A running list of LGBTIQ+-focused sessions, receptions, and gatherings happening around UNGA Climate Week in New York this September, whether or not Waypoint Commons is hosting.
Know of something that should be here? Email tyler@waypointcommons.org and we'll add it.
The Call Is Coming from Inside the House: Building Solidarity When Scarcity Divides Us
📅 Wed, Sept 23 · 1:30 – 3:00 PM ET
📍 134 W 29th St, 2nd Floor, New York
🎟️ RSVP required — Register
A facilitated dialogue on how funding scarcity creates competition and division within and between LGBTIQ+, trans justice, gender, racial justice, disability, and migration movements, and what it takes to build solidarity across them.
Hosted by The Sidebar & Waypoint Commons
Cocktails & Conversation with Mama Hope
📅 Wed, Sept 23 · 6:00 PM ET
📍 Private residence, New York
🔒 Invite-only
An evening cocktail reception hosted by Mama Hope during UNGA week.
Hosted by Mama Hope
Kiki Social @ The Stonewall Inn
📅 Wed, Sept 23 · 7:00 – 11:30 PM ET
📍 The Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher St, New York (upper level)
🎟️ RSVP required — Register
A night of queer community, joy, and celebration during UNGA & Climate Week at the historic Stonewall Inn. All are welcome. Support from Outright International and Segal Family Foundation.
Hosted by The Rainbow Road & Waypoint Commons
Climate Vulnerability Starts Before the Climate Crisis: LGBTIQ+ Communities, Poverty and Resilience
📅 Thu, Sept 24 · 9:00 – 10:30 AM ET
📍 134 W 29th St, 2nd Floor, New York
🎟️ RSVP required — Register
A working session on the overlap between LGBTIQ+ exclusion, poverty, and climate vulnerability, pooling lived and practitioner experience to start naming the patterns and gaps in the evidence base.
Hosted by The Sidebar & Waypoint Commons
High Risk, or Just Unfamiliar? A Matchbox Fund case study on funding LGBTIQ+ outcomes, safely.
📅 Thu, Sept 24 · 12:00 – 1:30 PM ET
📍 Outright International HQ, near the UN, New York (exact address shared on approval)
✅ Approval required — Request to join
For funders and grantmaking teams: a first look at what the Matchbox Fund learned running its first LGBTIQ+-designated funding round, what worked, what didn't, and what's changing, ahead of a published case study.
Hosted by Matchbox Fund, Waypoint Commons & Outright International
UN LGBTI Core Group Meeting (UNGA Week)
📅 Date & time to be confirmed
📍 UN Headquarters, New York (exact room TBD)
🔒 Invite-only
A meeting of the UN LGBTI Core Group, the informal cross-regional group of UN Member States advocating for LGBTI rights within the UN system, held during UNGA week. More on the Core Group
Hosted by UN LGBTI Core Group