Racial Justice Is An LGBTQIA+ Issue
What is Racial Justice?
Racial justice is the systematic fair treatment of people of all races, resulting in equitable opportunities and outcomes for all. This includes anti-racism, addressing systemic inequalities and inequities based on race and ethnicity, confronting and dismantling white supremacy and race-based discrimination, and creating and investing in measures that begin to repair the real harms done by the long history of racial injustice in the United States.
Deep-seated systemic racism and inequities that disadvantage communities of color are still built into our institutions today, from education to employment to housing to our criminal legal system. Anti-Black and anti-Indigenous racism have been and continue to be at the core of American history and present-day racism in our country. We also recognize that racism and racial justice cannot be simplified into a black-and-white issue; racial discrimination takes many forms in the United States and affects all LGBTQIA+ people of color in myriad ways that uphold white supremacy and ethnocentric nationalism.
Why is Racial Justice an LGBTQIA+ Issue?
“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” – Audre Lorde
Racial justice is an LGBTQIA+ issue because racial oppression is inextricable from homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, and biphobia for LGBTQIA+ people of color, and because the systems of oppression that marginalize both LGBTQIA+ folks and people of color work in concert in a particularly damaging way for LGBTQIA+ people of color.
What We Believe
- We believe that all people of all races and ethnicities deserve to be treated fairly and justly, under the law, in interpersonal interactions, and throughout society.
- We oppose white supremacy and the racial inequities and anti-Blackness that form the foundation of the United States.