Year: 2024
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Queer Gym Rotterdam
Queer Gym Rotterdam is the first Dutch gym aimed at non-normative bodies. It stands for openness, inclusivity and fun. Everyone is welcome. Wether you you identify as queer or straight. As long as you don’t judge or discriminate. At Queer Gym being part of the community is about more than exercise. They facilitate events by…
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A tram celebrating 30 years of Pride
The Zurich Pride Festival took place for the 30th time on 14 and 15 June 2024. Once again, tens of thousands demonstrated their solidarity with the LGBTI community. To mark the anniversary, the city parliament made a generous financial contribution to the Zurich Pride association. This enabled the association to implement various measures to improve…
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Strengthening the employee network
Members of the LGBTI community often have a hard time in the workplace. Many therefore hesitate to tell others about their sexual orientation or gender identity. This makes networking events for LGBTI employees so important. As an event open to all municipal LGBTI employees was previously lacking, the City of Zurich 2024 organised a panel…
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A leaflet on trans minors for school professionals
The more children and teenagers do not conform to the norms of their assigned gender, the more likely it is that they will experience marginalisation and violence at school. This makes it necessary for schools to make sure that trans children are recognised and respectfully supported in their gender identity. In 2024, the city of…
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Pride Month and IDAHOT day 2024
Since 2021, the Equality Mission of the City of Bordeaux has been coordinating Pride Month from 17 May to 30 June, with a €15,000 call for projects. Launched each year on IDAHOT Day, 17 May, this event offers a diverse and varied programme to promote the rights of LGBTQI people over more than a month.…
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Special Exhibition “Queer in Life! Paths and Stages of Queer Life in Mannheim and the Region” at the Mannheim City Archive MARCHIVUM
The exhibition follows the eventful paths and stages of queer life in Mannheim and the region. On the one hand, they are characterized by persecution, stigmatization and discrimination, and on the other hand by rebellion, queer emancipation and the emergence of queer communities. The MARCHIVUM exhibition, curated by Dr. Andreas Schenk, is a follow-up project…
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Good Practices – São Paulo
Human Rights and Citizenship for LGBTI+ people: 5 LGBTI+ Citizenship Centers offer social, psychosocial and legal assistance to LGBTI+ people who are vulnerable or victims of LGBTphobia, to defend and promote their rights. They also work with other public services, private institutions and civil society organizations to establish partnerships and expand knowledge on the LGBTI+…
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Pre Election Advocacy by LGBTI+ NGOs – Cork City
In advance of Local & European elections in June 2024 The Gay Project, LINC and Gender Rebels – all members of Cork LGBTI+ InterAgency Group came together in the face of increasing Far Right hate speech and violence, and its popularisation in mainstream political discourse , to call on LGBTI+ Community members to use their…
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Inclusion of Rainbow Cities in the Cork City Local Economic and Community Plan 2024-2029
Cork City’s LGBTI+ InterAgency Group was called into being from a line in a policy document in 2002, since then the InterAgency group has endeavoured to ensure that LGBTI+ Issues are included in each of the City’s planning, policy and strategic documents.Cork City Council launched its Local and Economic Development Plan 2024 – 2029 :…
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Working collaboratively – locally, nationally and internationally
Cork City believes strongly in the value of networking and working for change toward equality and inclusion and learning from municipalities globally. As well as our active participation in the Rainbow Cities Network we are engaged in many such opportunities to learn and share from other cities.This September the city will welcome members of a…