Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project

The Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP) envisions a world where no one is forced to give up their homeland and where all Black LGBTQIA+ people are free and liberated. We build and center the power of Black LGBTQIA+ Migrants to ensure the liberation of ALL Black people through Organizing, Base-Building, Strategic Communications, and Long- Term Viability and Sustainability. 

Thank you for supporting our vital work during pride month! For nearly 10 years, BLMP has made it our mission to build and center the power of Black LGBTQIA+ migrants. We know that language barriers, lack of access to gender-affirming care, and high rates of violence make our communities especially vulnerable at each stage of their journeys.  

Too often, Black queer and trans migrants are missing from conversations about how to create home and belonging for all of us. At the heart of this work is our belief in safety, dignity, freedom, and the ability to thrive without fear.

But we know that true safety exists in the everyday moments when people show up for one another. With your help today and through the rest of Pride month, we can go further than ever. 

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We are led by a directly impacted steering committee, staff and consultants, and operate organizing networks in regions throughout the United States, Honduras, and more. BLMP aims to reduce isolation, build leadership, and protect and defend Black LGBTQIA+ migrants from increasing attacks through community-building and healing programs around the country, legal support and deportation defense work, increasing access to services and resources, regional organizing hub networks, and much more.

We build power, community, and knowledge in the U.S. while challenging the role that the United States plays globally in creating the conditions that force us to leave our homelands in the first place. We envision 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.