Year: 2024
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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…
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Vrijplaats Brugge
Vrijplaats Brugge, managed by CGSO, officially opened its doors in April 2024. It aims to be a low-threshold, accessible space for small organizations and associations in the city that need a meeting place, but primarily profiles itself as a connection point for the local LGBTQI+ associations and community. There is an open bar two weeks…
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LGBTIQ+ Month of Action and Visibility
The theme of the first “LGBTIQ+ Month of Actions and Visibility” of Lausanne was “Public space”. In addition to posters made by the painter Line Marquis distributed in the whole city, several events were organized: conference, readings for children in parks, sports activities, etc. City Profile: Lausanne
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Addressing the Afroqueer specific challenges
Racialized LGBTIQ+ people suffer from multiple discriminations. They are more affected by precariousness, difficulties in accessing housing and employment, overcriminalization, harassment and violence. Public policies tend to approach discrimination by categories: fight against racism and discrimination based on origins, on the one hand, fight against homophobia and transphobia on the other. People who find themselves…
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Study of Unisanté on the victimisation and delinquency of young SOGIESC people in Lausanne
The aim of this report conducted by Unisanté is firstly to describe the proportion of young from the City of Lausanne who belong to the SOGIESC diversity and the different subgroups that make up it. Secondly, it presents the difficulties faced by the young SOGIESC people in general, and more specifically in the public space…
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IDAHOBIT
On May 16th, in partnership with the University of Lausanne, a conference on the situation of SOGIESC people during the Second World War was organized. On May 17th, in partnership with the association Lilith, the screening of the documentary Nelly & Nadine. City Profile: Lausanne
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Ascending Against the Light: New Taipei City Promotes Gender Diversity at RCN Photo Exhibition
As of May 2024, New Taipei City leads Taiwan with 2,429 same-sex marriage registrations since legalization in 2019. To mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) on May 17, the Secretariat of the New Taipei City Government has partnered with AmCham Taiwan, known for its LGBTQ+ advocacy, to create a visual work…
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Embark on a Graffiti Train Journey to the Rainbow Universe at Banqiao 435 Art Zone
Following the landscape art piece “Floating Rainbow,” the Banqiao 435 Art Zone now unveils “Rainbow Universe: An Artistic Journey Beyond Gender Boundaries.” Resident artist FLEKSONE has created a 77-square-meter graffiti masterpiece on both walls and floors. After months of effort, FLEKSONE completed a piece that blends the colors of the rainbow with cosmic elements, symbolizing…