The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is extremely significant on the LGBTQIA+ community. That presented us with a dilemma. Will we look for new organizations to support? Or do we once again support the organizations of recent years? At the beginning of this year, the board – as in previous years – started looking for […]

This year, we are supporting an unregisterered LGBT group in Central Asia. For safety reasons, we cannot name the group nor the country. Homosexuality is criminalized in this country, the state condemns homosexuality in general and supports homophobic attitudes in society. Active prosecution is taking place. The group we support has to work underground and […]

Rainbow Family Support Alliance (RFSA-Uganda) is an NGO fighting discrimination and violence of LGBT people in their families and render support to LGBT victims of family violence and banishment. The organisation was founded by a gay man who was a victim of family violence and banishment because of his sexual orientation, and he decided to […]

Right Side NGO in Armenia runs the only community center and safe space for the trans community in Armenia. Armenia is a conservative, homophobic and transphobic country in the Caucasus, a region located at the border of Europe and Asia, situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. In Armenia, life is tough for LGBTI […]

Rasan Foundation has been active in Iraq for 14 years, working on improving the acceptance of LGBTI’s. They work in extremely dangerous situations, in a country where the language literally does not have words like ‘lesbian’, or ‘gay’. In 2018, Give a Damn is supporting Rasan to improve the safety of LGBTI’s in Iraq. In […]

TransFuzia has been changing lives for transgender and intersex people in Slovakia since 2010. They are a refuge for individuals, setting up support groups and working to change the medical care and the legal situation. There is still much improvement needed for transgender and intersex people in Slovakia. Despite the fact that transgender people can change […]

A man being arrested for drinking a glass of Baileys?? Sound strange? In Cameroon, this is a real possibility; many consider Baileys a drink for women only, so if you are drinking it and you are male, you must be gay. And being gay is prohibited by law. Offenders risk five years imprisonment and heavy […]

LGBTI people in Russia have a difficult life, and LGBTI families even more so. The Anti Propaganda Law prohibits ‘propaganda of non-traditional relationships’ among the youth. In daily life, this means that even talking about LGBTI issues in front of young people, or carrying LGBTI symbols like a rainbow flag, are punishable. Having and/or raising […]

Baltic Pride took place in Lithuania on the 18th of June 2016. Gay Pride in Amsterdam is just another great event in the annual calendar of the city; in the Baltic States this is most certainly not the case. Advertising for the event is defaced and removed; the March for Equality has been repeatedly disrupted for the past few […]

There we are, in the center of Vilnius. The audience in the shopping street slowly turns pink, the crowd around us is growing steadily. The atmosphere is slightly tense, but optimism prevails. Balloons with the text We are Orlando are handed out, as are rainbow flags. Banners are unfurled, music swells. Vilnius is getting ready […]