Queering the COSP: an intersectional and inclusive perspective:
LGBTI persons with disabilities and their rights

Online side event to the UN Conference of States Parties on the CRPD

Date and time: Monday 30 November 30 (8:30am - 9:45am EST)
Register for the Zoom event here
Interpretation: English, Spanish, International Sign Language, and Mexican Sign Language

In all corners of the world LGBTI persons with disabilities experience discrimination and exclusion not only based on their SOGIESC, but also on the basis of their disabilities. Moreover, other non-exhaustive layers of diversity such as gender, ethnicity, race, age, human rights activism, migration and economic status also determine the extent to which LGBTI persons with disabilities can enjoy and exercise their human rights.

CREA, ILGA World, OutRight, REDI, Women Enabled International and the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations are bringing this conversation to the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD (COSP), acknowledging the groundbreaking role the activists at the intersection of queer and disability rights are making around the world. They challenge the inaccessibility of queer spaces, homotransphobia within disability movements, and reframe the advocacy spaces. In this panel we will hear from LGBTI persons with disabilities and their organisations and learn about how they are working, their tactics and their advocacy priorities.

Date and time: Monday 30 November 30 (8:30am - 9:45am EST)
Register for the Zoom event here
Interpretation: English, Spanish, International Sign Language, and Mexican Sign Language