“With fear there is no freedom”
Such was the cry that brought together hundreds of demonstrators in Madrid last Saturday, following a week when the news of yet another homophobic attack, which turned out to be untrue, both…
Findings from the AllInc! Belgium report
In this week’s post, the Belgian team of Tessa, Guy & Oliver offers us a glimpse at the results collected for the project’s report (to be published by the Waxmann imprint; link)…
Recent activities at UCA
During and after the recent Pride celebration, the UCA team were involved in a handful of events, at some of which our project was made known to a broader community. You can…
“I am an optimist”
I am an optimist. I have to be an optimist. So let me tell you an optimistic story. Despite all the things that make our lives —the lives of LGBT+ people in…
Inside or outside Europe?
The events of early 1989, when the communist regime and the democratic opposition sat to negotiate, not only signalled the beginning of Poland’s transition process and triggered the fall of the Iron…
From bystanders to upstanders: meet UP4Diversity
Legal changes to the rights and protections of the LGBTIQ community in Hungary and Poland, in progress for some time but accelerating rapidly more recently, are having a predictably detrimental outcome. Today, we…
Black day for Hungarian people, not only for the LGBTQI+ community
On the 15th of June 2021, Hungary’s Parliament voted to adopt legislation, originally referred to as the anti-pedophile act, aiming to protect children from sexual abuse and harassment. However, at the very last…
Sexuality education: Greece moving one step forward
The school year 2021-2022 will be a landmark for sexuality education in Greece. The Greek Ministry of Education decided it will introduce Sexuality Education in national compulsory curricula for primary and secondary…
Celebrating queerness in a secondary education school
Being a teenager has never been an easy task. Even less so when one feels they do not fit the mould. In this period, during which one’s identity is still being constructed,…
IDAHOBIT – what a day…
Nowadays nearly everyone, even traditional straight people, knows what Gay Pride (in Germany: Christopher Street Day) means, as it is a loud colourful event that is hard to miss. Some members of…