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.
Beyond the Room: A UNGA Week Gathering
📅 Sun, Sept 20 · 6:00 PM onward
📍 Venue details shared upon RSVP
🎟️ RSVP required — Register
An intimate evening bringing together advocates, organizers, changemakers, and allies for meaningful conversation and connection beyond the formal spaces of UNGA. Wine, light bites, conversation, networking.
Hosted by Global Alliance for Queer Leaders (GAQL)
Championing Diversity in Times of Adversity: Standing Up for LGBTI Persons
📅 Mon, Sept 21 · 3:00 – 4:30 PM ET
📍 UN Headquarters, Conference Room 12, New York (also webcast on UN Web TV)
🎟️ RSVP by 9:00 AM ET today, Mon Sept 14 — RSVP
A high-level UNGA week gathering of States, the UN, civil society, and business to showcase how they've continued to stand up for LGBTI persons in complex dynamics.
Hosted by UN LGBTI Core Group
Displaced Twice: When Climate Migration Meets Queer Exclusion
📅 Tue, Sept 22 · 9:00 – 10:30 AM ET
📍 134 W 29th St, 2nd Floor, New York
🎟️ RSVP required — Register
A discussion on how climate displacement, migration systems, and LGBTQI+ exclusion intersect, and what changes when LGBTQI+-led organizations hold real power over the programs and funding meant to serve them.
Hosted by The Sidebar, UHAI EASHRI USA, Rainbow Railroad, New Moon Network, Global Alliance for Queer Leaders (GAQL) & Waypoint Commons
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
