Policy Field: Infrastructure & Public Spaces
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Inclusive Facilities : Universal Change Rooms and Washrooms
The City of Montréal is introducing universal change rooms and washrooms across its facilities to promote safe, respectful, and inclusive access for all — including families, groups, trans and non-binary […]
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LGBTI+ Awareness Week Bus Stop Posters
As part of our commitment to visibility and inclusion, the 2024 LGBTI+ Awareness Week extended beyond events and conversations into the heart of the city. Bus stop signage across Cork […]
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One-Stop Support for All Forms of Discrimination
The Horizontal Anti-Discrimination Office provides advice on all grounds protected under the German General Equal Treatment Act – age, disability, gender, perceived origin, religion and belief, and sexual identity. It […]
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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 […]
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MineWine goes Rainbow
MineWine is a civic initiative in which vines were planted at the base of Winterslag’s mine ridge. To add to the focus of IDAHOT week, the vines are getting a […]
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Rainbow Roundabout
The mayor of the state capital Wiesbaden inaugurated a Rainbow Roundabout before Gay Pride. After a rainbow-coloured zebra crossing caused controversy last year and was damaged by unknown persons, there […]
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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 […]
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WELCOMING OUT
The WELCOMING OUT initiative was launched in June 2022 in Hamburg to support fear-free coming out for queer individuals by making acceptance and openness visible in society. The initiative emerged […]
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Rainbow House Nuremberg
There are several queer initiatives and associations in Nuremberg, only two have their own premises, the majority have to organize themselves elsewhere. We have taken this as an opportunity to […]
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Queeres Bildungszentrum
The well known Viennese counselling-center COURAGE opened together with the Austrian Society for Sexual Sciences (ÖGS) a new Queer Education Center. Here these two organisations can hold their training courses […]