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How can LGBT organizations be allies to immigrant rights movements?

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How can LGBT organizations be allies to immigrant rights movements?

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• Broaden your analysis: do not frame your message around “equality for all citizens,” frame it around equality and justice for all. Support legalization for all immigrants. • Get active in fighting anti-immigrant bills: LGBT people are immigrants too, are being detained and deported everyday. Spend staff time and programming budget on immigrant rights advocacy. Pair up with immigrant rights organizations to send out joint press statements. • Proactively fight for immigrant rights: support access to healthcare and voting rights for immigrants. • LGBT foundations need to support LGBT immigrant rights organizations. For more information on current struggles for LGBT immigrants visit http://www.quir.org Debanuj Dasgupta is a Steering Committee member of Queer Immigrant Rights Project and Co-coordinator of the National People of Color Organizing Institute. Debanuj can be reached at ddasgupta@quir.org This page has been accessed 4938 times.