Mon, Sep 30
|Brooklyn Pride Center - Crown Heights
Brooklyn Unchained: Caribbean LGBTQ Immigrant Support Group
A brave space for Queeribbeans focusing on healing and community-building through intergenerational dialogue and discussions to end stigma, foster healthier relationships, celebrate diversity, promote personal empowerment, and encourage family acceptance.
Time & Location
Sep 30, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT
Brooklyn Pride Center - Crown Heights, 1561 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225, USA
About the event
Launched in 2015, Unchained is a pioneering initiative in New York City, offering through the Caribbean Equality Project. For nearly a decade, Unchained, a unique peer-to-peer support group, has been at the heart of our Healing Justice work, providing a empowering space for Caribbean LGBT+ immigrants, those impacted by HIV, and survivors of family rejection, discrimination, intimate partner violence, and sexual assault to heal and build community. Â
The Unchained group has roots in building community in a time of unprecedented isolation and grief. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC, we expanded our healing justice work to meet the emotional needs of the Caribbean LGBTQ+ community in NYC and beyond. Launched in 2020, during a global pandemic, as a virtual version of the inaugural in-person Queens Unchained support group, the Brooklyn Unchained iteration quickly became an international safe space to heal and unpack the pandemic, the…