Caribbean Equality Project (CEP) is a Queens-based community organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Black and Brown, le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, and q***r Caribbean immigrants in New York City. CEP's intersectional organizing fosters solidarity, builds coalitions, develops community partnerships, and conducts legislative activism to advance LGBTQ+ rights in New York State. Through public education, community organizing, civic engagement, storytelling, and cultural and social programming, the organization's work focuses on advocacy for LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights, gender equity, racial justice, immigration and mental health services, and ending hate violence in the Caribbean diaspora. To date, CEP is the only educational-based agency serving the Caribbean-American LGBTQ+ community in New York City, with a dedicated aim to cultivating supportive and progressive Caribbean neighborhoods free of violence, oppression, and discrimination. As a Black and Brown immigrant-led social justice and human rights organization, inclusivity and intersectionality are the foundation of the Caribbean Equality Project's work. The organization's liberation movement educates, inspires, uplifts, and celebrates Afro and Indo-Caribbean, q***r and trans non-religious, Muslim, Hindu and Christian, documented and undocumented members of the Caribbean diaspora of all generations, all categories of ability, and all HIV statuses. Amin in response to anti-LGBTQ+ hate in Richmond Hill, Queens, NY. Since the organization's official launch on June 26, 2015, the same day the US Supreme Court legalized marriage equality in all fifty states in the case Obergefell v. Hodges, CEP has made significant strides toward advancing and uplifting Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrant voices in NYC.
