“For so many of us, the spaces we're forced to move through and the world around us is not welcoming.”Barry Chin / Boston Globe via Getty Images fileBlack LGBTQ people face an increased risk of violence and harassment. A new app hopes to help change that.
Lavender Book’s key feature is a crowdsourced search engine that shows users safe and friendly establishments in different locations. Users can narrow down their search by the service they’re looking for and a list of attributes, such as gender-neutral restrooms, Black- or trans-owned, or LGBTQ-trained staff., which was a guide for Black road-trippers published during the Jim Crow era that mapped safe spaces for Black people.
Johns said the violence Black LGBTQ people face is nothing new. In the month of April alone, the National Black Justice Coalition reported on the deaths of One of the beta-testers for the app and a member of NBJC’s Youth and Young Adult Action Council, Sage Grace Dolan-Sandrino, 20, said that as a Black and Latina queer and trans woman, “it is imperative to my survival that I know in what spaces I am safe.”
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NBCOUT Please add to the map a most dangerous place where they'll be tortured and murdered for it: the Gaza strip. On the bright side, Israel is one of the safest places for them, once Hamas will stop throwing thousands of rockets at us of course.
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