Tribute to the long-standing struggle for better conditions for LGBTQ people with minority ethnic backgrounds.

Tine Bryld Award 2018 goes to Sabaah

Tine Bryld Prisen (award) has just been awarded for the sixth time. This year, the prize went to the Danish NGO Sabaah, who has been fighting for better terms for LGBTQ+ people of minority ethnic background since 2006. With the prize follows up to 500,000 Danish kroner, the jury selected Sabaah among 120 nominated candidates.

Lille Vega formed the frame around this year’s Tine Bryld Award, Denmark’s greatest social award, which was established in 2013 and thus has been awarded for the sixth time. Sara Bovin, who are hosting DR’s Tvær daily, was again at the forefront of the show where Barselona and Niels Brandt performed.

The award are in cooperation with TrygFonden, Project Plan B and DR, consists of up to DKK 500,000, of which half are earmarked for the development of a project under the auspices of the Tine Bryld Award. In addition, the special statue created by Leif Sylvester.

12 years of exemplary work is honoured

This year, the prize went to Sabaah, an NGO, working to improve the conditions for LGBTQ+ people – including homosexual and bisexual and transgender – with minority ethnic backgrounds.

The organisation provides consultancy, arranges network cafes, lectures and workshops, as well as engages in public debate – both in the polls and in public spaces. Sabaah was founded in 2006, and the organisation is running projects across Denmark.

An important speech tube

Gunvor Wibroe, are for the first time in charge of the prize committee, handed over the prize to Sabaah’s leader, Laeth Shir Ali. In his motivational speech, Wibroe, among other things, motivated giving the award with the following words:

You are working on so many levels, and your results speak for themselves. Over the years, Sabaah has made a world difference for hundreds of people. You are an important voice and speaker for LGBTQ + people among ethnic minorities. You are important to all of us!

Laeth Shir Ali states the following:

Receiving of the prize is first and foremost a recognition that demonstrates our work for all those who do not know us yet. The recognition can not be measured in crowns and pennies. We are of course also fond of crowns and pennies, as they allow us to broaden our efforts geographically and we can endorse the quality assurance of our initiatives.

120 nominated candidates

Sabaah was selected among 120 candidates, which this year was set for the Tine Bryld Award. The prize committee consists in addition to Gunvor Wibroe of Michael Christiansen, Søren Thide, Lea Bryld, Ida Koch, Jørgen Illum Frichke and Erik Valeur.

The idea of awarding the prize came from Project Plan B and its board of directors, which Tine Bryld part of from the board’s establishment in 2005 until her death in April 2011. The prize’s main task is to give a pat on the back to enthusiasts who fights for new social roads.