Arcus Foundation

Stories of Impact

Read real-life stories of how individuals around the world are being affected by the work of Arcus grantees and are themselves helping realize advances in LGBT equality, and creating a more just and humane world.

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1. Anti-Transgender Violence Persists

   More than 20 of 58 countries studied for a 2011 project on transphobic murders had laws that criminalize or lead to prosecution of trans people in some or all situations. The study, by Transgender Europe, also reported 816 killings of trans people in 55 countries between 2008 and 2011.

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2. Reversing Discrimination in Health Care

   A survey of 132 medical schools in the United States and Canada, reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association on September 7, 2011, found that schools spend an average of five hours on LGBT issues.

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3. Visibility Leads to Progress on Trans Rights

   Lee Jimenez lives life beyond the boxes that many people check for hospital registration, tax returns, or online dating. “People don’t understand how I can appear as a woman but don’t identify as a woman,” says Jimenez.

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4. One Year On: 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' Repeal Leaves More Work to Be Done

   More than one year after repeal of the policy that blocked lesbian and gay servicemembers from being open about their sexual orientation in the United States military, we look at the levels of equality achieved so far and what remains to be done.

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5. Ugandan Civil Society Activist Speaks Out on LGBT Rights

   "We live nomadic lives. We move from one house to the other because the neighbors discover we're gay activists or we're gay and then the landlord throws us out." Geoffrey Ogwaro, co-coordinator of the Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law tells us about the struggle for LGBT rights in his home country, Uganda.

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