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Hurricane Relief – Help Rebuild LGBTI Lives in the Caribbean

  Most relief work in the Caribbean is administered by religious organizations, which often leaves LGBTI people without help. Our friends at Alturi show a way to directly fund the Caribbean’s most vulnerable communities:

From Alturi: In the Caribbean it can be extremely difficult to reach members of the LGBTI community, but in the wake of Irma’s destruction, reach them we must. Alturi is…

Curating 2016’s Brighton Pride Uniting Nations exhibition was one of the most inspiring times of of my working life. Speaking to Pride activists across the world doing their thing to raise the rainbow flag and fight for equality in often the most challenging of regimes. Fighting back, fighting for love. Everyone of the countries I work with stayed with me. And always will. A post on a feed, a…

People-to-people: How to help LGBT folks in repressive lands

Map of the 79 countries with laws against sexual relations between people of the same sex. (To see the list compiled by Erasing 76 Crimes, click on the map.)

Q. A journalist asked, “How can ordinary people in liberal democracies help improve life for LGBT folks in countries where just being LGBT is against the law?”

My answer is below. What is yours? (Please comment!)

I wrote this quickly,…