Grants

In Fiscal Year 2007-2008, the International Fund Panel issued a total of $469,831 to 74 organizations based in 55 towns and cities across 40 countries.

AFRICA

Alternatives-Cameroun (Douala, Cameroon) Grant is for research, public education and electronic media work related to an anti-homophobia campaign throughout Cameroon. $5,000

Botswana Network on Ethics, Law and HIV/AIDS—Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals of Botswana Project (Gabarone, Botswana) Grant supports their Human Rights and HIV program, which educates the community through monthly radio shows and biweekly newspaper ads. $6,000 legabibo.org.bw

Collectif Arc-En-Ciel (Quatre Bornes, Mauritius) Grant supports staffing and operation costs for their drop-in center—the only LGBT center in the country—and for the development of community education and organizing materials. $4,000

Freedom and Roam Uganda (Kampala, Uganda) Grant is for rent, staff salaries, a sports club and an advocacy program encouraging local policy makers and women’s rights groups to support lesbian rights. $10,000 faruganda.org

Gender DynamiX (Athlone, South Africa) Grant is for community outreach, research and advocacy on behalf of transgender issues in South Africa, and for the development of transgender awareness and leadership in other parts of the African continent. $5,000 genderdynamix.org.za

Horizons Community Association (Kigali, Rwanda) Grant supports Horizon’s first office space, as well as community education and advocacy for the defense of LGBTI people in Rwanda. $5,000

Icebreakers Uganda (Kampala, Uganda) is the only youth-specific LGBT organization in Uganda. Grant supports training and community outreach, human rights advocacy and HIV prevention work, and the development of a website. $5,000

Lambda-Mozambique Association for Sexual Minority Rights (Maputo, Mozambique) Grant helps to challenge the morality laws that effectively criminalize those who transgress sexual and gender norms, and supports community education about LGBT people. $7,000 lambda.org.mz

SMUG —Sexual Minorities Uganda (Kampala, Uganda) Grant supports this coalition of four LGBT groups to develop local strategy and coordinate emergency support for activists persecuted for their human rights advocacy. $9,961 sexualminoritiesuganda.org

South African Youth Liberating Organisation (Estcourt, South Africa) Grant supports training and education on sexual orientation and diversity, human rights and HIV/AIDS prevention for school staff and students in rural areas. $5,000

Tanzania Lesbian Association (Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania) Grant supports lesbian human rights monitoring and their lesbian-led “clean-up” project addressing local government neglect of the environment. $10,000

AMERICAS

Aireana—Grupo por los Derechos de las Lesbianas (Asunción, Paraguay) Grant supports weekly consciousness-raising and leadership meetings and campaigns pressing for a national anti-discrimination law; and an Inter-American convention on sexual and reproductive rights. $10,000

Asamblea Feminista (La Paz, Bolivia) Grant supports expenses associated with this lesbian feminist group’s refurbishing of the Carcajadas feminist coffeehouse, and for traveling community organizing sessions throughout Bolivia. $5,000

Associaçao Lésbica de Minas (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) Grant supports this Black lesbian organization’s mobilization of women to strengthen multi-issue social movements, and build community knowledge on the new national domestic violence law. $7,000 alem.org.br

Asociación ALFIL (Quito, Ecuador) Grant supports this transgender-led organization’s consciousness-raising work on gender identity, sexual orientation and sexual health through theater and peer outreach. $5,000

Asociación Queretana de Educación para las Sexualidades Humanas (Querétaro, México) Grant supports staffing, travel, advocacy meetings and education materials associated with the group’s anti-homophobia campaign in five rural towns. $6,000 mx.geocities.com/aquesex_ac

Centro de Documentaçao e Informaçao Coisa De Mulher (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Grant supports the lesbian art and culture project of COLERJ, CEDOICOM’s program for Black lesbians.Projects include Brazil’s first national lesbian short story and essay contest, a performance exhibition and a magazine. $5,000 coisademulher.org.br

Colectiva Feminista “La Revuelta” (Neuquén, Argentina) Grant supports La Diversidad Sexual en el Cine, a lesbian film festival and filmmaking project. $5,000

