In wake of the recent pandemic, thousands of LGBTQ+ students of color have been displaced and disenfranchised. I hope to start a club within my school known as “The Safe Haven Gallery”. This club would promote a safe space for LGBTQ students of color, as well as promote artwork to help financially stabilize students affected by the pandemic. Rutgers Newark is a smaller campus than that of Rutgers New Brunswick, and it already has an LGBT club. However, as we all know queers of color are at a much higher risk for violence than that of their white counterparts. I hope to bring this organization outside of just this school, and eventually begin a non-profit within NYC/NJ for these young people to have an outlet to go to. I wish to provide members with outlets for other organizations, such as the BTFA collective which promotes black femmes trans women in art. It is too often we say “Black Lives Matter” with little to no reparation for the black trans women who paved the way for us. I hope this club and eventual non profit can reach black trans women (who are at the HIGHEST risk of violence) and other LGBTQ youth of color. This can not be started if I can not first get the help and approval of my university. I ask for everyone reading this to sign, share, and show this is more than a trend, this is more than a hashtag, and that queers of color deserved to be valued everyday. We deserve to have representation and outlets to express ourselves in our fullest of forms. Thank you.