Added on: 12/24/2020
Sarah Leistico
Alturi Contributor
How did you initially become involved with activism and policy change? I have known since I was four-years-old that I am transgender. Later in life, after returning…
Regions: South America, Venezuela
Added on: 12/16/2020
Robert Blackmon
Project Director
How did you get involved in activism? To be lesbian in the homophobic and patriarchal Kyrgyz society means to be a second-class human being. It is a…
Regions: Asia, Kyrgyzstan
Added on: 12/07/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
How has the Out-Right Namibia community been impacted by COVID-19? The community has been greatly impacted by the pandemic. We are inundated with requests for assistance on…
Added on: 11/19/2020
Iván López-Justiniano
Alturi Contributor
Hear the Interview in Spanish How did you get involved in activism? Well, I actually did not start being an activist, I started as a…
Regions: North America, United States
Added on: 11/12/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
Can you tell me about how you decided to start The T Project? I’d been a sex worker for many years. Sex work is very mundane and…
Added on: 11/04/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
What is it like in terms of self-expression in Ghana? How does that affect LGBT people? There are quite a number of inequalities here, and it streams…
Added on: 10/23/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
I want to hear a bit about you. How did you become involved in LGBTI activism? The things that pushed me to be an activist centered around…
Added on: 10/14/2020
Sarah Leistico
Alturi Contributor
How did you become involved with LGBTIQ activism? I have experience in several professions such as teaching and fashion design. I never thought I would call myself…
Added on: 10/08/2020
Iván Lopez-Justiniano
Alturi Contributor
Listen to this interview in Spanish or read the translated transcription in English. https://www.alturi.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/audio_only.m4a How did you get involved in activism? I started doing activism work…
Regions: Central America and Caribbean, Costa Rica
Added on: 10/01/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
How did you become involved in LGBTI activism? I started my advocacy journey in HIV/AIDS work when I was about 14 years old. I went to a…
Regions: Belize, Central America and Caribbean
Added on: 09/23/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
I would love to hear a bit about your own introduction to LGBTI activism. Seven or eight years ago, I first started helping with Sofia Pride, which…
Added on: 09/17/2020
Ari Weinstein
Alturi Contributor
I’m wondering if you can tell me a little bit about what inspired the Sahodari Foundation. Since childhood, I’ve had difficult experiences because of my transgender identity….