Year: 2024
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Physical Reporting Point for Sexual Transgressive Behavior
Every year, Kortrijk organizes a citywide event during the third weekend of May. Different organizations collaborate to transform the entire city into a large-scale event. This year, in light of IDAHOT, we experimented with a physical reporting point and educational posters about the bystander effect. Research shows that LGBTQIA+ people are at a higher risk…
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Specialist office “Rainbow City Kids”
The “Rainbow City Kids” specialist office, which is funded by the city of Heidelberg, is committed to promoting the acceptance of sexual and gender diversity in all areas of children and young people’s lives. It provides prevention services for Heidelberg schools, youth centers, youth associations and daycare centers. It teaches argumentation and action skills in…
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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 people, the Pride March was a complete success in both 2023 and 2024 bringing many people together to take to the streets for queer rights.…
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Opening of Pride Month
Pride Month is the month of June in which the concerns of LGBTI*Q people take center stage and are made visible, and which is celebrated in Giessen with a demonstration and street festival to mark Christopher Street Day. The city administration opened Pride Month with a special day of action on June 4: After the…
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Visibility and celebration of gender and sexual diversity in Oslo
Visibility and celebration of queer Oslo will raise awareness of gender and sexual diversity among the general public in Oslo. Many people in Oslo do not define themselves within the two-gender model. The City of Oslo will integrate more inclusive language into the municipality’s language profile and implement gender-neutral toilet signs in its signage programme.…
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Training and enhanced competence in addressing gender and sexual diversity in the municipality’s services and agencies.
This focus area encompasses training for municipal employees, integrating knowledge of intersectional discrimination, as well as gender and sexual diversity, into systematic quality improvement efforts and the municipality’s governing documents. The training will ensure equality in the municipality’s services, which will be tailored to accommodate individuals who do not conform with traditional gender and sexuality…
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Strengthening its action within the RCN
In march 2024, the city of Paris hosted the annual in-person meeting of the Board at the Hotel de Ville (city hall). After their work session, they were able to visit the LGBTQIA+ Centre of Paris and meet its president. They had the opportunity to discover La Bulle, house of LGBTQIA+ solidarity and meet Jean-Luc…
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Lesbian Visibility: a new internal network and a huge celebration on April 26th
Lesbian visibility has been celebrated by the city of Paris for the third time and this year we decided to go big! From 3PM to 10PM, visitors were able to participate to sports initiations, discover associations that are actively dedicated to lesbian visibility and have a drink while listening to a round-table discussion on the…
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A tool to denounce homophobia and lesbophobia inside the Parisian administration
At the city of Paris, the human resources department constantly improves it anti-discrimination strategy especially when it comes to LGBTQIA+ phobia. To count LGBTQIA+ phobias, the city has teamed up with l’Autre cercle (association) to launch an LGBTQIA+ barometer. On may 17th, the results came out and overall, 88% of employees considered the city to…