Mongolia Pride
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During this summer of Pride, we mustn’t forget the many who are still fighting for the inalienable right to embody their true selves and to love freely.
2019 MONGOLIA PRIDE
Mongolia’s 7th Annual Pride and Queer Film Festival is to be held on the streets of Ulaanbaatar from August 24-September 1, 2019. This year commemorates the 10-year anniversary of the formation of the LGBT Centre—a major milestone of the Mongolian movement.
This movement is not the offspring of the inevitable globalism sweeping through the steppe, but in truth, transcends it. As a traditionally Buddhist and Shamanistic society, Mongolia never adhered to a system of dogmatic rule. Lives revolved around nature and spirit. The love of freedom and connection to natural cycles created a society that was sexually open.
Soviet laws in the 20th century introduced homophobic rhetoric, ideology and legislation, placing emphasis on the nuclear family with its accompanying heteronormative restrictiveness. After the fall of the Soviet Union, of which Mongolia was a satellite, homosexuality was decriminalized. Westernization through the 90s and 2000s helped facilitate the fight for gay and trans rights in UB, but also perpetuated homophobic and transphobic stereotypes, creating the concept that LGBTQI identities and agendas are foreign imports.
THE LGBT CENTRE - MONGOLIA
The Mongolian LGBT Centre was founded in 2007 and officially registered in 2009 after a three-year battle, a time when queerness was unacceptable in the public consciousness—considered by many to be an import from the West. Though being LGBTQI+ is not illegal, it is taboo, even dangerous. So much of the violence happens between family and friends within Ulaanbaatar’s interconnected community. Many have been granted refugee status.
Before the Centre was recognized and registered as an NGO, other incarnations of organizations strove to connect and protect sexual minorities, mainly focusing on the health of gay men and male-bodied individuals. The Mongolian LGBT Centre is the first and only human rights organization that is inclusive for all of Mongolia’s sexual minorities.
GOAL
The Equality & Pride Days events and film festival, together, are estimated to cost $15,000. If more money is collected than the goal, the remaining will go directly to the Mongolian LGBT Centre for their own programming and survival—an organization that depends largely on foreign grants.
On the journey toward soulful authenticity and connection, we must remember that no one is free until we are all free.
2019 MONGOLIA PRIDE
Mongolia’s 7th Annual Pride and Queer Film Festival is to be held on the streets of Ulaanbaatar from August 24-September 1, 2019. This year commemorates the 10-year anniversary of the formation of the LGBT Centre—a major milestone of the Mongolian movement.
This movement is not the offspring of the inevitable globalism sweeping through the steppe, but in truth, transcends it. As a traditionally Buddhist and Shamanistic society, Mongolia never adhered to a system of dogmatic rule. Lives revolved around nature and spirit. The love of freedom and connection to natural cycles created a society that was sexually open.
Soviet laws in the 20th century introduced homophobic rhetoric, ideology and legislation, placing emphasis on the nuclear family with its accompanying heteronormative restrictiveness. After the fall of the Soviet Union, of which Mongolia was a satellite, homosexuality was decriminalized. Westernization through the 90s and 2000s helped facilitate the fight for gay and trans rights in UB, but also perpetuated homophobic and transphobic stereotypes, creating the concept that LGBTQI identities and agendas are foreign imports.
THE LGBT CENTRE - MONGOLIA
The Mongolian LGBT Centre was founded in 2007 and officially registered in 2009 after a three-year battle, a time when queerness was unacceptable in the public consciousness—considered by many to be an import from the West. Though being LGBTQI+ is not illegal, it is taboo, even dangerous. So much of the violence happens between family and friends within Ulaanbaatar’s interconnected community. Many have been granted refugee status.
Before the Centre was recognized and registered as an NGO, other incarnations of organizations strove to connect and protect sexual minorities, mainly focusing on the health of gay men and male-bodied individuals. The Mongolian LGBT Centre is the first and only human rights organization that is inclusive for all of Mongolia’s sexual minorities.
GOAL
The Equality & Pride Days events and film festival, together, are estimated to cost $15,000. If more money is collected than the goal, the remaining will go directly to the Mongolian LGBT Centre for their own programming and survival—an organization that depends largely on foreign grants.
On the journey toward soulful authenticity and connection, we must remember that no one is free until we are all free.
Co-organizers (7)
Brandt Nathaniel Miller
Organizer
Enkhmaa Enkhbold
Co-organizer
Aubrey Menarndt
Co-organizer
Munkhtuya Dashtsend
Co-organizer
Altangerel Baldangombo
Co-organizer