Year: 2024
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Video Shoot!
For Shoot!, a video project of the City of Genk and Atelier Zwiep (a social artistic photo project of the Gigos Youth Welfare Center), 10 people from Genk’s rainbow community went in front of the camera to answer questions, without taboos! We went looking for those questions from different groups of Genk’s community life. What…
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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 colorful ‘makeover’ in advance. Together with volunteers from OGWA (Genk’s LGBT and transgender group) and MineWine volunteers, some of these vines were painted in rainbow…
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Bystander Training
The City of Genk organizes bystander training, aimed at citizens, professionals/middlemen and its own city employees. With this, the city wants to create a city-wide movement aimed against unacceptable behavior. A collaboration with the local school campus and youth welfare work was started in 2024. The content of these trainings was adapted to young people,…
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Exhibition: “Who´s Afraid of Stardust? Positions of Contemporary Queer Art”
The Kunsthaus and Kunsthalle Nürnberg were collaborating to present the international group exhibition ‘Who’s Afraid of Stardust? Positions of Contemporary Queer Art’. The exhibition features works by 30 artists who address aspects of queer life and so make substantial contributions to the current debate on diversity with their individual perspectives on societal power structures. More…
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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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Inclusive meeting moments
‘A low-threshold, inclusive place where we can meet each other’ emerged as the greatest need of LGBGTQIA+ individuals in Roeselare (and surrounding areas). In response, the city has since organised a monthly rainbow café. There are also regular actions, for example in the context of IDAHOT. In 2024, for instance, the city organised a drag…
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Internal diversity working group – AG Vielfalt
Several offices and departments of the state capital of Wiesbaden formed the city’s internal diversity group (AG Vielfalt). The member offices represent various diversity characteristics through their areas of work: ethnicity, gender, disability, age, etc. The LGBT+ Coordination Office hosts the meetings which take place every 6-8 weeks. On the occasion of the German Diversity…
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Transsensitive acting for professionals
On Thursday 23 May, RCN cities Roeselare and Kortrijk organised a joint study day on transsensitive acting for professionals. More and more often, professionals are faced with questions about transgender issues and gender diversity, or work with transgender people and their loved ones. During this study day on trans sensitive acting, participants learned how to…