Join The Pinkster Tournaments tradition of global LGBTQIA+ support. Each year, our outreach program promotes a cause fighting for equal rights within our community. We raise funds to show solidarity and offer support to our LGBTQIA+ family worldwide. Help us make a difference and build a more inclusive world.
This year we’re raising money for Spread The Word Collective.
OUR OUTREACH PROGRAM
2025
Spread the word
Spread the Word – Intersex collective is a grassroots organisation dedicated to individuals with lived intersex experiences. Our mission is to build a strong, supportive community where members can connect, find solidarity, and celebrate their identities. Above all, we are committed to celebrating intersex joy—embracing the unique experiences, resilience, and vibrancy of our community.
We aim to empower individuals and create a community that feels confident and capable of advocating for themselves and others. By fostering visibility for intersex individuals and working to increase social awareness, we seek to create a world where intersex voices are heard and valued.
PREVIOUS charities
We are Queertopia: we help people from the LGBTQIA+ communities to develop according to their own ideals. Within Dutch society, hetero and cis/binary gender are the norm. Therefor queer people often fall by the wayside.
This brings about various complexities. LGBTQIA+ individuals face violence, discrimination, and exclusion, or isolate themselves from the outside world to avoid risking those experiences. For instance, trans individuals are often lonelier, and many gay men experience oppressive norms regarding masculinity.
Therefore, Queertopia Foundation focuses on promoting the mental and physical health of LGBTQIA+ individuals. We want to provide queer people with the space to connect with each other, to unfold and discover themselves, to experience queer joy and gender freedom, regardless of heteronormative standards and binary gender norms.
We do this, among other things, with We Are Queer, a safe haven for queer individuals to engage in sports and come together for workshops and events surrounding queer culture. Additionally, Queertopia focuses on realizing an international online healthcare platform for trans individuals, as well as on social science research to deepen and broaden the knowledge about the needs of queer people.
2024
Queertopia
2024
PRIDE & SPORTS
Pride and Sports is the national platform for LGBTQIA+ in sports. Pride and Sports advocates for a safe sports environment for all athletes, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or sex characteristics.
Sports contribute to our personal development and provide a powerful tool for societal connection. To participate in society and to fully develop oneself, it is crucial that you can be yourself everywhere and at all times.
By working towards a safe and positive sports climate for everyone, Pride and Sports makes a tangible contribution to this goal.
We are very pleased to announce that we have selected for our Outreach Program 2023, LGBT Asylum Support as an NGO that is supporting LGBTI refugees.
LGBT Asylum Support is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) founded in 2015. The purpose of the organisation is to provide support for LGBTI-refugees in the Netherlands. Sandro Kortekaas founded LGBT Asylum Support as a response to the prohibition of ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations’ by the Russian parliament. In collaboration with fellow LGBTI-organisations, LGBT Asylum Support provides support to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender -and Intersex refugees throughout the asylum procedure. The organisation serves both as a guide and a safety net for LGBTI-refugees.
Mission
LGBT Asylum Support advocates on behalf of LGBTI refugees in the asylum procedure or those who are eligible to the refugee status in the Netherlands.
Through your donation, you are helping an LGBTI person to survive.
Read more about the LGBT Asylum Support
2023
LGBT Asylum support
2022
forbidden
colours
Our Outreach Program 2022 was Forbidden Colours. Forbidden Colours is a NGO that is supporting LGBTIQ+ refugees.
In 2022 Forbidden Colours has started a fund-raising campaign as it is expected that 100.000 LGBTIQ+ Ukrainians will arrive in Europe. In the past, refugee camps have proven not to be safe spaces for LGBTIQ+ persons.
The fundraising campaign will support organisations in Poland, Hungary and Romania that are welcoming LGBTIQ+ refugees. They will provide first-line help, such as housing. In the meantime, Forbidden Colours advocates with high-level government officials to arrange a more sustainable solution inside the European Union for these LGBTIQ+ refugees.
Through your donation, you are helping an LGBTIQ+ person to survive.
Secret Garden is a foundation focused on LGBTQI’s (Lesbian / Gay / Bisexual and Transgender) with a Muslim or other ethnic-cultural background, based in Amsterdam. Secret Garden offers information and support to these groups on various topics and activities. To persons who are threatened by family and/or put on the streets, Secret Garden supports through her volunteer network shelter and psychological support.
In addition, Secret Garden supports on a daily basis LGBTQI+ asylum seekers in the Netherlands who come from countries where they cannot be open about their sexual orientation, it is forbidden or even involves life-threatening situations. Over the last three years, Secret Garden has supported more than 500 refugees and asylum seekers. Secret Garden wants to create more awareness of the specific problems of LGBTQIs with a migrant background and contribute to increasing the acceptance of LGBTQI’s in their own community.
Furthermore, Secret Garden organizes courses, debates, language lessons and recurring events such as Oriendam.
Read more about the Secret Garden Foundation.
2021
secret garden foundation
2018
bisi alimi
foundation
nigeria
Nigeria is one of the 72 countries where LGBT people are constitutionally criminalised with 14 years of imprisonment. In those parts of Northern Nigeria governed by Sharia, homosexuality is punishable by death – one of few countries in which this is the case. This puts Nigeria in the spotlight, creating fear within the LGBT community, as well as among their families and friends. It has led to indiscriminate arrest of LGBT people and constant victimisation from the society.
Bisi Alimi is a human rights activist on the LGBT brain drain in Africa – fighting for equal rights for LGBT in Nigeria. The Bisi Alimi Foundation advocates for the rights and dignity of LGBT people in Nigeria by addressing public opinion and accelerating social acceptance. They strive to achieve their goals through:
Through research, they sample public opinions and social acceptance of LGBT people in Nigeria,
They develop short video campaigns to create awareness and change the social perception of LGBT people in Nigeria.
They run 2 training fellowships. The media justice fellowship is aimed at empowering Nigerian media to conduct nonbiased, fair and balanced reporting on LGBT issues. The legal fellowship trains legal and paralegal professionals on how to provide LGBT legal support and representation.
Read more about the Bisi Alimi Foundation
Gay and lesbians in Iraq and Kurdistan live in extremely difficult circumstances. Not only is their region affected by ongoing war and armed conflict, the iraqi and kurdish societies are very repressive towards sexuality in general, especially for women and LGBTs. IraQueer is the first and only LGBT+ organization focusing on the LGBT+ community in Iraq/Kurdistan region. With a core team of diverse activists mostly residing inside Iraq, IraQueer represents the start of the first queer movement in Iraq’s public history.
IraQueer supports members of the queer community through providing direct services, support and protection. In addition they do international advocacy efforts based on documentations and reports by their members. Have a look and read some heartbraking, yet encouraging stories. With your donation IraQueer can increase their important work for an invisible LGBT community who desparately need our support.