Caribbean Equality Project

Caribbean Equality Project CEP is a community-based organization that advocates for Caribbean LGBTQ+ voices in NYC. Caribbean Equality Project was founded in 2015 by Mohamed Q.
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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.

🍍 Healthy food access and community joy.Join , NYC Council Member Rita Joseph (), -Flatbush Chapter, and for a Pride Mo...
06/16/2026

🍍 Healthy food access and community joy.

Join , NYC Council Member Rita Joseph (), -Flatbush Chapter, and for a Pride Month and Juneteenth celebration at our monthly Food Distribution in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Little Caribbean. 🥔🫜🍠🍎🥦

🗓 Saturday, June 20, 2026
⏰ 12 pm
📍 P.S. 6 - Norma Adams Clemons Academy (43 Snyder Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226)

🗣This is an indoor event that offers a distribution of FREE groceries, fresh produce, sexual health products, PPE, and a resource fair providing immigrant and June Primary GOTV resources.

✨Pet food offered by

We will be on-site until supplies last. Wear a mask. Bring a cart.

🗣 Interested in volunteering? Signup here: bit.ly/FoodJusticeVolunteers (link in bio)

💫 Supported by Council Member Rita Joseph (), The Campaign Against Hunger (), the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (), New York Communities for Change- Flatbush Chapter (), Flatbush Mixtape (), MetroPlusHealth (), and MUNA Social Services ().

Caribbean Pride is in the air 🌈✨ — but needs your help to continue the BIG TRUCK tradition! 🚛🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️We’re calling on ...
06/15/2026

Caribbean Pride is in the air 🌈✨ — but needs your help to continue the BIG TRUCK tradition! 🚛🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

We’re calling on our Caribbean Rainbow family, community partners, friends, loved ones, and allies to support our 2026 Big Truck Fundraiser and help us bring Caribbean LGBTQ+ visibility, culture, music, joy, and power to the streets of the NYC Pride March. 🌴💖

📲 Donate here: bit.ly/BigTruck2026 (Link in bio)

Every contribution moves our community forward and helps keep this tradition alive.

Together, we’re turning visibility into power and Pride into action. 🌴🏳️‍🌈

🏀🗳 KNICKS IN FIVE! FANS DON’T SIT OUT, WE VOTE EARLY. 🗣 Early voting for the June Primary is happening now and ends on S...
06/14/2026

🏀🗳 KNICKS IN FIVE! FANS DON’T SIT OUT, WE VOTE EARLY.

🗣 Early voting for the June Primary is happening now and ends on Sunday, June 21!

✨ Skip the lines and long wait times. Every NYC voter can vote early in person before Election Day, Tuesday, June 23. Early voting is convenient, quick, and flexible. Vote safely, Q***ribbeans!

📣 Note that your early voting poll site may differ from your Election Day poll site. Please check before you go !

📲 NYC Poll Site Locator: https://findmypollsite.vote.nyc

🏆 New York Proud. Congrats to the !

“Mash-Up De Vote” is the ’s culturally responsive, nonpartisan voter education and political power-building campaign.

***rTheVote

🎉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ TODAY: All roads lead to Little Guyana Pride! We can’t wait to welcome you to our 2nd Annual Little Guyana Pr...
06/11/2026

🎉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ TODAY: All roads lead to Little Guyana Pride!

We can’t wait to welcome you to our 2nd Annual Little Guyana Pride: Immigrant Power, Rooted in Culture!

As we gather to celebrate Pride and Caribbean Heritage Month, we are honored to have community leaders guiding us through an evening of culture, storytelling, and collective empowerment.

✨ Meet Our Guest Speaker & Host:
🎙️ Host: Tiffany Jade Munroe (), Trans Justice Manager, Caribbean Equality Project

🎤 Guest Speaker: Yanery Cruz (), Executive Director, NYC Council LGBTQIA+ Caucus

📆 Thursday, June 11, 2026
🕚 6 to 11 PM
📍 Liberty Palace: 130-11 Liberty Ave, Richmond Hill, NY 11419
📲 RSVP Here: bit.ly/LittleGuyanaPride (Link in bio)

Join for an evening rooted in neighborhood safety through dialogue, cultural performances, community resources, food, and dancing, as we honor the strength, resilience, and power of our diverse LGBTQ+ communities.

Thank you to for supporting !

📣 Invest in LGBTQ+ Immigrant New YorkersThe , a steering committee member of the New York City Trans & Q***r Coalition (...
06/09/2026

📣 Invest in LGBTQ+ Immigrant New Yorkers

The , a steering committee member of the New York City Trans & Q***r Coalition (***rcoalition), is advancing a historic FY27 budget proposal to create the LGBTQ+ Immigrant Legal Services Fund. This new initiative calls for a transformative, $15 million annual investment in culturally competent, accessible, and community-centered legal services tailored to LGBTQ+ immigrants in New York City. The proposed fund will address longstanding gaps in immigration representation, strengthen legal protections, and ensure equitable access to justice for one of the city’s most vulnerable communities.

🗽Fund Diverse Entry points to service:
⚖️ $7.5M to create a new Speaker City Wide Initiative to be allocated to non-profits that applied to the City Council discretionary funding.

⚖️ $7.5M allocated to expand the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs’ existing services to include additional LGBTQIA+ specialized attorneys and social workers.

