AIS Statement: We celebrate and stand in solidarity with LGBTQ+ leaders and survivors

Pride is not just a celebration, it is a call to action!

June 5, 2026 - The Alliance for Immigrant Survivors is proud to celebrate and stand in solidarity with the inspiring and tenacious LGBTQ+ leaders and survivors—and their advocates—who we have the privilege of working alongside in our collective movement for survivor and immigrant safety and justice. Despite navigating intersecting systems of violence, discrimination, and exclusion, LGBTQ+ immigrants continue to show up every day to claim their right to safety, dignity, and belonging.

Across the United States, LGBTQ+ immigrants face disproportionately high rates of violence, abuse, and systemic harm. LGBTQ+ immigrant survivors also encounter additional barriers to accessing supportive services due to lack of language access, fear of deportation, economic precarity, isolation and fear of law enforcement and other systems of justice that often fail or vilify them. Transgender individuals—particularly transgender women of color, many of whom are immigrants—face especially alarming rates of violence and homicide. LGBTQ+ immigrants in immigration detention are also significantly more likely to experience sexual abuse compared to other detainees.

This Pride Month we acknowledge all that the LGBTQ+ community is holding and all the ways in which LGBTQ+ advocates continue to lead movements to advance justice for survivors and immigrants, championing a vision that affirms the right of every person to live free from violence and to thrive on their own terms.

Now more than ever we must show up for the LGBTQ+ community in the ways they have always shown up for those on the margins.

Because Pride is not just a celebration—it is a call to action. It is a reminder that liberation is collective. Our work is rooted in the belief that all survivors—including those who are immigrants, queer, trans, and nonbinary—deserve full and equal access to safety, justice, and healing.

In Solidarity,
Team AIS