Colectiva Lesbo Muro Activista La Perlita (Santiago, Chile) Grant supports lesbian social activism tools including the purchase of a printing press and the creation of InformaLES, an independent news bulletin that seeks to counteract mainstream media’s silence on issues of marginalized communities nationwide. $7,000 fotolog.com/laperlita

Colectivo de Investigación Acción en Derecho Trans-Familia Galán (La Paz, Bolivia) Grant supports the establishment of Bolivia’s first center for transgender activists and academics. $6,000

Colectivo Sentimos Diverso (Bogotá, Colombia) Grant supports staffing and office costs for this organization serving LGBT youth. $5,000

Coordinadora Universitaria por la Diversidad Sexual (Santiago, Chile) Grant supports this organization of public university students in their efforts to engage the student community on sexual diversity issues and to develop anti-discrimination policies in public universities. $6,000 cuds.cl

Corporación Triangulo Negro (Bogotá, Colombia) Grant supports planning for the second Sexually Diverse Women’s Summit, and strengthening the organization’s new chapter in Barranquilla, a conservative town in Colombia. $7,000 triangulonegro.org

Desalambrando Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina) In an effort to decrease intimate partner violence among lesbians in Argentina and throughout Latin America, grant supports community education, direct services, research and advocacy. $9,000

La Casa del Encuentro (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Grant supports Carpa Callejera Mensual, a lesbian traveling tent visiting marginalized areas in and around Buenos Aires to organize women against sexist and lesbophobic prejudice and violence. $5,000 lacasadelencuentro.com.ar

Fortaleciendo la Diversidad (San Luis Potosí, México) Grant supports this organization of transgender women’s peer-to-peer Know Your Rights training, human rights monitoring with sex workers, and advocacy efforts with local police authorities. $6,000

Fundación de Desarrollo Humano Integral CAUSANA (Quito, Ecuador) Grant supports the Lesbianas Alzando la Voz project, which seeks to develop lesbian leadership and active involvement in Ecuador’s current constitutional process through workshops, actions and summits. $5,000

Futuro Transgenérico (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Grant supports this transgender sex workers’ organization, which uses art and culture as a tool for community-building and organizing.Grant will also assist in the development of alternative income-generation projects for its members. $8,000

Grupo Afirmativo de Mulheres Independentes do RN (Natal, Brazil) Grant supports efforts to: engage lesbian and bisexual women in developing a lesbian feminist identity; prevent HIV/AIDS in light of the tourism-driven sex work industry in the area; and strategize alternative income-generating activities. $6,000

Grupo de Mujeres de la Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina) Grant works to improve conditions of incarcerated LBT women in Argentina’s prison system. Grant also supports costs of sexual health print and multimedia materials, and office expenses. $5,000

Grupo de Mujeres Safo (Managua, Nicaragua) Grant is for general support, workshop facilitators and a temporary shelter for women fleeing family abuse due to their sexual orientation. The organization, part of a visible LGBT coalition, can be credited for passage of a new country penal code decriminalizing homosexuality. $7,000

Grupo Transas do Corpo (Goiânia, Brazil) Grant supports the development of the lesbian feminist group Lilases, serving young women in the state of Goiás, in central western Brazil. $5,000

Instituto Runa de Desarrollo y Estudios sobre Género (Lima, Perú) Grant supports this organization’s transgender rights training project for grassroots groups, the police force and the auxiliary police in an area of high trans-phobic violence. $6,000 runa.org.pe

Lesbianas Independientes Feministas y Socialistas (Lima, Perú) Grant supports two part-time staff, an office and outreach materials for this multi-issue lesbian organization. $4,000 lifsperu.blogspot.com

Mujeres al Borde (Bogotá, Colombia) Grant supports the first physical space for this lesbian and bisexual women’s cultural group, as well as development of socially conscious film, theater and community education workshops. Mujeres al Borde’s productions have won critical acclaim in independent art forums in Colombia and throughout the Latin American region. $10,000 mujeresalborde.org

Mujeres y Cultura Subterránea (Nezahualcoyotl, México) Grant supports promotion of sexual health and sexual rights for low-income lesbians through alternative art expression and development. $6,000

