The Caribbean Equality Project (CEP) is a New York City-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization that empowers, advocates for, and represents Black and Brown, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, and queer Caribbean immigrants in New York City. Through public education, community organizing, civic engagement, storytelling, and cultural and social programming, the organization focuses on advocacy for LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights, gender equity, racial justice, immigration, mental health services, and ending hate violence in the Caribbean diaspora. In 2015, the Caribbean Equality Project was launched by Mohamed Q. Amin in response to anti-LGBTQ hate violence- the same day the U.S. Supreme Court passed the Marriage Equality Act. Since then, the organization has been hosting bi-monthly healing community spaces through its Unchained support groups in Queens and Brooklyn, facilitates immigration legal services for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, curates oral history and storytelling interdisciplinary art exhibitions, organizes culture-shifting programming and builds political power through civic engagement, Census outreach, redistricting, voter registration, and legislative advocacy to advance LGBTQ+ and voting rights in New York State. The organization fosters civic participation and promotes voter education to cultivate collective people power for Afro and Indo-Caribbean LGBTQ+ immigrants and Caribbean Americans at the neighborhood, city, state, and national levels. Annually, the organization registers hundreds of eligible voters, coordinates political candidate forums, organizes voter education community events, and works with allied community partners to amplify Black and Brown Queer and Trans Caribbean voices in New York City and beyond.
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