South East Asia : Poedjiati Tan has been working on homosexual issue and gender. She also actively give counseling to lesbian teenager in her home town and becomes a keynote speaker in lesbian topic area in Several School and University. She also a Secretary General of GAYa Nusantara (LGBTIQ NGO). She has a Master Psychology and publish a book base on her research about lesbian parents.
King Oey is one of the founders of Arus Pelangi, an LGBT organization based in Jakarta, which was established in 2006 to advocate LGBT rights in Indonesia. He sits in the Supervisory Board to provide guidance to this new organization. As a consultant in capacity building he provides advices in the field of management and organisational development to many Indonesian NGOs, especially human rights NGOs. He also serves as the international relations officer for Arus Pelangi.
South Asia : SAHRAN ABEYSUNDARA is an interior designer by profession but his passion of Equal Rights led him to be one of the co founders of EQUAL GROUND in Sri Lanka, A human rights based organization working towards equal rights for the LGBTIQ community of Sri Lanka. He now currently lives in the UK and is even more vocal on issues of equality and decriminalization than ever before. His international activism on LGBT Rights issues in Asia have led to him holding posts as regional director for ASIA on the World Board of INTERPRIDE, special advisor to the board of PRIDE LONDON for World Pride, Grand Marshal for Vancouver Pride and currently sits on the World Board of ILGA. 5th th h IILGA LG GA AS A ASIA SIA AR Regional egiona al Conference
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