Organización de Transexuales por la Dignidad de la Diversidad (Rancagua, Chile) Grant supports advocacy for laws and policies that ensure the dignity and freedom of transgender people in Chile. $6,000 hombrestransdechile.cl

Red de Respuesta Lésbica “Cattrachas” (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) Grant supports this lesbian network’s media and human rights monitoring program; public policy advocacy; and community-building work in regions outside the capital city. $8,000

Rompiendo el Silencio (Santiago, Chile) Grant supports the launch of Chile’s first lesbian print magazine by this media organization. $6,000 rompiendoelsilencio.cl

Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores Lesbianas, Gays, y Bisexuales Luis Gauthier (Santiago, Chile) Grant supports a 12-week course for low-income union leaders on gender, sexuality and power and their connections to labor and economic justice.The course develops LGBT allies among rank and file workers and builds peer support for LGBT workers. $6,000

Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (Georgetown, Guyana) Grant supports this human rights advocacy and education organization’s fourth annual film festival, raising consciousness and visibility of LGBT issues throughout the region. $5,000 geocities.com/sasod_guyana

Telemanita, A.C. (Tepoztlán, México) Grant supports a project to train 16 lesbian activists to use film as a tool for social change and to transfer a portion of their VHS archives into DVD format. $5,000 telemanita.net

TRANS-SER—Red de Apoyo a Transgeneristas (Bogotá, Colombia) Grant supports this multi-strategy network advocating for and serving transgender people in Colombia. $5,000 trans-ser.org

ASIA

Arus Pelangi (Jakarta, Indonesia) Grant supports a hotline, advocacy and community mobilization, legal aid and support services for the LGBT community in a religious-conservative environment. $7,000 aruspelangi.or.id

Awakening Foundation (Taipei, Taiwan) Grant supports this feminist organization’s Variform Family Law project, which seeks official redefinition of the concept of family and diverse family forms. $4,000 awakening.org.tw

Blue Diamond Society (Kathmandu, Nepal) Grant supports opening centers for LBT women in all five geographic areas of Nepal as well as developing services and advocacy to address sexism, lesbophobia and transphobia. See page 29. $6,000 bds.org.np

Chengdu Les’΄Go (Chengdu, China) Grant supports this lesbian organization’s media outreach tools including a web forum, an online broadcasting system, a permanent space for community activities, and a library resource room. $4,000 ylh.netsh.com.cn

Common Language (Beijing, China) Grant is for hosting the 2008 Lala Camp Tour, a traveling leadership institute in five regions of China. The group co-organized the historic 2007 Lala Camp in southern China, which convened close to 100 LBT activists for the first time. $10,000 lalabar.com

les + workshop (Beijing, China) Grant supports the production and distribution of six issues of China’s only lesbian print magazine, one of the most important resources connecting the lesbian movement in the country. $5,000 blog.sina.com.cn/lesplus

Nutongxueshe (Hong Kong) Grant supports cultural and public education; a website and webcast station; and a popular tongzhi (LGBT) art exhibit designed to generate LGBT media coverage to combat Christian-fundamentalist–led backlash campaigns in Hong Kong. $5,000 leslovestudy.com

PA/F Space (Tokyo, Japan) Grant is for the rent and maintenance expenses of this lesbian-led cultural center in Japan where LGBT people, feminists, immigrants and progressive activists plan and celebrate social justice work. $6,000 pafnight.com

Rainbow Rights Project, Inc. (Manila, Philippines) Grant supports planning, implementation and resource materials for participants of this lesbian-led organization’s Rainbow Exchanges/Dyke Dialogues—monthly discussion groups designed to spur local organizing. $7,000

Rainbow Sky (Bangkok, Thailand) Grant supports this LGBT group’s hiring of a part-time lesbian program coordinator, weekly meetings, and leadership development sessions for 30 lesbians. $4,000 fasiroong.org

Sappho for Equality (Kolkata, India) Grant supports the Chetana Sexuality Resource Center, which offers: sexual rights education and advocacy workshops; a psychological and legal counseling hotline; youth mobilization opportunities; and a leadership development program for lesbians, bisexual women and trans people. $10,000 sapphokolkata.org

Shanghai Nuai Lesbian Group (Shanghai, China) Grant is for general support of the first lesbian organization in Shanghai and their oral history project—one of four regular programs designed to strengthen and support the local lesbian community. $5,000