🗣 We call on the New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin (), the LGBTQIA+ Caucus (), CM Elsie Encarnacion (), and CM Linda Lee () to stand with an estimated 150,000–200,000 LGBTQ+ immigrants in NYC, with approximately 60– 70% unable to access needed legal services.

🌺 Access to Counsel Protects LGBTQ+ Lives

🌈🔥 It’s a Q***ribbean and Cultural Talent Bruk-Out!🎉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We are thrilled to announce our performers for the 2nd Ann...
06/08/2026

🌈🔥 It’s a Q***ribbean and Cultural Talent Bruk-Out!

🎉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ We are thrilled to announce our performers for the 2nd Annual Little Guyana Pride: Immigrant Power, Rooted in Culture!

Through powerful performances rooted in culture and community, our artists will bring this year’s theme to life, reminding us that our stories, traditions, and identities are sources of strength and power.

Meet Our Performers:
💃 Bertha Vanayshun ()
🎭 Afrosephone Applegate ()
🎤 Amaranta Love
🪷 Omadevi Somai ()

📆 Thursday, June 11, 2026
🕚 6 to 11 PM
📍 Liberty Palace: 130-11 Liberty Ave, Richmond Hill, NY 11419
📲 RSVP Here: bit.ly/LittleGuyanaPride (Link in bio)

Join for an evening rooted in neighborhood safety through dialogue, cultural performances, community resources, food, and dancing, as we honor the strength, resilience, and power of our diverse LGBTQ+ communities.

Thank you to for supporting !

Our sibling Qween Jean 🏳️‍⚧️🇭🇹 is a winner!Tonight, Qween Jean () won the Tony Award for best costume design of a music...
06/08/2026

Our sibling Qween Jean 🏳️‍⚧️🇭🇹 is a winner!

Tonight, Qween Jean () won the Tony Award for best costume design of a musical on Sunday for her work on “Cats: The Jellicle Ball.” The costume designer and activist has become the first openly transgender person to win a Tony, according to the show's publicist.

She joins a small group of Black trans and gender-nonconforming artists honored by the awards, including L Morgan Lee, J. Harrison Ghee, and Alex Newell.

For the q***r ballroom-style revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical, Qween Jean created 500 looks, including extravagant accessories like an immense free-standing leopard purse, and clothes hand-decorated with references to trans pioneers and revolutionaries, including Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy.

📸 Photo by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Queens Pride.While the Caribbean Equality Project will not be participating in Queens Pride 2026, our co...
06/07/2026

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Happy Queens Pride.

While the Caribbean Equality Project will not be participating in Queens Pride 2026, our commitment to Caribbean LGBTQ+ and immigrant communities remains unwavering. For over a decade, we have stood in solidarity with our cross-movement partners at Queens Pride—uplifting our communities and advocating for safety, visibility, and belonging.

✨ This year, we continue that work beyond the parade—grounded in resistance and collective care, and committed to confronting injustice in all its forms, from systemic discrimination to political violence and the ongoing impact of ICE terrorizing our communities. We remain grounded in culture, anchored in resistance, and rooted in radical love.

📣 Together, we are building a New York where all LGBTQ+ immigrants—Black, Brown, undocumented, and working-class—can not only survive, but live safely, dream freely, and thrive.

🌺 Here are highlights from Queens Pride 2025, as we celebrated a decade of building Q***ribbean power.

📸 by

✨ Join Caribbean Equality Project for the 2nd Annual Little Guyana Pride, celebrating Pride Month and Caribbean American...
05/29/2026

✨ Join Caribbean Equality Project for the 2nd Annual Little Guyana Pride, celebrating Pride Month and Caribbean American Heritage Month. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Under the theme “Rooted in Culture, Immigrant Power,” we uplift Caribbean culture, LGBTQ+ visibility, and the strength of NYC’s immigrant communities.

📆Thursday, June 11, 2026
🕚6 to 11 PM
📍Liberty Palace: 130-11 Liberty Ave, Richmond Hill, NY 11419
📲RSVP Here: bit.ly/LittleGuyanaPride

Enjoy performances, a community panel, and a Know Your Rights resource fair, food, and a dance party. Come celebrate, connect, and build community with us. 🌴💖

📣 More featured speakers and performers to be announced!

🌺 Here are some highlights from our inaugural 2025 !

🍓Food security is the foundation of community resilience. TOMORROW, join , NYC Council Member Rita Joseph (), -Flatbush ...
05/15/2026

🍓Food security is the foundation of community resilience.

TOMORROW, join , NYC Council Member Rita Joseph (), -Flatbush Chapter, and for our monthly Food Distribution in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Little Caribbean. 🥔🫜🍠🌽🍇🍎

🗓 Saturday, May 16, 2026
⏰ 12 pm
📍 P.S. 6 - Norma Adams Clemons Academy (43 Snyder Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226)

🗣This is an indoor event that offers a distribution of FREE groceries, fresh produce, sexual health products, PPE, and a resource fair providing immigration and health resources, including on-site voter registration.

✨Pet food offered by

We will be on-site until supplies last. Wear a mask. Bring a cart.

🗣 Interested in volunteering? Signup here: bit.ly/FoodJusticeVolunteers (link in bio)

💫 Supported by Council Member Rita Joseph (), The Campaign Against Hunger (), the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs (), New York Communities for Change- Flatbush Chapter (), Flatbush Mixtape (), MetroPlusHealth (), and MUNA Social Services ().

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PO BOX 200248
Queens, NY
11420

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 8pm
Thursday 11am - 8pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 4pm

Telephone

+13477093179

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