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Legal & Human Rights Advisor | Community Services Manager | Project Manager
Rainbow Fellowship Global Network (RFGN) is a LGBT Social Network & LGBT Support Network for everyone. Our aim is to provide LGBT people with a network where they can find support, love, acceptance, freedom and happiness in life. Our missions are to stop homophobia in the world and promote the quality of life of LGBT…
Read MoreRFGN | Community Services Manager | Legal & Human Rights Advisor | Project Manager | Shabnaz
Hi,I am the Legal & Human Rights Advisor and a Community Services Manager at RFGN. As a human rights lawyer, I believe that every individual human being is entitled to the protection of their human rights and dignity irrespective of sexual orientation. However, the members of the LGBTQ+ community have been deprived of their…
Read MoreRFGN | How to stand together against Homophobia
In many cultures, being anything other than heterosexual is looked down on because it goes against their morals. The traditionalist approach to life has narrowed down their vision, and they are unable to accept people who are different. That is the same case for identities other than sexuality, such as race or ethnicity. Rainbow Fellowship…
Read MoreRFGN | LGBT | Freedom to love
LGBT+ community all over the world There should be no need to specify LGBT+ rights if we were respecting human rights. LGBT+ information We live in interesting times – on one hand, the famous gay, Queer Rights Activist and probably the most popular Drag Queen of the World – RuPaul Charles makes its…
Read MoreRFGN | PRIDE PARADE: OUR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT
Pride Parade is an event celebrated by the members of our community including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non-binary, and queer (L.G.T.Q). The pride parades are also known as pride marches, pride events, and pride festivals. At Rainbow Fellowship we believe that pride parade is an exercise of the right guaranteed by human rights instruments…
Read MoreRFGN | OUR SLOGAN IS LOVE
“Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven matters?” This is a very powerful quote of James Baldwin, which he wrote in his iconic novel Giovanni’s Room. The statement of James Baldwin is a representation of members of our community. At Rainbow Fellowship, we believe in love and positivity.…
Read MoreRFGN | ALL WE WANT IS EQUALITY
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and numerous other international human rights instruments have embodied the principle of equality between human beings. All legislative instruments prohibit discrimination on the basis of color, gender, and sexual orientation. Therefore, every individual…
Read MoreRFGN | LGBT Discrimination Around the World
While the state of the world for those in the LGBT community has improved greatly compared to the past, it is evident that there remains a problematic amount of discrimination occurring worldwide. Prejudice against gay dating, lackluster LGBT support, queer discrimination and more wreak havoc on LGBT individuals’ mental health every day, causing low self-esteem,…
Read MoreRFGN | How to Prevent Homophobia in the World and Improve Quality of Life of LGBT People
2021 will mark a full decade since the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, and only six years since global superpower, the United States, passed the same law. Despite the incredible advances that have been made for the LGBT community over the years, it is apparent that there is…
Read MoreRFGN | Community Services Officer | Aayushi Singh
About Aayushi Singh, I’m working as a research scholar in India as well as volunteering as a Community Services Officer at RFGN. I love to read and discuss about ideas. Currently I’m working on a project related to LGBT and my vision is to normalize this community. Please feel free to speak to me. It…
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