Azza Sultan is the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Program Advisor at OutRight Action International, based in Washington DC. She came to OutRight in 2020 from Grindr, where she was the associate director of Grindr for Equality, the app's initiative to promote justice, health, and safety for LGBTIQ people around the globe.
Azza is a Sudanese American queer activist. She is a co-founder of several prominent LGBTIQ organizations in the MENA region, including Bedayaa organization, Mesahat Foundation for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the Queer Women Network (QWN), and the North Africa Center for Strategic Partnerships (NACSP). Azza started her queer activism in 2007 by publishing queer poems and short stories on blogs and social media to raise awareness around sexual orientation and gender identity issues, and provide alternative literature and discourse for queer, lesbian and bisexual Arabic-speaking women in the MENA region.
