Blog: Perspectives

OutRight Action International is grateful to be Popvibe's beneficiary for the proceeds from the Pride Bracelet, which "holds all the strength, love & colors representing this multi-cultural community."

Applications close for the OutRight global LGBTIQ movement to advocate at the United Nations. Every December, OutRight hosts LGBTIQ activists from around the world in New York for a week of high level meetings and activities around Human Rights Day (December 10th).

Today, the World Health Organization announced the release of the International Classification of Diseases-11. The revision comes 18 years after the last ICD was implemented. In a historic move, hard fought by trans groups and advocates as well as experts and professionals, being trans is no longer considered a mental disorder.

For both Paola Harris and Christoff Visscher, their brands were born out of the sense that there was something missing in the tabletop gaming world.

Harris, a fan of Dungeons & Dragons, started her own online store, Paola’s Pixels, because she was unable to find any Dungeons & Dragons merchandise that was “cute and colorful”; the only things that were available were, in her words, “so dark.”

LGBTI Core Group and OutRight worked with the Free and Equal Campaign and allies to host the United Nations event "Alliances for Equality."

Issues impacting the lesbian community all around the world are often silenced, unaddressed, and sidelined. In this patriarchal, misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic world, lesbians face double discrimination: first for identifying as women and second for their sexual orientation. Lesbians who express themselves as butch, are gender non-conforming, or present themselves outside of society’s accepted gender constructs, can often face even harsher victimization.