ACCEPT-Bucharest Acceptance Group (Bucharest, Romania) is the country's first non-governmental organization to work with public policymakers on fostering acceptance of the LGBT community in Romanian society.  ACCEPT maintains the only library in the country specializing in gender and sexual orientation issues, and works to raise the level of student and teacher awareness of LGBT issues in the public school systems. $12,000

Centro Para La Educacion Y Prevencion Del SIDA (Managua, Nicaragua) works to decriminalize homosexuality in Nicaragua and is organizing the third campaign against Penal Code Article 204 (mandating prison sentences of one to three years for anyone who "induces, promotes, propagandizes, or practices in a scandalous manner, the cohabitation of individuals of the same sex").  $35,000 
 
Coletivo de Feministas Lesbicas de Sao Paulo (San Paulo, Brazil) is creating the Lesbian Action Cultural Center, which will host a parliamentary commission composed of lesbian members.  The Commission intends to propose a host of legislative changes and promote the issue of LGBT rights before the National Congress, the State Legislative Assembly and the Municipal House of Representatives. $30,000

Gender/Sexuality Rights Association of Taiwan (Taipei, Taiwan) is launching The Project to Promote LGBT Human Rights Agenda.  By mobilizing Taiwan's sexual minorities, GSRAT hopes to reform discriminatory obscenity laws, health ordinances and marriage laws.  In addition to hosting LGBT awareness trainings and workshops for government institutions, they will lobby to incorporate LGBT rights to into Taiwan's newly adopted Basic Human Rights Law.  $35,000 (See profile on page X)

Grupo Lesbico Patlatonalli De Guadalajara (Guadalajara, Mexico) is lobbying the State Commission on Human Rights of Jalisco to enforce public and university policies recognizing LGBT rights and the rights of lesbian families.  Grupo also works to ensure representation of sexual diversity at the InterAmerican Convention for Sexual and Reproductive Rights. $35,000

Kontra (Zagreb, Croatia) is Croatia's preeminent lesbian advocacy organization which has challenged institutionalized homophobia since 1997. Kontra was instrumental in pressuring the Croatian Parliament to issue legislation granting joint health coverage, recognizing shared assets and affirming gay partnerships. Their recently launched LGBT Legal Perspectives Project will work to reform discriminatory family laws, gender equality laws, labor and asylum laws.  $35,000
 
Prensa Editorial LeS VOZ, A.C. (Mexico City, Mexico) publishes a national feminist lesbian cultural magazine and website, and organizes yearly conventions promoting lesbian literature. They also conduct human rights trainings and monitor sexual orientation discrimination in the prison system. http://www.lesvoz.org.mx  $35,000

Sangama (Bangalore, India) is a sexuality resource center focused on improving the rights of those discriminated against because of their sexuality.  Their project, Advocacy for Decriminalizing Homosexuality in Recognition of Sex Change, will petition legal institutions, the judiciary, political parties and special commissions to decriminalize homosexuality and to recognize the rights of hijiras (transsexuals) in India.  $35,000

Triangle Project (Cape Town, South Africa) is an LGBT community development organization which offers HIV prevention workshops, a resource and counseling helpline, and a women's medical clinic. Their groundbreaking Sexual Orientation: Educators Awareness and Empowerment Project helps learning institutions implement a life-skills curricula using nondiscriminatory approaches to sexual orientation and gender identity issues.   $35,000