Dear Luc,
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"I love that All Out is all about love, self worth
and human rights. I love that
I found a way to help a lot of people, since
before, I felt very small. I love
that All Out brought to me the hope for
a new tomorrow." - Martina, All
Out member in Brazil
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Sometimes simple actions unexpectedly lead to our proudest moments.
I definitely had no idea that chipping in a few hours a few years ago would lead
me to you and the big, crazy dream of All Out.
By signing, sharing and donating, you’re winning stunning victories for
love to help real people. You're helping Xiao Zhen fight gay 'cures' in China.
You're stopping the UK from sending lesbians like Aderonke back to danger in
Nigeria.
When most people hear of someone being attacked because of who they are
or who they love, they don't sacrifice a few minutes to help. But you're
different, Luc. Your generosity has the power to save lives.
To keep it going, I need your help in one more way now. If you can, will you
be one of just 3,000 All Out members to sign up as All Out 'sustainers'
with a small, monthly donation by December 31?
It may not sound like much, but if we hit the goal, All Out members like you
will be amongst the most powerful donors for global equality. That’s not
just Euros, pounds or dollars – that's bad laws struck down. That’s safer
families. That’s more love in the world.
Sign up now to be one of the proud, strong-hearted people who will
superpower this movement next year:
We've won some amazing victories in 2014. But it's also been a difficult year.
I've watched as countries like Uganda, the Gambia, Kyrgyzstan and others
have introduced anti-gay laws. It breaks my heart to see millions of people
living in fear for their lives just for being who they are.
All Out is the only member-funded global movement for equality.
That means we can take on the hard campaigns that do the most good,
if we all think it's important and commit to help out in whatever way each of
us can.
All Out has just 12 staff across the world, using technology to mobilise
millions at critical moments. That makes us super efficient – no layers of
bureaucracy means your donation will go a very long way.
All Out's getting bigger every day. Our dreams are big too – a world where
no one has to sacrifice their family, freedom, safety or dignity because of who
they are or who they love.
But to make it happen, the All Out office team needs to still be here –
monitoring the news, reaching out to partner organisations across the world,
and writing calls to action that unleash the power of this amazing community
Making a monthly donation is an incredibly powerful action. Already there
are 1,830 All Out members signed up as sustainers, creating the core funding
All Out relies on every month to run our campaigns and plan ahead.
Sustainers all have a few things in common. If this sounds like you,
consider signing up too:
- You're global in your compassion: you want to help people, even
- if they're halfway around the world, because
- you think no one should have to live in fear just because of who they love.
- You're forward-thinking and proactive: you don't just wait for an
- emergency to help out. You're committed to building a strong, resourced
- movement that's ready to stop new anti-gay laws or violent attacks on
- lesbian, gay, bi and trans people before they happen.
- You're able to step up for those who can't: you know that All Out
- members come from every country in the world – from Russia, to Uganda,
- to Brazil to Japan to France and beyond – and from every walk of life.
- That means that for many, it's financially impossible or even dangerous to
- donate to support equality. But you see many helping out in other ways
- andyou're ready to donate in their place.
- You know a bargain when you see one: you know that saving
- someone's life or keeping a loving family together is worth a few dollars,
- Euros or pounds each month – and that when you donate to All Out, the
- tiny staff team and hugely powerful tools are able to make each cent go a
- long way.
Thank you for being a part of this big crazy dream.
Andre Banks,
Executive Director
P.S. Just in case you're mulling it over, here's 8 more reasons to become
an All Out sustainer:
Reason 1 - What we do works
All Out helps us make action count. The office team brings all 2.1 million of
us the latest news on what's happening around the world. We consult local
activists and experts, then plan the quickest, best ways we can all join in
to help change things. Lots of us subscribe to great internet services like
Spotify and Netflix for a few dollars, pounds or euros a month.
Become an All Out sustainer – give a small, regular donation for love and
equality.
"I love the fact that All Out is standing up for LGBT rights everywhere."
- Amer, All Out member in Lebanon
Reason 2 - What we're building is beautiful and world-changing
All Out is much more than just an online platform. We're building a huge
and powerful community that fights to change a world where people are
locked up for who they love, or are frightened to go on a date because
thugs could be waiting. Our growing power comes from all of us working
together. That's the only way to build the world we want to see.
Click to donate.
"The thing I love about All Out is that together we can make a difference
and make other people realize everyone deserves to love and to be loved,
no matter what sexual orientation they are." - Natalia, Poland
Reason 3 - We're fiscally responsible and audited annually
We know that making a donation is an act of hope and trust. Every
member of the All Out team is personally committed to making every
donation go as far as it can, every single penny used for good. For extra
reassurance, All Out is audited annually to ensure we meet our obligations
as a US-registered non-profit. And every year we've returned a clean
financial bill of health.
Reason 4 - An All Out donation is an investment with permanent
returns for love and equalityDonations to All Out fund high impact
campaigns that also bring in more people as All Out members. More people
mean more donations, and more impact. So your donation doesn't just
help one campaign or action, it helps grow an ever-expanding community
that will multiply your donation many times over.
Click here to become an All Out sustainer
"I love All Out because I'm finally feeling normal and that we're all
the same. It's good to know that I'm not alone!" Sima, All Out member
in Iran
Reason 5 - We have an outstanding, super-dedicated team
It's not easy to do campaigning and social change effectively. It takes
real brains, guts and the ability to listen as well as talk. Everyone on
the global All Out team is there because they are proven, outstanding
campaigners. They've started
businesses, worked in the public and private sectors, and have an
impressive track record of key victories standing up for other causes
like the environment, women's rights and racial justice.
