RSVPs are encouraged but not required. The event will be streamed on Vimeo Live and other Immigration Equality and The Caribbean Equality Project platforms, which we will post and send closer to the event. 

29% of Immigration Equality’s clients are Caribbean, and many of them are referred to us by The Caribbean Equality Project. Our organizations both have shifted all Pride celebrations online and are naming this event AMPLIFY to recognize that black, and black queer and trans collective voices, need to be heard at this time. This 2020 Pride season, the memory of the Stonewall riots are magnified by the current protests erupting across the country in response to the murder of George Floyd, and countless others, and the unrelenting assault of police brutality. Protest brings visibility to a movement. We stand in solidarity with those calling for racial justice and an end to all forms of oppression. Now is the moment for us to use our collective voices to make change and end the systematic oppression of those who have been and continue to be marginalized. 

Every June we march as an annual tribute to the 1969 Stonewall riots, to commemorate Black and Brown transgender women who stood up against anti-LGBTQ systems and police brutality to demand visibility and civil rights. Queer Black and Brown people have been leading this fight from the beginning, but they are often erased. When the Stonewall Inn was raided by the police, they were the first to be arrested and beaten down. Violence and systemic racism continue to target Black and Brown people, including from within our LGBTQ community. This needs to end.
 

Thank you for standing up for what is right and just.  

In Solidarity,
Immigration Equality and The Caribbean Equality Project