Nationwide, the victims of National Socialism are commemorated this Friday. There was a commemoration in the Bundestag. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) also took part. The focus of the commemoration was on people who were persecuted by the National Socialists because of their sexual orientation or identity.Bundestag President Bärbel Bas opened the special event in Parliament. "Many in Germany think we've already dealt with the Shoah enough," she said. That is a mistake. "There can...
Status: 01/23/2023 5:50 p.m Love is love - this could be the verdict of the Court of Human Rights in simplified terms. Lithuania had stopped selling a children's book with fairy tales about same-sex couples. Now the state has to pay compensation. By Gigi Deppe, ARD legal department She was only 44 years old, the author of "Amber Heart". But the book by the Lithuanian activist Neringa Dangvydé Macaté is still occupying the courts. She published the book in 2013....
Lysander Wöhler found a shelter in the Munich Diversity Youth Center. As the youngest board member and non-binary person, he is now working there to expand this safe and non-discriminatory space.In the neutral toilets of the Diversity Youth Center there is also a urinal and free tampons and pads on the wall next to the washbasin. The frequently discussed toilet problem is solved here with casual elegance. Lysander Wöhler, 23, is on the board here. Through his own experience as...
The element of language is the fluid, believes Kim de l'Horizon. It is the "sluggish, the deep, the latent, the carrying, sweeping, surging, the drowning, storing, giving life, inexhaustible, reflecting, harboring monsters, dissolving". According to the novel "Blood Book", writing is also a wavy line, "a wave coming from afar, which began long before me and will continue to flow long after me".Kim de l'Horizon has already carried this wave of writing a long way, including winning the German and...
Fresh arrests have been made in Kenya in the investigation into the murder of an LGBTQ rights activist, which has sparked national outcry and international condemnation, local media reported on Sunday. The body of Edwin Chiloba, a 25-year-old designer and model, was found Wednesday in a trunk on the side of the road in the Rift Valley (west). According to a police source who requested anonymity, the victim was "strangled" after being "tortured".On Friday, police said they had arrested a...
A suspect has been arrested after the murder in Kenya of an LGBTQ rights activist, whose body was discovered in a metal trunk, sparking a national outcry, police said on Friday.The body of Edwin Chiloba, a 25-year-old designer and model, was found on the side of the road some 40 km from the Rift Valley town of Eldoret on Wednesday, according to local media.In Kenya, LGBTQ people face precariousness and discrimination in a predominantly Christian and conservative society where homosexuality...
Status: 06.01.2023 8:47 p.m Kenyan police have arrested a suspect following the violent death of a prominent Kenyan fashion designer and LGBTQ activist. Traces also pointed to even more participants. Police in Kenya have arrested a suspect following the death of LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba. According to initial investigations, it was a long-time friend of the dead man, said chief investigator Peter Kimulwo. Traces also indicated that there were more involved. The body of Kenyan fashion designer and gay rights...
Status: 06.01.2023 18:03 Kenyan police have found the body of a well-known Kenyan fashion designer and LGBTQ activist. Edwin Chiloba was apparently the victim of a violent crime. The investigations have been started. Police in Kenya have launched an investigation into the death of an LGBTQ activist. The body of Kenyan fashion designer and gay rights activist Edwin Chiloba was found in a metal box on a road in Uasin Gishu district in the west of the country. The Kenya...
Motorsport World Federation No sign against racism, no LGBTQ+: Formula 1 restricts political messages to drivers Ahead of the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel knelt in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement while wearing a rainbow-colored shirt ©Florion Goga / DPA Formula 1 is tightening the reins: in the future, drivers should no longer be tolerated if they set political signals on a race weekend. Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel in particular had recently used the public stage....
US President Joe Biden has it Respect for Marriage Act signed and thus enshrined in law the protection of same-sex marriages at federal level. Marriages entered into in other US states must therefore be recognized in all states, even if same-sex couples are not allowed to marry there. Also, marriage is no longer defined as a union between a man and a woman."Today is a good day. A day when America takes a decisive step toward equality, liberty and justice,...
