'All Out' LGBT Rights Campaign Launches With Globe-Trotting Video

All Out, a new organization dedicated to building a movement to accelerate full equality for LGBT people around the world, was announced today.

The group's website explains that "All Out is bringing together people of every identity -- lesbian, gay, straight, transgender and all that's between and beyond -- to build a world in which everyone can live freely and be embraced for who they are."

The goal, All Out writes, is "to change culture -- and policy -- so that LGBT people everywhere can lead lives of dignity and share fully in community life."

To accompany the announcement, the organization produced a short video made in collaboration with activists in over 10 cities on five continents -- from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, Kathmandu to Beirut -- "that seeks to express both the challenges, and common aspirations, shared by a broad and diverse LGBT community around the world."

Among the disconcerting statistics pointed out in the video is the fact that 76 countries around the world treat being LGBT as a crime; and in 10, it is legal grounds for life imprisonment -- or execution.

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The video was edited and produced in partnership with Found Object Films and is translated in multiple languages.

All Out, which will begin campaigning in early 2011, was founded by Jeremy Heimans, founder and CEO of Purpose and co-founder of Avaaz.org and GetUp.org, and Andre Banks, director of strategy at Purpose and former deputy director of ColorofChange.org.
 It is supported by an international advisory board of renowned civil rights organizers, online and offline campaigners, issue experts, policy makers and analysts, and human rights activists from around the world.

Learn more at www.allout.org.

Comments

[SalesmanForLife]

11:11 PM on 12/22/2010

This has me riveted and proud on this fanstastic day in American history. I will join and support anyone anywhere seeking an understanding of what equality means and to obtain it.

[carnitine]

07:26 PM on 12/17/2010

I believe in sovereignty..most countries they don't believe in the LGBT is backed by vast majority of the population. Example I would use is Vietnam forcing the USA to eat dog meat. I find it abhorrent they eat dogs but I wont go into their counterspy and tell them what to do. Now if they are here and try to eat my dog..well good chance they will end up as puppy chow.

[samthor]

01:00 PM on 12/13/2010

Joined. Time to get evolved.

[Jdaddy1951]

12:17 PM on 12/09/2010

Anything that affirms the rights of all people to be treated equally, regardless of sexual orientation, is OK by me.

[antaeus]

08:36 PM on 12/08/2010

The Barcelona guy is hot.

[seventhrama]

07:16 PM on 12/08/2010

I don't mean to rain on any one's parade; but gay rights, issues, or causes are cultural-bound. As there is no single currency or language on the planet, their is no single way of perceiving intimate behaviors between individuals, cross-culturally. I just hope that this efforts does not attempt to duplicate the insane behavior associated with the repealing of DADT legislation. Any attempt to force change upon a cultural, or a group when that cultural, or group does not have the institutions or organizations to support and to promote such change---is a set up for failure, and/or possible harm.

[Bill J4321]

08:09 PM on 12/08/2010

sorry dude.

total barf.

[seventhrama]

08:48 PM on 12/08/2010

"Total barf" is an opinion, which you are entitled. However, I tried to think through mine.

[antaeus]

08:35 PM on 12/08/2010

Your analogies are terrible. Linguistically, all human language is the same. And I can't think of anything less analogous to human sexual orientation than currency markets.

Major fail.

[seventhrama]

09:15 PM on 12/08/2010

If all 6+ billion speaking people on the planet studied the nature, structure, and variation of language, then your opinion would be understandable and we could each understand the other. Sexual orientation is your phrase, not mine; and the reference to currency related to differences between nations/cultures/groups that distinguish them from others nations/cultures/groups. Consequently, if you were offended by my post, I would have given your opinion due deference had you simply stated as much without being snippy in the process.

[carnitine]

02:47 AM on 12/13/2010

No he's a win. Why? It's already shown a lot of cultures don't like gays..I am not even religious and I don't like gays..mainly because of their entitlement attitude and intorlence to other opinions.

[GoodNewsDay]

07:08 PM on 12/08/2010

Appeals court hints at narrow Prop. 8 ruling

The federal appeals court in the Proposition 8 case hinted Monday at a ruling that would allow gays and lesbians to marry in California while leaving other states' laws intact - a restrained approach seemingly designed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Lawyers challenging the 2008 initiative urged the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to uphold a federal judge's ruling in August that Prop. 8 violated the U.S. Constitution because its definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman discriminated on the basis of gender and sexual orientation.

But in a nationally televised, 2 1/2-hour hearing, the three-judge appellate panel seemed intent on framing the case more narrowly before it reaches the Supreme Court.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/06/BATJ1GMLER.DTL#ixzz17ZJAejJJ

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/06/BATJ1GMLER.DTL#ixzz17ZItW4OI

[sillyfrog]

06:35 PM on 12/08/2010

Joined.

[AngryCitizen]

06:30 PM on 12/08/2010

repeal DADT TONIGHT!

[JohnInDallas]

06:29 PM on 12/08/2010

This is both excellent and needed

[ramal]

06:14 PM on 12/08/2010

As we used to shout at ACT UP! (Which will always be the Mother of all Gay rights organizations) actions: "THEY SAY, "GET BACK." WE SAY, "FIGHT BACK!!!!"

[freedom4allau]

05:51 PM on 12/08/2010

Well done!

[ProudToBeVeryLiberal]

05:38 PM on 12/08/2010

Excellent job!