Indonesia
Civic Engagement
A film producer and publicist, John Badalu is working to reverse the cultural trend of discrimination against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans-sexual (LGBT) individuals in Indonesia. Using the incredibly popular medium of film, he is increasing tolerance of diversity and empowering sexual minorities.
Bangladesh
Human Rights
Shale Ahmed is working for the establishment of health and human rights for Bangladesh’s Kothi, transgender, and ‘men who have sex with men’ (MSM) communities. In a country where men with homosexual preferences and/or feminized behavior and dress are considered citizens by neither the public nor the state, Shale and his organization, the Bandhu Social Welfare Society, are providing medical care, advocacy and job training that these...
India
Human Rights
Ashok Row Kavi is providing a formal platform for gays and lesbians–a group left out of mainstream life in socially conservative India–to claim their place in political and social arenas. Ashok encourages gays and lesbians to become proactively involved in public life and institutions through media, advocacy, cooperation and community-building.
Thailand
Health
Fraternity for AIDS Cessation in Thailand (FACT), The White Line Dance Troupe
Natee Teerarojjanapongs is fighting AIDS in Thailand. Using an array of techniques to attack fundamental problems of ignorance and cultural sensitivity, he is getting through to high-risk citizens, especially the tens of thousands of young bar boys and girls. Increasingly, he is also awakening the country as a whole to the crisis.
Pakistan
Health
Tahir is breaking the silence around sexual abuse in Pakistan by linking it to the spread of HIV. Focusing on transvestite prostitutes as key transmitters, he is forcing widespread recognition of the relationship between social taboos around sex and the rise in male-to-male sex and sexual abuse that is fueling the AIDS epidemic.
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