ATLANTA — An Atlanta advocacy group has created a billboard campaign that demands an end to violence against Black transgender people.
The I Am Human Foundation campaign debuted in January, and features billboards with the slogan “Black trans lives matter” against the backdrop of the trans Pride flag.
The billboards also contain the hashtag “stop the violence.” Alex Santiago, the executive director of the I Am Human Foundation, on Feb.
21 told the Washington Blade the idea behind the campaign emerged last summer after he attended marches in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. “There was a lot of conversation back in the summer with the Black Lives Matter (protests) and there was even a divide in the LGBTQ community where they were