Comunidad Sol-“Justice and Indigenous LGBTQ2S Community in the Diaspora” 2025

November 2025 — Ohio, United States

Comunidad Sol, as an Indigenous organization, addresses the public today with respect and recognition for the displaced Indigenous LGBTQ2S community. We do not speak for them nor occupy their space; our role is to accompany, open paths, and support processes that emerge from their own leadership, culture, and memory.

The situation faced by this community is critical. Indigenous LGBTQ2S youth are expelled from their homes, beaten, criminalized, and stigmatized for who they love and their gender identity. Discrimination intersects with over 500 years of colonization, racism, forced migration, and religious impositions, creating a context where their human rights are consistently violated.

A painful example is the story of a young gay Ixil man, who shared: "My father threw me out when I told them I like men. My father was so enraged that he hit my mother, because he thought it was her fault. Then the pastor said I should be punished to remove 'the evil.' My mother helped me escape, and that’s how I was able to flee." Stories like his are not isolated; they reflect the systematic violence faced by Indigenous LGBTQ2S people.

Between January and November 2025, as an emergency response, Comunidad Sol provided interpretation for legal and medical processes, cultural support workshops, educational materials in K’iche’, Ixil, Mam, Awakateko, Q’eqchi’, and Spanish, and a public fundraising campaign that raised $19.52, These actions saved lives and upheld memory, but they cannot replace the community’s voice and autonomy.

In January 2026, the Indigenous LGBTQ2S community will officially launch their program “Justice and Indigenous LGBTQ2S Community in the Diaspora”, currently being designed by displaced Indigenous LGBTQ2S consultants in the United States, Canada, and Guatemala, guided directly by the community affected. The program aims to build an autonomous, organized, and active community where Indigenous LGBTQ2S People can mobilize, defend their rights, strengthen their leadership, and create safe spaces from their own voice. Comunidad Sol will continue supporting from an Indigenous perspective, but the voice and leadership belong to the Indigenous LGBTQ2S community.

We issue an urgent call to donors, allies, and human rights organizations: your support will allow this historically invisible community to access safety, health, education, and dignity. Walking alongside the Indigenous LGBTQ2S community means recognizing their resistance, amplifying their voice, and ensuring they never face these violences alone again.

Indigenous resistance and the diversity in ways of loving and gender identity are not struggles of the past; they are present and necessary.

The community lives, resists, and grows—and with your support, it can rise with strength and autonomy.