Rosanna Flamer Caldera

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Rosanna Flamer Caldera, 2007

Rosanna Flamer-Caldera (born March 16, 1956 in Ceylon ) was from 2003 to 2008 Co-Secretary General of the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), the global umbrella organization for lesbian, gay and transgender organizations. She is the coordinator of the Women's Support Group, the only organization for gay women in Sri Lanka, and a founding member and director of Equal Ground, the only mixed LGBTI group in Sri Lanka.

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Rosanna Flamer-Caldera was born in Sri Lanka and is partly of Dutch descent. When she was 18, she immigrated to the United States. There she initially worked in contact lens manufacture. After that she was employed in a travel agency for twelve years.

After 15 years in the USA, she returned to the country of her birth, where her parents also lived. In Sri Lanka, she initially ran a golf shop for two years together with a professional golfer. Then she worked in advertising and event marketing . At this time she began to get involved in the environmental movement. In 1998 Flamer-Caldera's father died. Her mother, although raised Catholic, supported her daughter, who was an openly lesbian, in her later work as an activist of the organized LGBTI movement.

Flamer-Caldera has been actively campaigning for the rights of queer people since 1999 . That year she co-founded the Women's Support Group. From 2001 she worked for the International Lesbian and Gay Association , initially as the female representative of Asia on the ILGA Executive Board. In this role she organized the first ILGA Asia Regional Conference in Mumbai in 2002 . In 2003 she was elected Co-Secretary General of ILGA. So she was at the head of the ILGA together with Philipp Braun . She also became a member of the international advisory board of the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation .

In 2004 she founded Equal Ground with other activists , of which she is still managing director. In this function, she is in contact with civil rights and human rights organizations and embassy representatives, publishes reports and collects donations. Among other things, the organization campaigns against forced marriage , organizes educational courses about HIV / AIDS and offers an anonymous hotline. She organizes public LGBT events such as the annual Pride in Columbo , which is opened by Flamer Caldera. She is also trying to improve acceptance of cross-border people in Sri Lanka, where homosexual acts are still officially prohibited under the Penal Code, Article 365A. At the opening of the Rainbow Runway 2010 fashion show organized by Equal Ground, Flamer-Caldera asked the government to abolish the paragraph. Prime Minister DM Jayaratne then signaled willingness to talk, but this conversation did not take place.

In 2005 Flamer-Caldera received the Utopia Award for campaigning for the rights of LGBTI people both in Sri Lanka and internationally and for drawing the public's attention to the problems of homosexual people through the press, radio and television.

Flamer-Caldera's tenure at ILGA ended in 2008, and she is succeeded by Gloria Careaga Pérez from Mexico.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Raisa Wickrematunge: On Overcoming - Prejudice Rosanna Flamer-Caldera. (PDF; 199 kB) In: The Sunday Leader November 25, 2012. Accessed March 2, 2013.
  2. ↑ Interview: Sri Lankan activist Rosanna Flamer-Caldera. orinam.net. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  3. ^ ILGA team in Geneva. ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ilga.org. Retrieved March 2, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ilga.org
  4. ↑ Advisory Board of the Foundation ( Memento of the original dated February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. hirschfeld-eddy-stiftung.de. Retrieved March 2, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hirschfeld-eddy-stiftung.de
  5. ↑ About Us ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. equal-ground.org. Retrieved March 2, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.equal-ground.org
  6. ↑ Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha: Rosanna Flamer-Caldera: Standing her ground. Pride 2007 Internation Marshal. In: Xtra June 21, 2007. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  7. ↑ Celebrating Pride in Sri Lanka. groundviews.org, July 9, 2010. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  8. ↑ Sri Lankan gays want equal rights. English.news.cn, July 9, 2011. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  9. ↑ Asia 2005 utopia-asia.com. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
  10. ↑ Douglas Sanders: ILGA at 30. In: Fridae November 19, 2008. Retrieved March 2, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Flamer Caldera, Rosanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sri Lankan Co-General Secretary of the International Lesbian and Gay Association
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Ceylon