Abstract: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) or queers and migrants remain groups that are easily marked as deviant and scapegoated for societal ills. Despite increased visibility for LGBT or queer activism since the late 20th Century and events such as the pro-migrant rights marches of 2006, these groups remain primary targets of systemic oppression. Though robust bodies of scholarship on queer issues and migrant issues exist, scholars have only recently begun to explore the intersections between queer and migrant issues. In light of the forces of neo-liberal globalization that reconfigure both migrants and queers as well as queer migrants, more research is needed to understand these global processes. Activists in two organizations in Tucson, Arizona have considered the relationships between migrant and queer rights for years. While activists in Coalición de Derechos Humanos (CDH), a grassroots migrant rights organization and Wingspan, Southern Arizona's LGBT Community Center have long been in coalition, recent events such as increased attention to migration issues in the United States and a host of anti-queer and anti-migrant ballot measures and proposed legislation in Arizona have led them to step up their joint work. Wingspan and CDH utilize a variety of rhetorical and collaborative strategies to highlight the relationships between queer and migrant oppression and to challenge that oppression together. This project thus adds to the burgeoning body of scholarship on queer and migrant issues, as well as an enduring body of work on coalitional and alliance-based politics. Based on a year-long qualitative research project doing activist work with CDH and Wingspan, this study uncovers the relationships that activists see between the ways migrants and queers are rhetorically constructed that have led to coalition building. This project also unpacks the strategies these groups use in their coalition and offers pragmatic recommendations for activists and scholars interested in coalition work that responds to the forces of neo-liberal globalization.