🏳️🌈 Pride Month is here! We celebrate progress made and the journey ahead.
Equality isn’t instant. Ιt’s built daily, step by step, action by action.
#EUAgencies unite to protect the rights, safety & dignity of LGBTIQ+ people across Europe.
#EU4LGBTI #EUPrideMonth #EUAN
Ας αποδεχτούμε τη διαφορετικότητα χωρίς να κάνουμε διακρίσεις!
Η Γερμανία υψώνει τη σημαία τη Διεθνή ημέρα κατά της ομοφοβίας, της αμφιφοβίας και της τρανσφοβίας (IDAHOBIT) στις 17 Μαΐου.
#IDAHOBIT #LGBTQI #InternationalerTaggegenHomophobie #EU4LGBTI
‘Thank you to #TeamEurope 🇧🇪🇮🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹🇳🇱 for hosting members of civil society, business community, academia and consulates for great exchange about same sex unions. Marrying your loved one is about human dignity. Let’s work together for more equality!’ - 🇪🇺 Amb @harveyrouse.bsky.social #EU4LGBTI
L'Europe couleur arc-en-ciel au Parlement Européen à Bruxelles🏳️🌈
#EU4LGBTI #loveislove
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As we start a week of hearings @ the Commission, and at this crucial crossroads, ILGA-Europe calls on all Commissioners-designate & President von der Leyen to support the introduction of a comprehensive & robust LGBTI equality strategy#ThisIsWhy #EU4LGBTI
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An important step on the road towards a critically needed EU LGBTI strategy for the next five years #EULGBTIStrategy #EU4LGBTI #ThisIsWhy
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#ThisIsWhy we are making a clear and unequivocal call for a comprehensive EU LGBTI strategy for the next five years #EU4LGBTI #LGBTI #LGBT #LGBTQI #Poland
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Ulrike Lunacek makes her concluding remarks: "we need an inclusive, comprehensive and intersectional LGBTI Strategy, we need member states not just to talk and use nice words" #EU4LGBTI "this is about living a life free from fear, free from shame
Ulrike Lunacek, MEP (2009-17), the first openly lesbian politician in Austria makes her concluding remarks: "we have to win the hearts and minds of the people in the middle of the far right extremists and us." #EU4LGBTI #ThisIsWhy we need a comprehensive eU LGBTI strategy
Violeta Tomic, General rapporteur on the rights of LGBTI people: "We have to communicate with the people, because we are all under propaganda and whoever has the strongest propaganda wins" #EU4LGBTI #ThisIsWhy we need a comprehensive LGBTI strategy for the next 5 years
Anti-equality and anti-gender movements are on the rise. Even if they are a minority, they are very well resourced. We all see clearly that this is a crisis, and if we come together around this, then we can start combatting. #EU4LGBTI #ThisIsWhy we urgently need an LGBTI strategy
Roberta Metsola, MEP, EPP (Malta): Let’s hold our commissioners to account for everything they say [at the hearings] next week to get a majority. #EU4LGBTI
Vyacheslav Melnyk, MD, Campaign Against Homophobia, Poland: “In Poland on national and locals levels, the EU commission is a little to far away from people. It’s a bit of a mirage that the EU cares about them at all.” #EU4LGBTI
What are the fundamental rights that every human being is entitled to? We will not stand by and watch as trans people are murdered, or where intersex babies are mutilated, where people have to flee for their lives. #ThisIsWhy #EU4LGBTI
Ari Kajtezovic, Transgender Europe: “We know that there are mechanisms that the EU use on countries who want to be part of the EU, yet we don’t hold our own member states to that account.” #EU4LGBTI #ThisIsWhy we need a comprehensive LGBTI strategy for the next 5 years
Vyacheslav Melnyk, MD Campaign Against Homophobia in Poland: “I wake up in a Europe where LGBT Free zone stickers are sold. We wake up in a Europe where one of the member states is using LGBTI people as enemy number one.” #EU4LGBTI #ThisIsWhy we need an LGBTI strategy
“Changing people takes time, look at what you can do as a first step and what you can do fast,” says Dan Christian Ghattas, Organisation Intersex International Europe #EU4LGBTI #ThisIsWhy we need a comprehensive LGBTI strategy for the next 5 years
“We’ve got to go local. At all levels of an #LGBTIstrategy, the endpoint has to be the street in the village,” Michael O’Flaherty, Director FRA. “Get personal. Ireland voting for same-sex marriage was about smart people putting human faces on stories.” #EU4LGBTI #ThisIsWhy
“It is a Europe where more and more political parties are using LGBTI people as scapegoats to foster division,” says our ED Evelyne Paradis, “More than ever we need to be united.” #EU4LGBTI #ThisIsWhy we need a comprehensive LGBTI strategy for the next 5 years
“There is no place for complacency at all,” says Szabolcs Schmidt, Head of Unit Non-Discrimination and Roma Co-ordination, presenting the results of Eurobarometer Discrimination 2019 #EU4LGBTI #ThisIsWhy ILGA-Europe is calling for an LGBTI strategy for the next five years
We have great expectations of an LGBTI strategy from the incoming Commissioner for Equality, @helenadall, says Ingrid van Engelshoven, Minister for Education, Culture and Science (The Netherlands) in her keynote speech. #EU4LGBTI
Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality" “Hate speech against LGBTI people... is very easily using the atmosphere in the society, a fear of losing the tradtional values. It is always useful... to find the enemy.” #EU4LGBTI
“The EU first and foremost is a community of values, which must be respected if the EU is to function,” says Thomas Blomqvist, Finnish Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Equality in his opening address to Advancing LGBTI Equality in the EU conference. #EU4LGBTI
Mercedes Garcia Perez, head of human right unit at @eu_eeas , talks about the importance of the EU leading by example to ensure inclusion of #LGBTI people in #SDGs #EDD18 #EU4LGBTI
Almost ready for the session on #LGBTI people and #SDGs with @M_icah and @eu_eeas as part of #EDD18 #EU4LGBTI
💪 Today, let's celebrate the L in LGBTI. It's #LesbianVisibilityDay and the latest video in the @EU_Commission #EU4LGBTI series is out now! Hear Suzi and Krystyna talk about their #family and life in Warsaw! 💕
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"There were always people like us and there always will be." In the latest #EU4LGBTI video, hear Tovaldas' story of growing up as a trans person in Lithuania, and how his grandmother Genovaite's support is so crucial. #TDoR #tdor2017
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