Women Coalition of HKSAR (Hong Kong) Grant supports this LBT women’s organization’s public education and advocacy programs for the rights of sexual minorities in cultural, legal and educational institutions in Hong Kong. $5,000 wchk.org

EASTERN EUROPE/COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

Expanse of Gender and Media Culture Common Zone (Zagreb, Croatia) Grant is for this media arts organization’s production of Transgenderosity—the first-ever documentary about transgender people and issues in the former Yugoslavia. $7,000 cunterview.net

Fundacja Przestrzen Kobiet/Women’s Space Foundation (Szczawnica, Poland) Grant supports office costs and community trainings throughout Poland for the anti-sexism and anti-homophobia work of this feminist organization. $5,000 przestrzenkobiet.blox.pl

Gayten LGBT-Center for the Promotion of LGBT Human Rights (Belgrade, Serbia) Grant is for the first-ever trans-focused program in Eastern Europe.The program currently includes a support group, a community education forum and website development. $6,000 gay-serbia.com

Labrisz Leszbikus Egyesület (Budapest, Hungary) Grant supports rent and maintenance costs for Hungary’s only organization for lesbian and bisexual women. $7,000 labrisz.hu

Lesbian Organization Rijeka LORI (Rijeka, Croatia) Grant is for this lesbian organization’s psychosocial support to lesbians and a campaign for the acceptance of LGBTIQ people by their families. $6,000 lori.hr

Lezbijska Grupa Kontra (Zagreb, Croatia) Grant supports staffing and an upgrade of technological and financial systems for this lesbian feminist organization. Via legal, media and policy advocacy, the group works to defend and secure human rights for LGBT people in Croatia. $9,000 kontra.hr

Museion (Bratislava, Slovakia) Grant supports a national and regional LGBT activist network and the establishment of Queer Forum, a vehicle to introduce LGBT rights to the public. $8,000

Novi Sad Lesbian Organization (Novi Sad, Serbia) Grant supports a three-day festival of arts, culture and political education hosted by this lesbian organization located in a non-urban area of Serbia. $5,000

Qendra per Emancipim Shoqeror (Prishtina, Kosovo) Grant is for the first LGBT organization in the newest country in the world to develop a lesbian and bisexual women’s program to strengthen community and increase visibility. $5,000 qesh-ks.org

Queer Beograd (Belgrade, Serbia) Grant supports a four-day festival designed to address the invisibility of LGBT people in Belgrade public spaces, where there have not been major street gatherings since the violent pride event in 2001. $5,000 queerbeograd.org

Rromjako Ilo (Belgrade, Serbia) Grant supports this feminist organization’s gender, sexuality and lesbian identity workshops—the first-ever effort to explicitly integrate lesbian issues into the Roma women’s rights agenda. $5,000

Sbadnati Mechti (Blagoedgrav, Bulgaria) Grant supports the Equal Chance For All of Us project to engage the local LGBT community and educate local business and civic leaders on homophobia, LGBT issues and multiple types of discrimination in this remote area of Southwestern Bulgaria. $4,000 sbadnatimechti@abv.bg

SKUC-LL (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Grant supports staffing and office expenses for one of the oldest LGBT groups in Eastern Europe.For over two decades, their LGBT library and archive project has served as a critical resource for the region’s sexual rights movement. $10,000 ljudmila.org/lesbo

Udruzenje Q/Organization Q (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) Grant is for general support, as well as membership and community-building.In the past year this LGBTIQ organization engaged in a strategic planning process and worked to change the sexist and homophobic language of textbooks used in Bosnian schools.See pages 26 and 29. $10,000 queer.ba/udruzenje.htm

MIDDLE EAST

Aswat—Palestinian Gay Women (Haifa, Israel) Grant supports organizing and advocacy activities in Israel and the Middle East from a Palestinian, feminist, gay-women’s perspective, as well as the development of a long-term fundraising strategy. $10,000 aswatgroup.org

Meem—A Lesbian Community in Lebanon (Beirut, Lebanon) Grant is for the group’s first office space, a quarterly magazine and a survival guide for lesbians. $5,000 meemgroup.org