Youth power
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Together with community-based partners around the world, we can create meaningful change for children, young people and communities — from improved education and accessibility to reducing violence, especially against girls.
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Resistir Gozando: Empowering LGBTQIA+ Youth in the Americas
We work with youth-led groups and organizations in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico to create safe spaces where LGBTQIA+ youth can express their identities, strengthen their autonomy, and foster intergenerational solidarity.
Resistir Gozando (Joyful Resistance) is led by GFC in collaboration with youth-led grassroots organizations in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico. This initiative aims to create safe, dignified, and empowering spaces for LGBTQIA+ youth to express their identities, exercise their rights, and build joyful, resilient futures.
GFC’s support for the Resistir Gozando initiative centers on three main pillars:
- Preventing violence and discrimination by providing core funding and flexible capacity-building support to a core group of partner organizations.
- Strengthening youth autonomy and access to rights by launching a regional social media campaign highlighting LGBTQIA+ stories and perspectives.
- Promoting partner collaboration and exchange by organizing a convening and an arts festival to build working relationships within and beyond the core co-design partners.
Through these efforts, Resistir Gozando seeks to amplify the voices of LGBTQIA+ youth, foster intergenerational solidarity, and advance a more inclusive and equitable society.
Project partners
Artemisa Honduras
Valle de Ángeles | Honduras
Artemisa Honduras is a feminist, youth-led organization that empowers girls, adolescents, and young women, including LGBTQI+ youth. It promotes sexual and reproductive rights, gender equality, and social inclusion, fostering leadership and advocating for the rights of diverse young people in Honduras.
Colectivo Seres
Guanajuato | Mexico
Colectivo Seres A.C. is a community-based organization in Guanajuato that works to empower adolescents and youth facing social disadvantages. It promotes sexual and reproductive health, mental wellbeing, gender equality, and human rights through education, workshops, and community engagement, fostering inclusive and equitable communities.
Fundación Culturas Campesinas
Herveo | Colombia
Culturas Campesinas is a youth-led organization that empowers rural communities by promoting local culture and identity through audiovisual storytelling and community engagement. The organization works to transform negative narratives about rural life, highlighting the richness and value of campesino traditions and fostering pride in the territory.
Otros Dreams en Acción
Mexico City | Mexico
Otros Dreams en Acción (ODA) is a community-based organization led by deported and returned migrants in Mexico. It provides support for family reunification, mobility, and dignified return, while also offering legal assistance and creating spaces for cultural expression and healing.
Red de Jóvenes Artistas por la Justicia Social
Quetzaltenango | Guatemala
Red de Jóvenes Artistas por la Justicia Social is a network of young people from different departments in Guatemala who use art as a tool for advocacy and empowerment. Its members organize workshops, festivals, mural initiatives, trainings, debates, and exhibitions to raise awareness about issues that impact youth and to influence public policy and spark dialogue.
Red Popular Trans
Medellín | Colombia
Red Popular Trans is a collective of trans and gender-diverse individuals in Medellín that works to advance trans rights and visibility. The organization organizes advocacy campaigns, community-building activities, and leadership initiatives to empower its members, promote social inclusion, and influence policies that affect trans communities in Colombia.
Gender justice
Creating safe spaces for lesbian and bisexual womxn* and queer* and trans* people in Armenia
Youth power