Announcement before May 17:

The team at the LGBT Centre Mongolia has announced that they were working on showcasing a multimedia exhibition on youth activism and art+activism=artivism for LGBT rights on 17 May 2015. The exhibition will show the videos of the Centre’s youth leaders and volunteers, three all in all, a video of the performance art piece “Love Bus”, plus the paintings and other artworks around SOGIE issues.

Additionally, they also hope to be able to launch a campaign “Human. Equal” that will target the wider public to end discriminatory mentality against LGBT people.

Details about the campaign and its progress will come soon!

Love Bus – LGBT Centre Mongolia

The LGBT Centre in Mongolia was founded in 2007 and is the first LGBT human rights organisation of Mongolia. Its mission is to “uphold, protect, and promote the human rights of sexuality minorities, namely lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered persons” and “to promote the correct understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity within Mongolian society.” The centre is located in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia.
Follow up on their activities and news here.

To celebrate the IDAHOT 2014, the LGBT Centre of Mongolia organized a competition amongst painters and photographers, to encourage creative expression around questions of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.

Participants created 7 paintings and 1 photographic works. These works were displayed at the Bliss Art Restaurant from 17 May to 24 May. The launch of the exhibition, which took place on May 17, also screened 3 short movies distributed by Frameline – “Junk Box Warrior,” “Perceptions”, and “El Abuelo” – presented with Mongolian subtitles. The submissions identified 4 works which focused on freedom of expression on sexual orientation and gender identity in Mongolia.

The winning artworks were rewarded with 500,000MNT, 400,000MNT and 300,000MNT for the first, second and third place, respectively.

The artworks received for the exhibition will be again showcased during Pride Mongolia events in September 2014 and they will also be auctioned off at the end of 2014 in an effort of fundraising for the Centre’s activities.

Artworks created in Mongolian IDAHOT exhibition

The exhibition acted as a pioneering initiative in engaging Mongolia’s artistic communities to join the fight for LGBT rights, and is planned to now become an ongoing initiative. The Centre will consistently collect LGBT-themed artistic works and promote the artists through The Centre’s website and Facebook pages. 

The LGBT Centre of Mongolia is organising the 4th IDAHO in Mongolia to promote the artistic freedom of expression around SOGIE issues through a competition among visual artists.
The Centre will launch a week-long exhibition of paintings and photography works on the freedom of expression and SOGIE on 17 May in the Bliss Art Restaurant. To promote IDAHO as well as artistic freedom of expression, the Centre will have an open-mike hours as well as FtF (Female to Femme) documentary screening, courtesy Frameline.
More about the organization and other events can be found on their page.

A total of 25 people submitted essays on the topic “How could young people participate in making the learning environment of the sexual minorities of Mongolia more enabling?”

About 50 people gathered for the ceremony, including representatives of UN agencies and civil society.