JOIN A PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP WITH WITNESS CHANGE! Discover the power of storytelling with Witness Change founder @hammond_robin at our portrait storytelling workshops, cohosted with @vans_europe. 🌍❤️Open to all, these workshops will elevate your portrait photography skills while delving into the Where Love Is Illegal storytelling process. 📚✨Be a part of creating the true story of PRIDE and learn how to capture the essence of love, strength, and resilience through portraits. 🏳️‍🌈📸 Workshops will be held at : 23/06 Paris 24/06 Milan 25/06 Madrid 29/06 London 30/06 London 07/07 Amsterdam 08/07 Cologne 17/07 Barcelona Don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity! Register today at the link in the @whereloveisillegal profile. #PrideMonth #PortraitWorkshop #Storytelling #LGBT #PrideThroughLens #LoveIsLove #Freeworkshop #Photographyworkshop

📍BANGLADESH, DHAKA. Where Love is Illegal is proud to partner with Inclusive Bangladesh ( @dhkpride ), one of over 20 grassroots LGBTQI+ organizations worldwide, hosting a #WhereLoveIsIllegal exhibition this #PrideMonth. Inclusive Bangladesh is a local non-profit and transgender-led youth human rights organisation, currently working in Bangladesh & United Kingdom to advance human rights of LGBTIQ+ people. Dhaka Pride is the only public Pride Event in Bangladesh happening since 2021. Each exhibition is hosted by local queer organizations using the events to support their own advocacy. Through amplifying these stories, we support grassroots activism, fostering change in communities far and wide. 💪❤️ These exhibitions have been created with the help of @vans_europe. For the third year, they are supporting Where Love is Illegal to continue sharing queer stories from around the globe. Their commitment to empowering LGBTQI+ voices and fostering inclusivity has made this global network possible. 🙌🌈 So join us this Pride Month as we celebrate love in all its forms, standing together to support the LGBTQ+ community worldwide.

Where Love is Illegal is proud to partner with @kleinimaging to support over 20 grassroots LGBTQI+ organizations worldwide hosting a #WhereLoveIsIllegal exhibition this #PrideMonth. Klein Imaging is the North West’s leading Fine Art Production House, offering bespoke giclée printing, framing, artwork photography and drop shipping for artists, galleries and art professionals worldwide. Based in Manchester, UK. Each exhibition is hosted by local queer organizations using the events to support their own advocacy. Through amplifying these stories, we support grassroots activism, fostering change in communities far and wide. 💪❤️ These exhibitions have been created with the help of @vans_europe. For the third year, they are supporting Where Love is Illegal to continue sharing queer stories from around the globe. Their commitment to empowering LGBTQI+ voices and fostering inclusivity has made this global network possible. 🙌 🌈 So join us this Pride Month as we celebrate love in all its forms, standing together to support the LGBTQ+ community worldwide.

"Dear Yari and Abdullahi Dass (Prison Warders), You should both know that I will never forgive you in my life for what you have done to me in prison." Gabriel is a gay man from Nigeria. He and his friend were arrested for being gay, in prison he was slapped and beaten with electric cables. He was held for over 40 days."Because of what you both did to me, I hate you so much and will never forgive you. Every time I remember what you did, I feel as if I should leave this world." // Gabriel shared their story with the #WhereLoveIsIllegal campaign, a platform for #LGBTQI+ stories of #discrimination and #survival. At the link in our profile you can read their full story and see how to share your own experience. Photo by @hammond_robin. This is a @witness_change project. For more stories of survival, follow @WhereLoveIsIllegal

"As a child I always felt there was something in me I could not share. ...I would have nightmares. I guess I was in hell or would go to hell because deep down I know I was gay. At that time of my life I didn't even know about being gay." Yvette Cortes is a lesbian from the United States. As a child, her family was strongly Catholic and deeply homophobic. At 20 Yvette married a man and had three children, but always knew there was "something missing". "At 45 I had my first relationship with a younger women then I knew was missing. I was always afraid to come out. I stood in my marriage in fear. But in 94 one of my son past away. I realized how short life could me, so he gave me the courage to be myself and asked my husband for a divorce." // Yvette shared their story with the #WhereLoveIsIllegal campaign, a platform for #LGBTQI+ stories of #discrimination and #survival. At the link in our profile you can read their full story and see how to share your own experience. Photo by @hammond_robin. This is a @witness_change project. For more stories of survival, follow @WhereLoveIsIllegal

“Despite us trampling on our humanity, they cancel our dignity, they braze on our hearts… just because we are gays. Injustice… a word means breaking the wings of the heart and blow up the basics of humanity and it is the biggest fear in our lives.” Gad is a syrian refugee living in Lebanon. He found work in a hammam giving massages…until the police raided. He and 15 others were held for 28 days, beaten and charged with “homosexuaity.” // Gad shared their story with the #WhereLoveIsIllegal campaign, a platform for #LGBTQI+ stories of #discrimination and #survival. At the link in our profile you can read their full story and see how to share your own experience. Photo by @hammond_robin. This is a @witness_change project. For more stories of survival, follow @WhereLoveIsIllegal

