28 Sep 2020
‘Are you for the girls or for the boys?’ I was in second or third grade when two girls on the playground walked up to me and asked me the question. From then on there was only before and after. The two girlfriends didn’t realize it but they changed...
13 Aug 2020
The Polish government uses the LGBTI+ movement as a scapegoat for anything that goes wrong. The president and his supporters want to turn all of Poland into an LGBT-free zone and the police are cracking down on the LGBTI community. “Let #PolishStonewall lead to...
4 Aug 2020
The redder an area’s colour on our government’s corona lists, the more I feel like going there. You know that feeling? The forbidden fruit. I had never heard of the Severoiz tours in Bulgaria or Southern Muntenia in Romania, but ever since the Foreign Office...
22 Jul 2020
COVID-19 still holds the world in its grip, and yet it’s good and perhaps even necessary to look ahead at the post-corona era. At ‘the new normal’, as it is also called. The LGBTI+ community in particular needs to prepare itself. There are people who see this health...
30 Jun 2020
“Relying on your gut feeling is not enough,” Bruno De Lille writes. If we want to be a society where every LGBTI+ person can be open and feel safe, we have to fight macho behaviour and the entrenched patterns of thinking about ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’....
29 Jun 2020
Last Saturday I watched the Global Pride. Because most of the Pride parades had been cancelled, a virtual Global Pride was set up that showcased performances, movies and speeches by LGBTI+ activists from all over the world. A wonderful initiative that showed how it...
