Year: 2024
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Strengthening Queer Security: Workshop between the Queer Community and the Police
In May 2024, a first get-to-know-you workshop for members of Mannheim’s queer community and police employees took place at Mannheim Police Headquarters as part of the municipal field of action “Queer Safety”. The exchange was largely conceived by the Queer Center Mannheim in cooperation with the prevention department of the police. The aim of this…
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Good Practices Ghent – Active Bystander Training
Active Bystander training: in Ghent more than 4000 people were trained as Active Bystanders. Active Bystander Training aims to activate bystanders when confronted with inappropriate behavior, or discrimination. People can intervene using one out of four strategies offered and practiced in the training. The City of Ghent initiates Active bystander training for civilians, organizations and…
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City Of Ghent- genderinclusive toilets
Genderinclusive toilets: From now on, the City of Ghent will only invest in fully accessible and gender-inclusive public toilets. There are 185 public toilets in Ghent. If an existing toilet is renovated or a new sanitary block is built, it will always be gender-inclusive, that is accessible to everyone. A fully accessible toilet has no…
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Remembrance culture on LSBTIQ topics – the example ‘Stolperstein’ (‘stumbling stone’) for Karl Alberti
Queer people were murdered during the Nazi regime and Karl Alberti from Frankfurt was one of them. In 2019 a ‘Stolperstein’ was laid for him. Scattered throughout Europe, these small brass stones are embedded directly on the pavement, amongst the cobbestones. The brass plaques commemorate the lives that were lost, in cities whose past is…
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Internal city training on the implementation of the Self-Determination Act
On Nov 1st, 2024 a self-determination law will be introduced in Germany. Following its introduction, trans*, inter* and non-binary people (TIN) will be able to choose their first name/ gender entry at the local registry office in a self-determined manner. The registry office in Frankfurt has set up a working group to prepare for this.…
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The second Pride month organised by the city of Frankfurt
20 events were organised during the second edition of the Pride Month in May/June 2024 with 22 cooperation partners in nine urban districts. The goal was to create queer visibility not only in the city centre, where most places for queers are located, but throughout the whole city. The Pride Month was organised by the…
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Good practices
LGBTIQ office in Podgorica started a book club In Between the Lines where members of LGBTIQ community chose books with queer and feminist themes for members to read each month. The office provides copies of books that members can borrow and organizes meetings. We created a Discord platform to make it easier for members to…
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Training for social workers
One of the goals of the LGBTIQ office in Podgorica is to strengthen the capacities of professional workers and associates in the field of social and child protection for work with LGBTIQ persons. This year the office organized two-part training for this target group to improve their knowledge and skills to provide direct support and…
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Training for employees in the health and care services
For a four-year period, Bergen municipality will arrange annual competence-enhancing seminars for employees in health and care services on topics related to gender and sexuality with an intersectional perspective. Current themes are gender incongruence, queer with functional variation, older queer, queer in ethnic minority context and in a religious context. Bergen municipality wants to have…
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Milestone for Sexual Health and Prevention – Mannheim becomes Fast-Track City
By deciding to become a Fast-Track City, Mannheim is sending out a strong signal in the fight against and destigmatization of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STI). Mannheim is also the first German city to implement a special prevention module for young people and HIV risk groups as part of Fast-Track City. Fast-Track Cities…