Blog: Perspectives

Senior Adviser for Global Advocacy Paul Jansen talks to Kwanzaa Vinaa and Ryan Korbarri in Jakarta about the particular impact of COVID-19 on trans women in Indonesia, such as losing work on the streets, not being able to access government support due to lack of ID documents, and rising violence.

Today OutRight Action International has joined an unprecedented coalition of 12 global equality organizations to express our grave concern that “while COVID-19 is indiscriminate, the impacts of state responses to it are not”.

OutRight TV becomes "OutRight Love Connection", as Executive Director Jessica Stern talks to friend and former Outright board member Monroe France about getting sick with COVID-19, and what that was like for him as a single man living alone.

OutRight's Sr Communications Manager, Daina Ruduša, speaks to Tina Kolos Orban from Transvanilla in Hungary about Prime Minister Orban's growing authoritarianism, using COVID19 as an excuse to amass more power, and Tina finding sanctuary on a farm.

MJ Moneymaker, OutRight's digital communications manager chats with Kim Windvogel, a former OutRight Religion Fellow, about South Africa's five-week military quarantine, not showering for 36 hours, South Africans standing up for their rights and our gratitude to all the artists who are creating art 'providing everything for us'.

With 90 countries in lockdown and nearly four billion people sheltering at home from the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic violence has become an epidemic within an epidemic. In response, UN Secretary-General Guterres called for a global “ceasefire” on domestic violence, lending high-level support to this long-standing demand.

The Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex (LBTI) Caucus is an informal coalition of over 300 representatives from every region of the world working to advance gender equality internationally, regionally, nationally, and locally.