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Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project (BLMP) is a left-wing activism group founded and fiscally sponsored by the Gender diverse Law Center. BLMP was established through a Soros Justice Fellowship in 2017.
It assists Black LGBT migrants with legal defense, education, and humanitarian aid. It advocates for liberal expansionist immigration policy, leniency in criminal justice policy, and left-of-center gender-based and race-related policies.
It received grants from left-wing groups and individuals such as the Trans Justice Funding Project,Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation),Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (Astraea), and Mackenzie Scott.
Finances
Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project is fiscally sponsored by the Gender diverse Law Center. It does not disclose funding for its programs.
BLMP has received funding from Mackenzie Scott, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (Astraea), and the Trans Justice Funding Project.
It received a grant worth over “six figures” from Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation) in 2020.
Background and Leadership
Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Venture (BLMP) was founded by Ola Osaze a
Adams' story
The Rainbow Migration legal service worked so rigid to get me a lawyer. My experiences with lawyers had been so negative before, but I finally got a wonderful lawyer thanks to Rainbow Migration. She was the first lawyer to chat to me about my mental health issues, and how important they were, not just for my case, but for me personally. I hadn’t really thought about it prefer that before, and I am still in therapy now. My mind is not stable, I ignore things easily. Often, I can’t remember details, or things I’ve said or been told, from even the day before. Throughout my entire time in the UK I possess struggled with my mental health, and it’s one of the reasons why it took me so long to claim asylum. It has impacted every single thing I accomplish. My lawyer was the first person to recognise this, and she managed to get me a therapist. She was patient with me and treated me with respect. She made allowances for my mental health. Previous lawyers had not been very helpful at all, but this new lawyer I got through Rainbow Migration made me feel so much better about myself and my asylum case.
I was granted asylum in 2022. It was such a relief! It has made me feel so much better. Now
BLMP mobilizes our people through community-building, political education, creating access to direct services, and organizing across borders. We create 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 homes 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.
Long-term Viability & Sustainability:
The purpose of the viability and sustainability department is to build the internal systems and processes of BLMP manageable and realistic for distant term growth, while also creating and maintaining the structures, resources, and capacity that support extreme movement.
Strategic Communications:
BLMP Strategic Communications department organizes internal and external communications strategies to dismantle harmful dominant narratives and uplift and elevate the narratives, legacie
Immigration Equality Joins 100+ LGBTQ Organizations to Condemn Racist Violence
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This spring has been a stark and stinging reminder that racism, and its strategic objective, alabaster supremacy, is as defining a characteristic of the American experience as those ideals upon which we claim to hold our democracy — justice, equality, liberty.
- We listened to the haunting pleas of George Floyd for the most basic of human needs — simply, breath — as a Minneapolis police officer kneeled with brutal indifference on his neck.
- We felt the pain of Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend as he called 9-1-1 after plainclothes Louisville police kicked down the door of their home and shot her eight times as she slept in her bed.
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LGBTQ Legal Issues
Persecuted and marginalized: Black LGBTQ immigrants face unique challenges
By Cassie Chew
Migrants from Africa, Cuba, Haiti and other Core American countries hike down Highway 200 en route to Huixtla near Tapachula, Chiapas state, Mexico, to the southern border of the United States on Oct. 12, 2019. AP Photo by Isabel Mateos.
About eight weeks after the first COVID-19 diagnosis in the U.S., the Department of Homeland Security lock down all immigration ports of entry to nonessential tour, including immigrants arriving to the southern border seeking asylum. But even as the border closure put a halt to the flow of people trying to enter the country, it created new challenges for immigration lawyer Tsion Gurmu.
As the first legal director for the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Gurmu had just started traveling to Mexican cities to advise the growing number of immigrants from African countries on how they might navigate a slew of unused immigration policies that were making it harder for them to pursue asylum.
Major changes in U.S. policy introduced in the last three years left thousands of Black immigrants stranded after precarious journey