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
door © Bruzz / BELGA Voor gewezen Brussels staatssecretaris en Brussels parlementslid Bruno De Lille (Groen) is het maandag de laatste keer dat hij als gemeenteraadslid de gemeenteraad van de stad Brussel bijwoont. Op 1 september wordt De Lille directeur van...
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...
7 Jun 2020
In 2020 Congo will be independent for 60 years. Independence put an end to 75 years of Belgian interference and domination in Congo. First 23 years as personal property of King Leopold II, and then 52 years as a Belgian colony. Despite the long period since...