U.S. Fund
In June, Astraea awarded a total of $30,000 to organizations in three states advancing immigrants rights activism. These grantees are two national, one statewide, and three locally-focused organizations that are engaging a key racial and economic justice movement today. Their work increases the visibility of LGBTQI people in this movement, and pushes the dialogue on immigrant rights past mainstream perspectives to build solidarity within national racial and economic justice movements. Leaders of the coming out of the shadows strategy, these groups uplift the most vulnerable segments of LGBTQI immigrant communities and empower undocumented youth and activists to take great risks with direct action organizing around the DREAM Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, and an end to deportation and criminalization.
Affinity Community Services
Chicago, IL
Arizona Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project (Az-QUIP)
Phoenix, AZ
California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance (CIYJA)
California
Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC)
Los Angeles, CA
TransLatin@ Coalition
National Organization
United We Dream Networks Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project
National Organization
International Funding
This summer and fall, Astraea awarded a total of $369,000 to 46 groups in 30 countries and 39 cities in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Across nations and regions, International Fund grantee partners made incredible strides in the push for recognition of sexual orientation and gender identity rights this year. This includes legal reforms and legislative advances in the areas of access to health, gender identity recognition, de-criminalization of same sex relations and family protections.
Astraea grantee partners are using technology, media, film festivals, and arts and cultural activism to raise awareness, break isolation, resist governmental oppression, and bring communities together. Additionally, many have been successful both regionally and on an international level in leveraging international mechanisms to increase pressure on their governments to protect LGBTQI rights.
Aireana – Grupo por los Derechos de las Lesbianas
Asunción, Paraguay
alQaws for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society
Jerusalem, Israel
Aswat – Palestinian Gay Women
Haifa, Israel
Chinese Lala Alliance
Beijing, China
China Queer Independent Films
Beijing, China
Colectivo de Investigación Acción en Derechos Trans – Comunidad Diversidad
La Paz, Bolivia
Colectivo Sentimos Diverso
Quito, Ecuador
Femme en Action Contre la Stigmatisation el la Discrimination Sexuelle (FACSDIS)
Port au Prince, Haiti
Forum for the Empowerment of Women
Johannesburg, South Africa
Freedom and Roam Uganda (FAR-UG)
Kampala, Uganda
GALANG Philippines, Inc
Quezon City, Philippines
Gayten-LGBT, Center for Promotion of LGBTIQ Human Rights
Belgrade, Serbia
Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudio Formación y Acción Feminista (GLEFAS)
Regional, Latin America and the Caribbean
Grupo Safo
Managua, Nicaragua
Iranti Org
Johannesburg, South Africa
Istanbul LGBTT
Istanbul, Turkey
les+ workshop
Beijing, China
Lesbian Organization Rijeka LORI
Rijeka, Croatia
Lesbianas Independientes Feministas y Socialistas
Lima, Perú
Movimiento de Acción Lésbica Feminista
Aguascalientes, México
Mujeres Al Borde
Bogota, Colombia
Mujeres Y Cultura Subterránea, A.C.
Chimalhuacán, México
Mulabi – Espacio Latinoamericano de Sexualidades y Derechos
Guadalupe, Costa Rica
Nirantar
New Delhi, India
Nutongxueshe (NTXS)
Hong Kong, China
Organización de Transexuales por la Dignidad de la Diversidad (OTD)
Rancagua, Chile
Organización Trans Reinas de la Noche (OTRANS)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Parma
Vadodara, India
Pembe Hayat LGBTT Dayanisma Dernegi
Ankara, Turkey
Queer African Youth Network (QAYN)
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Red Lésbica “CATTRACHAS”
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Rromnjako Ilo
Novi Becej, Serbia
Santamaría Fundación
Cali, Colombia
Sappho for Equality
Kolkata, India
Sarajevo Open Center
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sayoni
Singapore, Singapore
Side by Side LGBT International Film Festival
Saint Petersburg, Russia
SKUC-LL
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)
Georgetown, Guyana
Trans Bantu Association of Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia
Transgender and Intersex Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
Transgender Resource Center
Hong Kong, China
United and Strong
Castries, St. Lucia
Social Change Opportunity Fund
This September, six groups were awarded a total of $300,000 in new multi-year grants through the Social Change Opportunity Fund. This fund supports timely institutional and policy change campaigns in the Global South and East. Through impact litigation, legislative and media advocacy, research and documentation, and community organizing and leadership development, these six grantee partners look to create structural change in their respective countries. Their foci include engaging advocacy to secure national gender identity protections in Chile, South Africa, and Serbia, securing relationship recognition in Colombia, and reducing violence and criminalization in Ecuador and Guyana.
The Society against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD)
Georgetown, Guyana
Colombia Diversa
Bogotá, Colombia
Gayten-LGBT, Center for Promotion of LGBTIQ Human Rights
Belgrade, Serbia
Gender DynamiX
Cape Town, South Africa
Organización Trans Reinas de la Noche (OTRANS)
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Organización de Transexuales por la Dignidad de la Diversidad (OTD)
Rancagua, Chile
Taller de Comunicación Mujer
Quito, Ecuador
Global Arts Fund
In its first year, Astraea’s Global Arts Fund awarded a total of $55,000 to six U.S.-based artists and five artists or collectives in Latin America and China. Our inaugural Global Arts Fund grantees are using art as a tool for social transformation, exploring the theme of migration. From poetry to musical landscapes that trace past and present histories of migration to documentary film and art installations that document the invisible and powerful stories of queer immigrants in the U.S. and around the world, these artists are highlighting experiences of marginalization in the face of exploitations wrought by globalization and neocolonialism.
Taijhet Nyobi Rockett
Oakland, CA
Lesbian Writer’s Fund
Alixa Garcia
Brooklyn, NY
Erika Vivianna Céspedes
Oakland, CA
Maiana Minahal
Honolulu, HI
Jolie Harris
Oakland, CA
DJ Lynnée Denise
Marietta, GA
Ulelli Verbeke
Guyana
Cayetana Salao
Ecuador
Colectiva Siluetas
Guatemala
Dunia Kita
Hong Kong
Comunidad Mujeres Creando Comunidad
Bolivia