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From shame to pride.
June 5, 2019| Contributed by Daina Rudusa - OutRight Sr Communications Manager
Pride is protest. Pride is celebration. It is defiance, rebellion, revolution. It is a manifestation of one of our basic human rights – the freedom of assembly. Pride can be a city-wide festival, a march, or an underground gathering concealed from eyes of the authorities. Pride is diversity, beauty, love. It can last hours, days, a month, or be over in a matter of minutes. In some places it is not only state-sanctioned, but heralded. In others – banned -, and its organizers - persecuted.
World Pride 2019 in NYC!
June 4, 2019| Contributed by Cäcille Ealy - OutRight Development Associate
Pride season is officially here – or should we say World Pride season? This is THE time of year to be Queer!
This World Pride will be a lot of firsts for me. I’ve never – not once – marched in a single Pride March before, or even participated in one. Well, I suppose that’s bound to change.
One step closer. Criminalization of homophobia and transphobia in Brazil.
May 30, 2019| Contributed by Lua Da Mota Stabile - Outright Religion Fellow from Brazil
Brazil’s Supreme Court decision to criminalize homophobia and transphobia should be a step in the right direction to avoid impunity in the future. But not the only step.
Interview with Points of Light Award Winner Elliot Vaughn
May 15, 2019| Contributed by Em Rubey - OutRight Executive Assistant
Interview with Elliot Vaughn, board member of OutRight Action International, and a partner at Boston Consulting Group in London. Earlier this week he was recognised by the UK Prime Minister with the Points of Light award for founding GiveOut, a new charity in the UK supporting LGBTIQ activists around the world.
Conversion Therapy And The Problem With Banning It
May 10, 2019| Contributed by Bella FitzPatrick - Executive Director of ShoutOut
For the past two weeks, I have been elbow deep conversion therapy research, specifically legislation banning it around the world, and the opposition to such bans as part of my role in OutRight Action International. I will not rehash the many studies that show that conversion therapy (CT) is profounding detrimental to a person’s wellbeing. It is very clear that there is no scientific basis for CT, and it has been rejected by every major psychologist organisation worldwide. Nevertheless, it is banned in only very few places (and a CT ban doesn’t a queer-friendly nation make, in many countries with a ban it was because the CT there was the most violent and reprehensible); Malta, Ecuador, Brazil, parts of Spain, a few others but also in all these places CT still occurs.
What rights do we expect in a futuristic Estonia? A lense into LGBTIQ equality in EKRE’s Estonia
May 10, 2019| Contributed by Angel Jingwei Li - OutRight Intern
*opinions expressed are those of the author.
In Estonian mythical folklore, Valge Laev is a white ship that brings freedom, or takes people away to a better land. Led by the prophet, the people gather near Tallinn to wait for the ship. If the new technology that Estonia has introduced is building the big white ship, will the conflicted values between its passengers make it capsize?
Spring for LGBTQ rights in Tunisia
May 2, 2019| Contributed by Suraj Girijashanker - David W. Leebron Fellow at the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality and OutRight Action International
Suraj Girijashanker is a David W. Leebron Fellow at the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality and OutRight Action International.
Frontline Alliance: Caribbean Partnerships Against Gender-Based Violence
April 24, 2019| Contributed by Neish McLean - OutRight Caribbean Program Officer
OutRight Action International is pleased to announce its partnership with Caribbean LGBTIQ organizations and the establishment of the project - “Frontline Alliance: Caribbean Partnerships Against Gender Based Violence.”
OutRight Announces New Board Co-Chairs
April 22, 2019| Contributed by OutRight
OutRight Action International is pleased to announce the appointment of new co-chairs to its Board of Directors: Micheal Ighodaro and Valerie Ploumpis. Each of them brings tremendous expertise, grace and love to OutRight. Together, they make a powerful duo with sharp insights into LGBTIQ organizing and a heartfelt commitment to human rights.
Peaceful Protest Outside of Embassy of Brunei Darussalam in Bangkok
April 11, 2019| Contributed by Chumaporn Tk - Guest blogger
This week, a the group of more than 30 human rights activists, LGBTQIN+ activists and civil society representatives from Thailand and other South East Asian countries gathered in front of the Embassy of Brunei Darussalam in downtown Bangkok.
United Caribbean Trans Network launches first regional network to promote the human rights of trans persons in the Caribbean
April 8, 2019| Contributed by Guest writer
United Caribbean Trans Network (UCTRANS) is the first Caribbean trans initiate that will encompass our voices together to advocate on behalf of the Caribbean trans community to promote the protection and ecognition of the human rights of trans persons in our region.
The Vatican Shies Away From Condemning Criminalization And Conversion Therapy of LGBTIQ People
April 5, 2019| Contributed by OutRight
Earlier today, on 5 April 2019, the Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin met international lawyers and civil society representatives who urged the papacy to take a strong stand against conversion therapy and criminalization of same-sex relations.
Last Phase of Sharia Law Implemented In Brunei
April 3, 2019| Contributed by OutRight
(Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei) As of 3 April, 2019 the final elements of Sharia law passed back in 2014 come into force in Brunei, with particularly worrying consequences for women and LGBTIQ people.
63rd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women Statement by the LGBTI Core Group
March 27, 2019| Contributed by OutRight UN Program
I have the honor to deliver this statement on behalf of the Member States of the LGBTI Core Group.
The Necessity for a Minority Movement and How to Get Involved in Seismic Change
March 15, 2019| Contributed by Logan Libretti - Florida High School Student
Iran. Mauritania. Nigeria. Saudi Arabia. What do these nations have in common? Their proximity to the equator? To one another? Nope. Try again. Oh, I know. Is it that same-sex sexual acts are punishable by death? Bingo.