Discrimination and Equality

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018

Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)

Our primary beneficiaries include LGBT Guyanese persons, and others who do not identify as heterosexual or cis-gender. SASOD focuses its work on combating homophobia, advancing human rights,…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018

Akahatá – Equipo de Trabajo en Sexualidades y Géneros

Programs: Regional and International Advocacy: Akahatá is working to advance human rights at international bodies such as the United Nations and Organization of American States (OAS) since…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018

Friends of Prague Pride

We are ambitious: By 2020, Prague Pride aims to be Czech Republic’s leading LGBT Centre of Influence for its excellence in advocacy, services for the LGBT community…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018

Friends of Zagreb Pride

When initiated, the Zagreb Pride March was conceived as a protest march against homophobia, transphobia and patriarchy, while at the same time it has been a tool…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 02/01/2018

Arus Pelangi

The vision of the founding fathers of the Republic of Indonesia has always been a pluralist, multi-cultural society where even sexual minorities should have their rightful place….

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

Heartland Alliance

Heartland Alliance’s Global Initiative for Sexuality and Human Rights (GISHR) stands behind activists who are improving the lives of LGBT persons — promoting their rights and protecting them…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

The Advocates for Human Rights (The Advocates) is a volunteer-based non-governmental organization committed to the impartial promotion and protection of international human rights standards and the rule…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

American Jewish World Service

AJWS is the fourth largest U.S.-based funder of global LGBTI rights worldwide. Since 2005, AJWS has invested nearly $9.5 million in global LGBTI rights. In 2013 alone,…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

Astraea Foundation

The Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice is a multi-gendered, multi-racial, multi-identity organization that prioritizes and supports the leadership of women, transgender people, youth, and people of color….

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

Human Rights Watch

The Human Rights Watch lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights program has fought for over a decade to end human rights violations based on sexual orientation…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

Human Rights First

LGBT rights are human rights, period. Human Rights First works to ensure that these rights are incorporated into the United States’ foreign policy agenda and advanced on…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/31/2018

Advocates for Youth

Advocates for Youth works across the U.S. and developing world to advance youth sexual health and rights to further a vision of a society in which all…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/24/2018

Alternatives-Cameroun

Alternatives-Cameroun’s mission includes advocating nationally and internationally for the human rights of the LGBTI population. The association also provides direct support to individual community members in the form…

Alturi Partner

Added on: 01/20/2018

Amnesty International

With more than 7 million supporters, activists and volunteers in more than 150 countries, and complete independence from government, corporate or ideological interests, we work to protect…

World Voices

Added on: 09/20/2017

The Long Struggle in the Heart of Carnival

Alturi Contributor

Since 1989, it has been a member of the Ministry of Heath’s National Commission to Control AIDS, and since 1995 it has been one of the coordinators of the…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2017

The Circuitous Route to Marriage Equality

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

“I came out as bisexual to my younger brother when I started college and he was very supportive. I was living at home at the time and…

World Voices

Added on: 08/20/2017

Helping Namibia Out of the Closet

Alturi Contributor

Following a series of hate crime attacks, members of Namibia’s LGBT community took to the streets of the capital Windhoek for a Pride march on Saturday, July…

World Voices

Added on: 03/14/2017

Working for Change

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Joseph Aoun manages Helem’s newly reopened community center – one of the few safe spaces for LGBTIQ residents of Beirut. He came to the organization seven months…

World Voices

Added on: 03/14/2017

LGBT Voices From Sudan

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Azza identifies as a Sudanese lesbian, Muslim, Nubian feminist who finds inspiration in the many intersections of her identity. She began her activism in 2007 using social…

World Voices

Added on: 01/13/2017

Q&A with Creator of “All About Sec 377”

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Alturi: How did the idea for “All About Sec 377” come about? How has it evolved over time? Gypsy: I have a small and relatively new production…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2016

Bringing LGBTI News from Turkey to the World

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Her work as an urban sociologist in Istanbul has brought an understanding of social norms as a constraint on the ways people define themselves and, for her,…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2016

Hearing LGBTI Lives

Robert Blackmon

Alturi Project Director

Mike highlights his interview with John Adewoye, “a former priest who battled with his sexual orientation for many years, denying the truth of who he is, and…

World Voices

Added on: 09/14/2016

Conversion Therapy in the UK

Alturi Contributor

As the battle over the future of Obamacare returns in the United States, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service is often held up as a more enlightened…