Reason 6 - All Out is extraordinary value for money
We keep our costs super low so that we can maximize the impact of
every donation. We know that every penny counts, so we keep our
team and overhead as low as we possibly can. We rent desks from
other organisations, so there's no million-dollar building or fancy perks
and there are no layers of bureaucracy to eat up resources.
Reason 7 - There's no other organisation like All Out
All Out is unique in what we're trying to do and how we're trying to do it.
We want to build a world where no one has to sacrifice their family or
freedom because of who they are or who they love. We're harnessing
the collective power of millions to do it: our time, our ideas, a few of
our dollars, our belief in the power of people and love to overcome
hatred and fear.
"You ARE love. You're working towards the right to love anyone and
to be equal - it shouldn't matter where anyone's from. And I have a
feeling all of you have huge hearts. Love you guys." Anna, Sweden
Reason 8 - We've achieved a lot together and we want to do
twice as much in 2015
How we got the IOC to change the rules in 2013 and 2014:
- We teamed up with brave activists in Russia, and collaborated
- with partners like Athlete Ally and Human Rights Watch to run
- the smartest, biggest campaign possible.
- More than 50 of us delivered a 300,000 strong petition to the
- International Olympic Committee (IOC). For the first time in its
- history, the IOC publicly stated that Principle 6 in the Olympic charter
- prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. We got 50 Olympic
- champions to join our Principle 6 campaign to say no to homophobia.
- To get the message global, All Out members and people everywhere
- showed support by buying Principle 6 gear created by American Apparel.
- Celebrities like Rihanna, Mark Ruffalo, and Zachary Quinto wore P6 gear
- on social media. Love and equality became the name of the Games.
- More than 150,000 All Out members emailed Coca-Cola's CEO urging
- the company to denounce the anti-gay laws. We also funded massive
- billboards on wheels to swarm Coca-Cola HQ with a powerful message:
- "Coca-Cola, speak out now."
- We whipped up a media storm : we didn't get Coca-Cola to move but
- three National Olympic sponsors publicly denounced the anti-gay laws.
- The language of our campaigns was used in major media outlets and
- was even adopted by people like UK Prime Minister David Cameron
- and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon during his opening remarks
- at the Sochi Olympics.
- In September this year, the IOC announced that Principle 6 of the
- Olympic Charter prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation.
- Last week, they voted to include 'sexual orientation' in the charter,
- explicitly granting protection to all lesbian, gay and bisexual athletes
"Organisations like All Out help to fight for the important issues. Without
projects like these, the issues wouldn't get enough necessary attention.
Without them, things would very likely get progressively worse, and that
must not happen. All Out fights. That's what I love about it." - Olga All Out
member in Russia
Other amazing things we did:
- March 2014: 'Red Pepper' is a Ugandan tabloid famous for 'outing'
- gay, lesbian and trans people. When we realised that French telecoms
- giant Orange was buying ads from them, we took action. 80,000 of
- us signed a petition asking them to pull their advertising from the paper
- – and we won! They agreed to stop their contract.
- April 2014: Aderonke was arrested, tortured, and sentenced to death
- in Nigeria when it was discovered she was a lesbian. She fled to safety
- in the UK, but she went through a humiliating interrogation by UK
- officials who didn't believe her. More than 230,000 of us created a
- massive outcry to convince the Home Office to halt these unfair
- deportations until their process is inclusive for gay, lesbian and
- trans asylum seekers. Aderonke is still in the UK, fighting for all
- asylum-seekers.
- May 2014: Do you remember Lou Engle? He's an a scary anti-gay
- religious leader: he even supported Uganda's brutal 'Kill the Gays'
- bill. So when he tried to go to Geneva, Switzerland on a tour to
- raise support for his anti-gay campaign, 70 000 of us spoke out.
- The Mayor of Geneva joined the mobilization and the conference
- that was hosting him dropped him. We won!
- June 2014: 7,000 of us signed an urgent petition to Paraguay's
- President urging him to sign an OAS resolution that would help
- protect gay, lesbian, bi and trans people. Our partners in
- Paraguay, SOMOSGAY, organised a street protest that was
- violently attacked by the police, catching huge media attention.
- We delivered our signatures just before the vote – and won!
- The President announced he would sign the resolution.
- July 2014: After Uganda's anti-gay law was struck down, we
- helped the Ugandans celebrate – big time! We secretly helped
- fund a big and beautiful pride parade. Then, almost 3,000 of us
- chipped in to fund a tabloid in Uganda, that's being distributed
- around the country, telling the real, inspiring, and heartbreaking
- stories of the lesbian, gay, bi and trans people who live there – or
- have fled.
- October 2014: When an anti-gay group called 'La Manif Pour Tous'
- started attacking families in France, All Out members showed up.
- 260,000 of us signed a petition asking politicians to denounce their
- views. Thousands of us came together in a huge family reunion,
- showing our love was stronger.
- November 2014: Officials in Buenos Aires were threatening that
- they would not provide security for the city's Pride Parade. But
- after more than 10,000 of us came together and signed a petition,
- city officials decided to provide security and safety for this important
- event.
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