The Silver Lining Foundation - Addressing Violence and LGBT Youth Support in Trinidad and Tobago

‘Boy Erased’ and ConvertHurt

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Brandon Kalyan

We thank you for the support of our community screening ‘Boy Erased’ and the launch of our #ConvertHurt: Ending “Conversion Therapy” campaign. “Conversion Therapy,” sometimes known as “reparative therapy,” is a range of dangerous and discredited practices that falsely claim to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. Part of the campaign premiered the local biographical documentary of Jessica Joseph and her experience with this unique form of persecution. The documentary is funded by our partners at…

BHC Anti-Bullying Awareness Competition & Prize Ceremony

Posted on July 5, 2019 by Brandon Kalyan

Mr Tim Stew British High Commissioner to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (@ukincaribbean) hosted the closing ceremony of the Mitigating School Violence and Indiscipline project. The event honoured the teachers of the 3rd & 4th cycle of our Safer Schools: Teacher Training workshop as well presented the 1st place prize of our anti-violence awareness competition to Williamsville Secondary School. Special mention to our partners at ASPnet Trinidad and Tobago for their invaluable in-kind support. ✍+📷: @brandonkalyan📹: Tahira Adams BHC…

Eager for Easter 2019

Posted on April 21, 2019 by Brandon Kalyan

Today we continued a tradition that we started last year; flying our rainbow kite high, a symbol of our #LGBTI #pride. #Inclusivity and #visibility in cultural spaces, like on the Savannah grass for Easter, is integral to shifting the socio-cultural paradigms around LGBTI rights. We celebrate our rights to exist as queer Caribbean people, our right to integrate, our right to love..With Easter comes renewal, life, rebirth and hopes for brighter days..The Radio 90.5 FM’s 20th Annual Easter Kite Flying…

Feeling Myself Project

Posted on April 18, 2019 by Brandon Kalyan

@feelingmyselfproject facilitated by Dominique Friday designed a workshop aimed towards building young people’s sense of identity, confidence and self-worth using creative arts. The participants would ultimately work together to produce a concert titled Soul Spectrum that expresses their journey and outcomes gained through the experience.…

Black Queer World Building

Posted on February 24, 2019 by Brandon Kalyan

Artivist @jacobvjoyce left an open invitation to members of the Black queer diaspora to predict a new version of the future, one that is in alignment to their queer joy, freedom, rest and healing. The project titled Black Queer World Building aims to include the Caribbean in outlining and celebrating the interconnected struggle against colonial legacies of homophobia in Africa and its diaspora. Through the power of speculative fictions and afro-futurist writers like Octavia Butler who forecasts her own future…

BHC Sponsors 3rd Safer Classrooms Workshop

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Brandon Kalyan

The third cycle of our Teacher Training Workshop sponsored by the British High Commission, Port of Spain (@ukincaribbean) aims to foster safer classrooms. The main intent is to build capacity for teachers on mitigating enabling conditions for bullying and classroom-based indiscipline. SLF sought to address bullying and violence within the framework of sexual diversity, as a result from the findings discovered through the Ministry-approved climate survey report of Secondary Schools in 2016-2017, that centered on bullying, attitudes toward LGBT persons,…

Norman, Is That You? performed by Raymond Choo Kong

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Brandon Kalyan

The monologue for Norman, Is That You? performed by Raymond Choo Kong and presented by the Pride Arts Festival of Trinidad and Tobago…

On February 24th, 2012, a group of motivated young people came together to tackle bullying and suicide prevention for marginalised youth, after 16-year-old George Kazanjian tragically took his own life. George’s passing ignited a flame under these youths, a flame that burns even brighter today. We are incredibly honoured and proud to be here, six years later. From the introduction of our Safe Space sessions at the University of the West Indies in 2013, the development of parenting resources for…

K(no)W HIV

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Earl Edmund

On #WorldAIDSDay we stand in solidarity with persons who are living with HIV/AIDS in our nation, and around the world. The HIV/AIDS epidemic hit the Caribbean in the late ‘70s, and according to a UNAIDS/WHO report, the Caribbean was registered as the second-most affected region in the world by 2001, with an estimated 420,000 people – more than two percent of the adult population – living with HIV. While ambitious efforts have been launched to achieve the end of AIDS…

Proud to “B” in the LGBT

Posted on September 23, 2017 by Earl Edmund

Today, we celebrate Bisexual Visibility Day. First observed in 1999, September 23rd has since been marked around the world as a day of celebration for bisexual visibility and pride. It was the brainchild of Wendy Curry, Michael Page, and Gigi Raven Wilbur, three United States bisexual rights activists. People individually and collectively celebrate bisexual pride and awareness in many ways, including parties, flag-flying, workshops, film screenings and social cyber events. Bisexual men and women still continue to face stigmatization, prejudice…

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