MOUNTAINEERING & OUTDOOR SPORTS
FOR LGBTIQ+ VISIBILITY
Pink Summits 
is a non-profit campaign to promote queer visibility through outdoor sports
OUR ACTIVITIES AND FUTURE PLANS
OUR ACTIVITIES AND FUTURE PLANS
OUR ACTIVITIES AND FUTURE PLANS
OUR ACTIVITIES AND FUTURE PLANS
OUR ACTIVITIES AND FUTURE PLANS
- Connecting queer outdoor sportspeople so they learn from each other, inspire each other, coordinate their efforts in improving LGBTIQ visibility and creating safe space in outdoor sports
- Joint community events with Akademie Waldschlƶsschen, DAV GOC, Kyrgyz Indigo
- Hiking and climbing events, specifically for queer families, migrants / refugees and asylum seekers, people living with HIV, survivors of violence, people with disabilities, low-income / homeless /marginally housed people
- Trans- and queer women-only outdoor events
- Queer youth camps
- Mentorship for queer youth
- Queer Mountaineering Academy in Central Asia
- Queer Outdoor Fest
- Individual and group scholarships and grants (Apply here)
- Trainings, workshops and courses
- Technical assistance, capacity building and leadership development workshops
- Mental health and burnout-prevention workshops
- Fundraising for local queer initiatives
- In-kind support for sport communities in need
- Co-organisation of Pride events
- Storytelling
- Film and video
- Podcasts
- Environmental and outdoor arts / performances
- Outreach to local and international media on the topics of outdoor sports and queer visibility
- Queer visibility talks and presentations in schools
- Public talks, presentations in outdoor or queer festivals, conferences and other related events
- Renaming queerphobic and sexist mountaineering and rock-climbing routes
- Creating queer-friendly spaces and sensitization of alpine clubs with a focus on Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- Alpine queer history project: documenting queer mountaineering and rock-climbing history
- Monitoring media on the thematic intersection of outdoors sports and queer visibility
- Mapping of queer outdoor sports communities
- Documenting and confronting hate speech directed towards the campaign
- Publications: climbing routes, research results, etc.
- Partnership with local and international organizations in joint advocacy, research, advocacy actions like challenging discriminatory anti-LGBTIQ laws in Kyrgyzstan, immigration and refugee issues, sexual and reproductive rights/justice
- Climbing and queering the highest mountains of each continent, including Everest
- Mountaineering, climbing, long-distance backpacking, skiing & paragliding LGBTIQ+ expeditions
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