Lgbtq climate justice
Queering Climate Justice
Exploring the disproportionate climate impacts on—and climate leadership of—the LGBTQ2S+ (Lesbian, Same-sex attracted, Bisexual, Trans, Gender non-conforming, Two-Spirit) community
6 Queer Climate Organizations Primary The Way | Climate Reality Project
Learn about and get linked to organizations operational at the intersections of LGBTQ2S+ and climate justice. Published June 11, 2021
Why Queer Liberation Is an Environmental Justice Issue | EarthJustice
“Once we stop seeing these fights for humanity as separate, we open ourselves up to the possibility of learning from each other in deeper ways.” Author: Lisa Pradhan, published June 11, 2021
What the Queer People Brings to the Fight for Climate Justice | Grist
“Queer and trans people are on the frontlines, and their wisdom is essential to a growing, diverse movement.” Authors: Aletta Brady, Anthony Torres, & Phillip Brown, published April 9, 2019
The Next Generation of Climate Activists Is Queer | them
“Looking to our local queer organizers, local organizers of hue, local disabled organizers, and others for leadership on this issue will be the way to participate a
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Taking place in June each year, Celebration Month is dedicated to celebrating LGBTQIA+ Pride, whilst recognising and honouring those who were involved in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. During this month, we feel it is particularly important to recognise that without LGBTQIA+ justice, there is no climate justice.
While Pride events take place all over the planet to celebrate LGBTQIA+ rights and inclusivity, at its root, the fundamental reason that Pride exists is because this community is still fighting for its survival, and still standing up against violent behaviours and emotional and physical abuse. While the people has come a prolonged way in fighting for equal rights, the justice for LGBTQIA+ people in the climate sphere is lacking.
Although climate change does, and will continue to, affect everyone, it does not affect all groups equally. With climate transform comes inequality, and the IPCC reportedthat those who already face marginalisation are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate modify. While still fighting for acceptance in today’s world, this charismatic and inclusive community remains a socially vulnerable group, and a
Today, Canada and the world—and especially 2SLGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities—face a growing, generational climate emergency. Climate change is a force-multiplier for long-standing inequalities. Without bold action across community, cascading climate shocks and stresses will threaten hard-won progress and push our communities further to the margins. This report is a call for 2SLGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities to build community resilience and demand justice in a changing world. It is based on preliminary conversations with local partners, peers, and experts across North America, and preliminary research on climate impacts and resilience work happening around the world.
We provisionally define “resilience” as building strong, well-resourced, and just communities that can thrive amidst rapid change. The greatest risks in a changing climate come not from extreme weather but from isolation, disempowerment, and the choices of institutions and policymakers to maintain deep inequalities that craft people’s lives more and more precarious. Marginalized people have long built joyful communities and networks of care amid crises, while insisting no one be left to fend
LGBTQ & climate justice with Eddy Quekett
Happy Lgbtq+ fest Month! As a communications agency focused on the environment and diverse voice, we are highlighting memorable Change Makers who are advocating for our space body. With June being Identity Month, we are featuring a passionate climate activist and sustainability leader who is challenging traditional norms and building inclusivity for members of the LGBTQIA2S+ community within the climate movement.
The climate crisis is affecting all of us, but, like other underrepresented groups, the LGBTQIA2S+ collective is disproportionately impacted. We were pleased to connect and interview Eddy Quekett, who recently ran a training workshop on Transgender Climate Justice with the Greenhouse team. Their awareness and advocacy experience on intersectional environmentalism, particularly for LGBTQ and climate justice and trans liberation are building towards a climate-safe future that is inclusive for all.
I’m Eddy Quekett (they/them), a queer climate justice activist and digital campaigner based in Leeds. My work focuses on building understanding and solidarity between movements working towards collective liberation, with a particular f
Climate Change and LGBTQ Rights
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In recent years there has been increased recognition that the climate emergency will have a disproportionate impact on minorities. We contain seen an acknowledgement that climate switch will have a gendered impact, a focus on the danger climate modify poses to small-island states and greater emphasis placed on climate justice as a tool for ensuring equitable climate policy. One aspect of the climate response that has remained somewhat under examined is the effect of climate change on the LGBTQ community. This article aims to briefly sketch out some current and potential future impacts of the climate emergency on the LGBTQ community to offer a gay lens into an otherwise heteronormative consciousness of the emergency.
Rights Backlash
One of the greatest impacts that the climate emergency is likely to have on the LGBTQ community is the potential deterioration or further exacerbation of the human rights conditions in climate vulnerable countries. The c