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What a week! Our CEO Alex and I have just spent the last few days at the biannual ILGA World conference in Cape Town, where we’ve been surrounded by our friends, colleagues and partners from around the world and from across the global LGBTI+ movement.
Participating in spaces like this conference are an important reminder of how valuable opportunities to come together as a movement are. They serve as spaces for solidarity and movement building and help us activists and our allies build our resilience and plan together for the future. This is especially important at a time when, globally, far-right populists are gaining power and LGBTI+ communities and our rights are being used for political gain and are under attack.
Over the past few days, we’ve heard from brave individuals from all over the world fighting day in and day out for the rights and dignity of their communities at home and abroad, against huge odds. We’ve learned of the life-changing and life-saving work LGBTI+ activists are carrying out from the grassroots to the global level, in countries from South Africa to Tonga, Jamaica to India, Canada to Namibia. Our global movement is diverse and the communities we belong to and represent contain a multitude of identities, needs and abilities.
As we work to support one another in a more unpredictable and threatening world, we must remember to bring an intersectional lens to our work to better understand how different parts of our community experience in different ways – and so be able to find better solutions.
We at Kaleidoscope Trust are dedicated to fighting for a future where LGBTI+ people worldwide can live free, safe and equal lives. Since our foundation in 2011, our mission has been to support and strengthen the global LGBTI+ movement and to build diverse coalitions for change. Our advocacy with the UK Government and in the Commonwealth and our efforts to resource and support our partners’ work for their communities are central to delivering this mission.
As this past week has reminded us so clearly, our contribution to the global movement is more urgent than ever. So we will speak louder so those in power hear our voices more clearly. We will stand in greater solidarity with our partners all over the world. And we will continue our fight for LGBTI+ equality everywhere.
Jesse Sperling
Deputy Director
The pressing LGBTI+ human rights challenges of our day can only be solved through collaboration, whether that be with grassroots or international human rights organisations, governments and funding bodies – and people that really care, like you.
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