Land Acknowledgement

LEAD LGBT Ministry and St. Matthew occupy the ancestral lands of the Piscataway and Susquehannock Nations. Baltimore has become a home to members of many tribal nations, most notably the Lumbee, who migrated here in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for a variety of reasons, including to pursue work opportunities and in an effort to escape the increasing restrictions of Jim Crow segregation in the South. Many Indigenous communities were displaced from their lands, an American history whose legacies of dispossession and injustice they still contend with today.

As Catholics, we are called by our values to engage in active discernment about the role that the Catholic Church has played in the settler violence against Indigenous nations. LEAD LGBT Ministry is committed to calling out continued systemic injustice, repairing historic and continuing harms, and renewing our commitment to working in solidarity to heal this land.