All around the world, LGBTQI+ people are experiencing the impacts of fundamentalist, conservative, fascist, nationalist, white supremacist, far-right, anti-gender, and anti-rights forces. Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice is proud to announce our latest cycle of International Fund grantee partners with new groups from Kazakhstan, Guatemala, Honduras, and Ukraine. This year so far, we have awarded over $1.2 million to 64 groups in 38 countries. The International Fund supports grassroots groups led by LGBTQI+ communities working for progressive social change, addressing oppression based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression who are also simultaneously advancing the work of racial, economic, and gender justice.
The Astraea Foundation’s International Fund covers six regional portfolios: Africa, Asia & the Pacific, Caribbean, Europe, Caucasus & Central Asia, Latin America; and South West Asia with grantmaking spread across two cycles. Organizations to support in this cycle were selected across four of these regional portfolios: Africa; Europe, Caucasus & Central Asia; Asia & the Pacific; and Latin America.
With the aim of supporting LGBTQI+ rights across the globe, the International Fund selects grassroots LGBTQI+ movements focused on context-specific tactics, cultural change, and liberation. Through flexible, trust-based, and feminist funding principles, the International Fund continues to support lesbians, bisexual and queer women, non-binary and transgender people, intersex people, and allied communities to challenge oppression and claim their human rights.
2023 Cycle A International Fund Grantee Partners*
*Note: We do not publicize a number of our courageous grantee partners because of security threats they face in their local contexts, so organizations may be missing from this list.
Africa:
Artists for Recognition and Acceptance AfRA, Kenya
Elles Cameroon, Carmeroon
Empowered Ladies Initiative for Equality, Kenya
Jinsiangu, Kenya
Ladies’s Voice, Togo
LBQ Education Health and Advocacy, LEHA, Kenya
Lesbian Bisexual Queer Rights Swaziland, Swaziland
Mothers Haven
Parents, Families & Friends of the South African Queers, South Africa
QET Inclusion, Cote d’Ivoire
West African Trans Forum, West Africa
Asia & the Pacific:
Asia Feminist LBQ Network, Regional
Point of View, India
Thai Transgender Alliance (Thai TGA), Thailand
Sompurna, Bangladesh
Europe, Caucasus & Central Asia:
European Sex Worker Alliance, Regional
Feminita, Kazakhstan
Labris Belgrade, Serbia
LBQ Central Asian Network, Central Asia
Lesbian* Resistance, Georgia
LGBIQA Association Okvir, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Ride Side NGO, Armenia
Trans-Fuzja Foundation, Poland
Latin America:
Brújula Intersexual, Mexico
Cattrachas, Honduras
Chola Contravisual, Peru
Diversidades Trans Masculinas, Peru
Mujeres con Capacidad de Soñar a Colores, Guatemala
Taller de Comunicacion Mujer, Ecuador