Year: 2025
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Diverse Stadt Gießen
Event series “Diverse City” What does it mean to live and work together with people from different ways of life and with different realities? What does it take to make living together a success? Where can friction arise? Where does discrimination begin? The Giessen city administration is also addressing these questions. It sees diversity in…
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New Taipei Pride Month Photo Exhibition
New Taipei City is deeply committed to nurturing an inclusive and understanding community, and a cornerstone of this effort is the New Taipei Pride Month in June. The Social Welfare Department, along with TAPCPR (Taiwan Alliance to Promote Civil Partnership Rights), organized a compelling photography exhibition showcasing transgender experiences and the vibrant array of diverse…
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Honoring Queer Activism through Zurich’s Equality Award
The City Council of Zurich recognizes outstanding achievements and commitment to gender equality and the rights of LGBTI people through its biennial Equality Award. Endowed with CHF 20’000, the award highlights exemplary initiatives that actively advance equality and inclusion in the city. In 2025, the Equality Award was presented to Homosexuelle Arbeitsgruppen Zürich (HAZ –…
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LGBTIQ* safety networks for Munich
As an outcome of the new safety strategy a network was set up for staff of community centres and services who come together several times per year for updates on the security situation and to discuss safety. Existing safety measures were evaluated with the support of the local police, funding was provided and new safety…
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New LGBTIQ* strategies and policies in Munich
In 2025 a strong focus of our work was the building of new strategies with regard to the LGBTIQ* community, city politics and administration and urban society to safeguard the accomplishments of the past, to maintain the standards of anti-discrimination and equality that have been reached in the last decades and to take steps to…
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LHBTI+ Support
LHBTI+ Support provides specialized services for LGBTQIA+ people, with a focus on gender and sexual diversity. Their mission is to foster resilience and empowerment, helping individuals and communities to grow stronger together. At LHBTI+ Support, diversity is the standard. They offer individual guidance, tailored to age and life stage, on topics such as coming out,…
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Third municipal Frankfurt Pride Month (June 14 to July 18)
The third Pride Month was organised by the Anti-discrimination unit within the department of diversity, anti-discrimination and societal cohesion and the Department of Multicultural Affairs. Thanks to special funding of €50,000, queer life was made visible with over 32 events in fifteen districts. The festivities kicked off with the “Diversity on the Main” festival organized…
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Frankfurt Pride
Under the motto “Never silent again – Frankfurt is loud,” Pride was celebrated over four days in Frankfurt. For the first time, the festival was located on the banks of the Main River. In addition to various stages, information and food stands, there was a youth area and, for the first time, a separate area…
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The power of storytelling – giving queer people and their biographies a stage
Together with the Equal Opportunities and Diversity Office at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, the Coordination Office for LGBTIQ Issues organized the symposium “Queering Family – between loving practice and discriminatory law.” In addition to expert input, queer people living in different family constellations shared their experiences, challenges, and joys. At another storytelling panel at…
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Tour d’Amour
Tour d’Amour is an initiative from the Empowerment Foundation that focusses on the position of the LGBTI-elderly. They have grown up in a time during which it they were not able to talk about their feelings. It is often still hard for them to talk about these issues out of fear of bullying and incomprehension,…