Lavender Rights Project (LRP) is advancing gender self-determination, collective safety, and community-rooted systems of care. We work at the intersections of housing justice, policy transformation, wraparound legal support, and narrative power to shift cultural norms and expand what safety and liberation can look like for Black, Trans and gender-expansive people.

We believe that the people most impacted by systemic harm are the ones who hold the knowledge we need to build new worlds. Our work centers Black and Trans leadership not as symbolic representation, but as strategic necessity. Through legal advocacy, supportive housing, community organizing, political education, and storytelling, we create the infrastructure our communities need to survive, heal, and thrive.

Our Model of Transformation:

We respond to the immediate needs created by criminalization, poverty, displacement, and harm.

• Legal Services: defense against criminalization, civil rights advocacy, and Know Your Rights clinics.
  

We build structures of stability, belonging, and community-rooted safety.

• Sharyon Grayson House: wraparound supportive housing for our community emerging from incarceration, houselessness, or violence.
  

• Community Groups & Case Management: transforming isolation into networks of care.
  

We shift narratives, policy, and culture to secure long-term liberation.

• Movement Lawyering & Policy Advocacy: challenging laws and policing practices that target Black, trans, and houseless communities.
  

• Narrative Strategy: changing public understanding of gender, safety, and power through community media, storytelling, and cultural work.
  

• Collective Leadership Development: cultivating intergenerational Black and Trans leadership to guide our movements, not just participate in them.
  
  We don’t just meet needs.
  We build conditions for our people to lead the future.

Why Our Work Matters — Now

We are living in a moment of unprecedented anti-trans and anti-Black political coordination. Policies rooted in punishment, surveillance, and control target Black, trans, disabled, poor, immigrant, and criminalized people in ways that destabilize entire communities.

But our communities have always held the solutions.
We know how to care for each other.
We know how to build safety outside punishment.
We know how to organize power.

Lavender Rights Project exists to resource that wisdom, scale it, and defend it.

Stay ready. Stay rooted. Stay loud.