Join Us for Outsummit 2025
Learn. Share. Act.
Join the Global Movement Virtually:
November 7, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM EST
Live-Streamed from New York, N.Y.
Conference (Free)
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Join Outright International, LGBTIQ activists, researchers, and allies from around the globe for Outsummit — our annual conference to advance the human rights and inclusion of LGBTIQ people everywhere.
Outsummit brings together people from across civil society, government, philanthropy, and business to strategize and build momentum to accelerate change for LGBTIQ people. This year, as Outright celebrates 35 years, Outsummit is focused on learning from the last 35 years of global LGBTIQ activism to address the challenges of our time. Check back soon for announcements regarding session topics, panelists, and other ways you can join the conversation.
Outright International is deeply grateful to Outsummit Host and Presenting Supporter, Deutsche Bank.
Why You Should Attend Outsummit 2025
Outsummit is all about celebrating international LGBTIQ voices, amplifying strategies for justice, advocating for LGBTIQ people’s human rights, and supporting the global queer movement. By attending, you'll join a community of passionate change-makers driving real, sustainable impact for LGBTIQ communities worldwide.
Program
OutSummit is more than just a conference; it’s a global call to action. It promises to be a powerful, insightful experience for all attendees, bringing together a global coalition committed to advancing LGBTIQ persons' human rights and justice. Don't miss your chance to be part of the movement.
Sessions
Our Rights Under Siege
This session will launch Outright International’s new research project, A Year in Attacks on Trans, Intersex, and Nonbinary People’s Human Rights, documenting the wave of restrictive laws and political initiatives introduced across the world in 2025. The project maps new legislative and policy initiatives in at least 10 countries that seek to undermine the rights of trans, intersex, and nonbinary communities and underscores how backlash against gender diversity has intensified globally.
Following the presentation of key findings, activists will offer reflections on other forms of anti-LGBTIQ, anti-gender backlash that currently prevail in different regions.
Moving the Needle: Humanitarian Inclusion, Legal Reform, and Visibility
This session features a keynote speech from Vitaliy Zakharchuk, Head of Branch Outright in Ukraine, who will highlight the steps Outright´s team in Ukraine has taken to achieve a truly inclusive humanitarian response. Zakharchuk will discuss the impact of this work on the daily lives of LGBTIQ people, over three years into the Russian full-scale invasion. Additionally, Zakharchuk will explain the urgent need for such changes to happen at the global level of humanitarian aid. Zakharchuk’s keynote will be followed by a panel featuring other global LGBTIQ success stories from 2025, including decriminalization in Saint Lucia, the successful organization of Budapest Pride in Hungary, global advances in intersex visibility, and legal reforms that have the potential to advance trans people’s rights.
Inclusive Economies: How LBQ Communities Are Working to Achieve Economic Self-Sufficiency
Join us to continue our discussion on an emerging focus in the global LGBTIQ movement – achieving inclusive economies. From educational advancement to banking services to job opportunities, LGBTIQ people are deprived of the necessities of a dignified life. Lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women face even more challenges as they navigate multiple layers of discrimination. This session will build upon our previous work on inclusive economies, focusing on LBQ perspectives. It will address new strategies emerging from civil society groups and from donors seeking to direct more resources towards improving the lives of LGBTIQ people - especially LBQ women - so that all can live, work, create, and be who they are.
We Are Pro-Family. We Are Pro-Children
Far-right anti-gender movements claim to be protectors of children and “the family”--but exclusion and cruelty only harm families and kids, while pro-equality movements allow them to flourish. This session will highlight legal, political, and narrative attacks on LGBTIQ children’s right to education, trans and intersex kids’ right to affirming health care, and queer families’ right to exist and to be recognized. It will discuss activists' responses in harnessing solidarity to support diverse families and kids, through narrative change, law, and policy. Through this conversation, our communities will proudly reclaim the concepts of pro-family and pro-children.
This session is in two parts. The initial session will give a broad overview (30 minutes) and then break up into three groups on marriage and families, comprehensive sexuality education, and trans and intersex kids, delving deeper into advocacy strategies around these topics in group discussions that maximize audience participation.
Bridging the Rainbow: A Global LGBTIQ Intergenerational Dialogue
November 2025 marks 35 years since Outright International’s founding in 1990. This intergenerational panel brings together seasoned activists who have helped shape the global LGBTIQ movement and younger activists under 35 who are devising new approaches for advocacy. We will interrogate salient questions during this panel: How have our movement and work developed within the last 35 years? What strategies have older activists used in the past that can be used or adapted during these times? What are the new strategies developed by younger activists? What knowledge and collaborative gaps exist among the generations, and how can we close these gaps?
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