"My experience of discrimination started since when I was 12 years old. In the school where I attend all my class mate hate me so much, they don't play with me, each time I go to play with them, they reject me and say they will not play with a girl (referring to me)." Ibrahim (not his real name) is a gay man from Nigeria. Despite living in a region where it is dangerous to be openly gay, and even though he has been the target of many homophobic attacks, Ibrahim refuses to back down. "I am gay and proud to be that, so also Nigerian and a citizen and more importantly a human being who deserve every right." // Ibrahim shared their story with the #WhereLoveIsIllegal campaign, a platform for #LGBTQI+ stories of #discrimination and #survival. At the link in our profile you can read their full story and see how to share your own experience. Photo by @hammond_robin. This is a @witness_change project. For more stories of survival, follow @WhereLoveIsIllegal

"At first they threatened to cut my head off… they would place the knife on my neck and say to me - are you ready to die?” ‘M’ is a gay man from Syria. He was kidnapped and held for ransom. His family paid his release, but later ISIS arrived and they specifically searched for him. M fled Syria for a refugee camp in Lebanon, where he remains optimistic that he can return to Syria. // M shared their story with the #WhereLoveIsIllegal campaign, a platform for #LGBTQI+ stories of #discrimination and #survival. At the link in our profile you can read their full story and see how to share your own experience. Photo by @hammond_robin. This is a @witness_change project. For more stories of survival, follow @WhereLoveIsIllegal

On #IDAHOBIT, we're thrilled to announce that Where Love is Illegal is partnering with over 20 grassroots LGBTQI+ organizations worldwide, hosting exhibitions from Cameroon to Bangladesh, Ethiopia to the USA! 🌍 Each exhibition is hosted by local LGBTQI+ organizations (@dhkpride ; @fundacionigualespanama ; @gala_archive ; @thenature_network ; @ankh.france ; @savieasblngo ; @for_wfw @positivevoicegr ; @qamra.archive ; @sem.alba.et ; @proud.lebanon ; @inishowenpride ; @queerasianpride.ie ; @ostravsky.prajd ; @acastoronto ; @queercitymedia ; @oklahomansforequality) . They are using the exhibits to support their own advocacy. Through amplifying these stories, we support grassroots activism, fostering change in communities far and wide. 💪❤️ These exhibition have been created with t he help of @vans_europe . For the third year they are supporting Where Love is Illegal to continue to sharing queer stories from arround the globe. Their commitment to empowering LGBTQI+ voices and fostering inclusivity has made this global network possible. 🙌🌈 Join us in celebrating the resilience and strength of the #LGBTQI+ community on this IDAHOBIT!

"After I release I face many problems with my relatives and my friends," says Ishmel who was tortured and imprisoned for one month because he is gay. But the greatest emotional blow was delivered by his family on his release: "My parents sent me away from there and said they don't give me shelter again. They abandon me. Some of my relatives yet are not talking to me. Some they even said I am not their brother... I need my parents to give me back the love they showed to me when I was a small boy because I can't live without them... I need their love back." // Ishmel shared their story with the #WhereLoveIsIllegal campaign, a platform for #LGBTQI+ stories of #discrimination and #survival. At the link in our profile you can read their full story and see how to share your own experience. Photo by @hammond_robin. This is a @witness_change project. For more stories of survival, follow @WhereLoveIsIllegal

“We are human, you are human. I am merely a mirror of everything you and a human can be. Do not let that anger you, let that free, heal and Inspire you to live authentically as you,” says Cris, a nonbinary, trans masc, queer person from New Jersey. “Imagine each time going into a rest/locker room not knowing how others will react to you. It’s a lot emotionally and physically when you are just trying to exist.” When he was laughed at, he did not tolerate the ridicule, “I firmly advocated for myself, my community and put that person in their place.” He advises people to check on their trans friends during these hard times. “To my siblings, let’s continue to exist like we always have and always will. We deserve love and space like everyone else! We are enough. We are key that the world needs to heal and grow.” // Cris (@cris__x3 ) shared their story with the #WhereLoveIsIllegal campaign, a platform for #LGBTQI+ stories of #discrimination and #survival. At the link in our profile you can read their full story and see how to share your own experience. This is a @witness_change project. For more stories of survival, follow @WhereLoveIsIllegal

"If a person misgenders me, they aren't seeing me, and that's irritating. I don't like to not be seen. I don't like assumptions to be made about me based on what somebody thinks my genitals are. Spirit is a pansexual, transgender, gender expansive person from New Orleans, USA. Spirit sees their journey as still changing, and they have a different relationship to their gender identity or sexual orientation based on their lived experiences. "The first time I bought 'man shoes' I was terrified to wear them, I think they're the light blue bowling shoes I have; the first time someone asked me what my pronouns were, I think it might have been @ a BreakOUT! event. I'm trying to recall how I got to Spirit & the first time I referred to myself as Spirit & asked others to do the same; this journey is a constant exploration and uncovering." // Spirit shared their story with the #WhereLoveIsIllegal campaign, a platform for #LGBTQI+ stories of #discrimination and #survival. At the link in our profile you can read their full story and see how to share your own experience. Photo by @hammond_robin. This is a @witness_change project. For more stories of survival, follow @WhereLoveIsIllegal