With police profiling of Black transgender women as sex workers and Latino communities profiled as undocumented, both immigrant and LGBTQ communities of color in New Orleans are heavily criminalized with their right to move safely and freely in our own city compromised for fear of law enforcement. Whether it is “Driving while Latino” or [...]
It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that another young, Black trans/ gender non-conforming person, Devin Diamond, has been murdered in New Orleans, just a few weeks after 24 year old Erica “E” Davis was shot in the Treme neighborhood on her way to work. We are all aware of the horrific [...]
photo from Congress of Day Laborers' Children's March, credit: Fernando Lopez BreakOUT! and the Congress of Day Laborers are excited to be a part of the Out for Change Transformative Media Organizing Project (TMOP), which links LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizers, media makers, and tech-activists across the United States. Used to support our Vice to ICE campaign, [...]
MORE THAN 150 CIVIL, LABOR, AND IMMIGRANTS’ RIGHTS GROUPS FILE AMICUS WITH U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT TO ASK COURT TO LIFT BLOCK ON EXPANDED DACA AND DAPA (Above: BreakOUT! members and Congreso members after Vice to ICE "Culture Clash," February 2015) President Obama’s immigration actions would allow millions of immigrants to [...]
