Year: 2025
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The LGBT+ staff association
The LGBT+ staff association is a self-governing and voluntary association for LGBT+ employees and allies working in the Municipality of Copenhagen. The purpose of the association is to provide a safe space where members can share dilemmas, challenges, and work experiences that are specific to LGBT+ persons. The association also identifies LGBT+ issues of relevance…
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Public Security Campaign “Safe and Visible Together” – Promoting the Safety of Queer People
As part of the “Mannheim’s Allies” project, the public campaign “Safe and Visible Together” raised awareness of violence against queer people and promoted safety, visibility, and solidarity. Posters displayed on trams, in public spaces, and across social media featured queer Mannheim residents alongside city and police leaders like the lord mayor and the police president,…
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Internal Queer Awareness Training for Administrative Staff
The Department of Labor & Social Affairs, in close collaboration with the LGBTI Commission of the City, organised a two-part training for all management staff to promote understanding of queer issues and equality within the administration. The sessions were designed and delivered by the Commission’s staff in coordination with the department. Topics included LGBTI identities,…
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LGBT+ seminar – An inclusive job market for LGBT+ persons
As part of Copenhagen Pride 2025, the Equality Unit hosted a seminar at the City Hall focusing on LGBT+ inclusion in the labor market. The event was arranged in collaboration with the Employment and Integration Administration and brought together LGBT+ persons, politicians, municipal employees, and NGOs. One of the aims was to create dialogue and…
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Educational training on bias, stereotypes, and uncon-scious discrimination
The Equality Unit is developing a new digital training material aimed at all municipal employees. The purpose of the training is to provide knowledge and tools for employees to better recognize, prevent, and handle unconscious bias and discrimination and stereotyping in the workplace. This initiative is part of the City’s broader action plan against racism,…
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Berlin Strategy for Queer Safety and Against Queerphobia
In Berlin´s government policy guidelines the Senate of Berlin has undertaken to ‘develop a “state strategy for queer safety and against queerphobia” and to establish a Round Table on ‘Protection against queer-hostile hate crime’. The Berlin state strategy was developed under the leadership of the „State Office for Equal Treatment – Against Discrimination“ (LADS) as…
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Monitoring Report on Anti-Queer Violence and Discrimination in Berlin
Berlin is the only federal state in Germany so far that runs a “Monitoring Report on Anti-Queer Violence in Berlin” as an instrument to combat hate violence against lesbian, gay, bi+, trans*, intersex and queer people (LGBTIQ+). The “Monitoring Report on Anti-Queer Violence in Berlin” has been published every two years since 2020. Besides analysing…
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A call to action against cyberviolence
The internet and social media have transformed the ways we connect, share information, and mobilize. For many LGBTIQ+ people, these spaces offer refuge, support, and the freedom to express themselves, especially when acceptance is lacking in their immediate surroundings. However, they are also spaces where specific forms of violence occur : harassment, hate speech, algorithmic…