City: Gießen

  • Diverse Stadt Gießen

    Event series “Diverse City” What does it mean to live and work together with people from different ways of life and with different realities? What does it take to make living together a success? Where can friction arise? Where does discrimination begin? The Giessen city administration is also addressing these questions. It sees diversity in…

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  • „Diverse city” project

    The city of Giessen has taken the two events: “Diversity Days” and “Pride Month”, May and June, as an opportunity to show with various activities how diversity enriches our university city of Giessen. Giessen is particularly admired by new Giessen residents and visitors for its great diversity, internationality and peaceful coexistence. Giessen’s comparatively young population…

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  • Opening of Pride Month

    Pride Month is the month of June in which the concerns of LGBTI*Q people take center stage and are made visible, and which is celebrated in Giessen with a demonstration and street festival to mark Christopher Street Day. The city administration opened Pride Month with a special day of action on June 4: After the…

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  • Commemoration of the abolition of the “gay paragraph” §175 StGB

    The film “The End of Silence” and a subsequent discussion commemorated the abolition of the “gay paragraph”, §175 StGB, exactly 30 years ago. The film traces the persecution of gay men in particular in Frankfurt in the 1950s. Back then, homosexual men were hunted down with the help of lawyers who had already worked under…

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