City: Cologne
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TIN-Sauna Day at a Public Pool
From Sept. 2025 to Feb. 2026, one of the public swimming pools in Cologne is opening the doors of its entire sauna area exclusively for transgender, intersex, and non-binary people (=TIN) every second Wednesday of the month. The swimming pool area can be used as well, but is not only visited by TIN persons. The…
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Inviting LGBTIQ+ Filmmakers from Sister Cities
Since 2017, activists from some of Cologne’s 22 sister cities have been invited to be part of the exchange programme “Sister Cities Stand Together – LGBTI Rights are Human Rights”. New focus in 2025: inviting LGBTI filmmakers to show their latest film (with English subtitles). Each screening is followed by a hosted Q&A session (in…
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LGBTI-Funding Programme: Focus to Reduce Violence and Discrimination at Schools
Since 2022, the City of Cologne has been supporting projects to prevent violence and reduce discrimination against LGBTI people with its own funding programme. New in 2025: Focus to reduce homo- und transphobic violence and discrimination at schools. Generally, associations, groups, organisations and individuals from Cologne’s LGBTI communities as well as those that are not…
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International Exchange Programme: “Sister Cities Stand Together – LGBTI Rights are Human Rights”
Since 2017, the City of Cologne has offered an international exchange programme for LGBTI human rights activists from some of Cologne’s 22 sister cities. Each year during Cologne Pride, a group of international guests visit Cologne. Activists have come from Katowice/Poland, Cluj-Napoca/Romania, Volgograd/ Russia, Tunis/Tunisia, Istanbul/Turkey, Barcelona/Spain, Liverpool/UK, Cork/Ireland, Lille/France, Turku/Finland, Tel Aviv/Israel, Rio/Brazil, Beijing/China…
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Lesbian Visibility Week 2024
Goals: to provide an opportunity to celebrate the diversity and different aspects of lesbian life while also highlighting the challenges and discrimination faced by people who love and live as lesbians.Target Group: lesbians including women who identify as queer/bisexual/pansexual as well as trans and non-binary queers – depending on the event, other queers and straight…
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Campaign to Increase Reporting of Queer Hate Crimes
Campaign Slogan: „Anzeigen statt Aushalten“ („Reporting instead of Enduring“)Goals: to increase reporting of hate crime against LGBTI people and to increase solidarity and decrease tolerance of hate crime against LGBTITarget Group: everyone: victims as well as eye-witnesses and bystandersCooperations: with local police, public prosecutor’s office and NGOs from the LGBTI communitiesDuration: First displayed at public…