City: Heidelberg
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Queer History & Remembrance: a memorial plaque for Magnus Hirschfeld & the exhibition “gefährdet leben”
In 2025, Heidelberg unveiled a memorial plaque for Magnus Hirschfeld at Sandgasse 10, where he lived as a student in 1890–91. The physician and pioneer of sexual science and queer rights is now honored as part of the city’s remembrance culture. The inauguration by Heidelberg’s Deputy Mayor for Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities and the…
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Cooperation with Heidelberg University
In October 2025, Heidelberg launched the first “Rainbow City Heidelberg Lecture” with speaker Prof. Sabine Hark (TU Berlin) in the Old Auditorium of Heidelberg University. The lecture also marked the start of the new Gender & Queer Studies Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) – developed jointly by the city and the university. The CAS combines…
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TIN Swimming Hour
To provide safer spaces in sports, Heidelberg hosts exclusive swimming sessions for trans, intersex, and non-binary (TIN) people at the City Pool. Organized with the TIN-Stammtisch Heidelberg during both Trans Day of Visibility and the Trans* Action Weeks Rhein-Neckar around Trans Day of Remembrance, the project addresses exclusion mechanisms in everyday life. With affordable entry,…
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Focusing on Queer History
To coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the city of Heidelberg presented the exhibition “Broken Connections Ravensbrück – The Paths of Women-Loving Women into Resistance and Deportation” in the foyer of Heidelberg City Hall from January 9 to February 9, 2024. Exhibition and programme were organized by the Institute for History and…
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Specialist office “Rainbow City Kids”
The “Rainbow City Kids” specialist office, which is funded by the city of Heidelberg, is committed to promoting the acceptance of sexual and gender diversity in all areas of children and young people’s lives. It provides prevention services for Heidelberg schools, youth centers, youth associations and daycare centers. It teaches argumentation and action skills in…
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Pride March Heidelberg
Heidelberg’s second Pride March took place on June 15, 2024 with over 3,000 visitors. Launched in 2023 by the Queerfeminist Collective Heidelberg as a rather spontaneous initiative of young queer people, the Pride March was a complete success in both 2023 and 2024 bringing many people together to take to the streets for queer rights.…