns. IYC ensures that the undocumented and trans communities’ demands are included within the existing formations that are campaigning against immigration enforcement and mass incarceration. This organization is supported through the Funding Queerly Giving Circle, which is housed at Astraea.
Invoking the rich cultural tradition of resistance in the South, BreakOUT! builds the power of LGBTQ youth to create a safer and more just New Orleans.
Invoking the rich cultural tradition of resistance in the South, BreakOUT! builds the power of LGBTQ youth to create a safer and more just New Orleans. Youth members produced a film “We Deserve Better” to highlight their experiences with criminalization and their demands to end discriminatory policing practices. As part of their broader “We Deserve Better” campaign, BreakOUT! secured groundbreaking language in the Proposed Consent Decree between the New Orleans Police Department and the Department of Justice that is the most extensive in the country to date and specifically prohibits profiling of LGBTQ people based on gender identity and sexual orientation. BreakOUT! has also maintained correspondence with those inside the notoriously violent Orleans Parish Prison. They recently published a report, We Deserve Better: A Report on Policing in New Orleans By and For Queer and Trans Youth of Color, in order to identify and move forward needed reforms. BreakOUT! continues to fight against laws that profile and criminalize their community members, and to build nationally with allies as part of the Get Yr Rights National Network.
Check out our 2018 International Trans Day of Visibility video featuring an interview with BreakOUT’s former Executive Director, Wes Ware:
Femme en Action Contre la Stigmatisation el la Discrimination Sexuelle (FACSDIS) was founded in July 2010 as a response to the discrimination and violence LBT women and sex workers faced in Haiti in the context of the earthquake.
Femme en Action Contre la Stigmatisation el la Discrimination Sexuelle (FACSDIS) was founded in July 2010 as a response to the discrimination and violence LBT women and sex workers faced in Haiti in the context of the earthquake. FACSDIS’s mission is to end stigma and gender discrimination and to support the struggle of oppressed and marginalized women such as LBT women, sex workers and people living with HIV. Outside of the capital, Port Au Prince, they work with LBT women to raise awareness, build their capacity to advocate for their rights, and promote access to jobs, health care and education. They organize and respond to the rape commonly targeting butch and masculine-presenting women in the community. They work to address the stigma around rape, and they do workshops with police and judges so that their response to these cases is not lesbophobic and discriminatory, furthering the trauma and violence survivors experience. They also work with incarcerated women, LBT women and sex workers who are criminalized for who they are and have no due process; they have helped to free several LBT women who were wrongfully incarcerated.
Gender Justice L.A. is a member-based, grassroots organization that works towards a safe and just society for all transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people.
Gender Justice L.A. is a member-based, grassroots organization that works towards a safe and just society for all transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people. They believe all transgender people should have access to quality, respectful, and affordable health care; freedom from bigotry, harassment, and violence; opportunities for education, employment, and leadership; safe spaces for enhancing spiritual, physical, and social wellness; and the right to self-determination. Through a combination of policy advocacy and community building, Gender Justice L.A. has secured concrete gains for the trans community in L.A. such as changes in the police patrol guide for the fair treatment of trans people and trans prisoners. GJLA continues to fight anti-trans forces in California, responding to attacks on rights they have already secured. GJLA’s program TRANSform LA is known for its series of workshops over the course of 6 months for trans* and gender nonconforming people. Participants are empowered and given skills to continue working towards radical transformation in Los Angeles.
This organization is supported through the Funding Queerly Giving Circle, which is housed at Astraea.
El/La works to build a world where transgender Latinas (translatinas) feel they deserve to protect, love and develop themselves.
El/La works to build a world where transgender Latinas (translatinas) feel they deserve to protect, love and develop themselves. By building this base, they support translatinas in protecting themselves against violence, abuse, and illness, and in fully realizing their dreams. El/La is an organization for translatinas that builds collective vision and action to promote their survival and improve their quality of life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their scope of work includes: (1) HIV Prevention – outreach, education, testing, peer-to-peer counseling, accompaniment, and referrals and accompaniment; (2) Violence Prevention – case management, referrals and accompaniment, and Luchadoras Leadership Development and Translatina Council/Consejo Translatina; and (3) Safe Space and Community – evening drop-in, family-style celebrations, social networking, expression of spirituality, and life skills groups. As a result of these programs they in turn go out and educate community members about risks to their health and safety, support each other in identifying barriers to full participation in society, and find resources to overcome those barriers. El/La builds visibility and alliances to respond to transphobic attacks and has worked with over 105 city agencies, service providers, programs and collaboratives in San Francisco, the greater Bay Area and beyond. Their work strengthens translatinas’ ability to critique and respond to the systems of violence they face, and the continuation of anti-violence programs addressing violence against translatinas.
Freedom, Inc. (FI) challenges the fundamental root causes of violence against women, queer and trans folx, and youth through leadership development, radical service providing, and community organizing in low-income communities of color–focusing on Black and Southeast Asian communities.
Freedom, Inc. (FI) challenges the fundamental root causes of violence against women, queer and trans folx, and youth through leadership development, radical service providing, and community organizing in low-income communities of color–focusing on Black and Southeast Asian communities. FI’s anti-violence work includes working against systemic and institutional violence of poverty, sexism, racism, heterosexism, and cisgenderism as well as their interpersonal expressions of domestic and sexual violence. Their programs aim to change cultural norms into which people are socialized (addressing the root causes of violence and internalized oppression) and build capacity for survivors as leaders in their communities to organize for institutional change and accountability.
Streetwise and Safe: LGBTQQ Youth of Color Standing Up to Police Abuse and Criminalization (SAS) is a collaborative multi-strategy initiative to develop leadership, knowledge, and skills among LGBTQQ youth of color who have experienced gender-and-sexuality-specific forms of race and class based policing, particularly in the context “quality of life” policing and the policing of sex work and trafficking in persons.
Streetwise and Safe: LGBTQQ Youth of Color Standing Up to Police Abuse and Criminalization (SAS) is a collaborative multi-strategy initiative to develop leadership, knowledge, and skills among LGBTQQ youth of color who have experienced gender-and-sexuality-specific forms of race and class based policing, particularly in the context “quality of life” policing and the policing of sex work and trafficking in persons. SAS has been very active in the Communities United for Police Reform (CPR) campaign, and is the only LGBTQ youth of color organization part of CPR’s steering committee. Their critical participation highlights the ways in which “Stop and Frisk” practices not only affect black and brown men, but LGBTQI youth of color in particular. SAS, along other NY-based grantee partners, contributed to the passing of the Community Safety Act. More recently, they pushed the passing of a partial “No Condoms as Evidence” policy and are now part of the decision making table evaluating policy implementation. SAS and BreakOUT! are leading the Get Yr Rights National Network.
