Our history is filled with stories of how the movement gave queer people a sense of belonging, pride, and family—but often excluded communities of color who played essential roles in driving us forward. At the Task Force, we put inclusion and intersectionality at the forefront of all that we do, but that didn’t happen without a fight. 

We sat down with Victoria Kirby York, Director of Policy and Programs at the National Black Justice Coalition and Mandy Carter, founder of Southerners on New Ground and the National Black Justice Coalition to discuss their experiences fighting for and building Black and queer spaces within the LGBTQ movement.