Living library: Learning from each other, fighting together

Ukrainian LGBTIQ* activists talk about their lives in Ukraine, their experiences with the community in Munich and their plans for the future. Friday, 8 November 2024, 7 p.m., at LeZ

Learning from each other, fighting together. This is the motto under which Munich Kyiv Queer has been inviting queer people from Ukraine to the ‘Volunteers Workhop’ in Munich for years. The focus: volunteering. The goal: to convey what the community can achieve thanks to the commitment of its volunteering members!

During the one-week workshop, our guests will also have their say. During the open bar at LeZ, four lesbians and one non-binary person from the cities of Odesa, Vinnytsa and Dnipro talk about their lives in Ukraine, what they have experienced in Munich, and how they imagine their future. In the past, the meetings with like-minded people from Munich have repeatedly inspired our Ukrainian friends to make concrete plans for their work in their own community.

Making world events personally tangible

Queer people are a vulnerable group and have a hard time everywhere, especially in Ukraine, which is currently fighting for its existence. The format of the Erzählcafé offers an opportunity to make complex, sometimes distant world events more accessible through personal exchange. Through storytelling, people can reflect on their life experiences, contextualise them and compare them.

Come and listen, questions are welcome!

Erzählcafé LGBTIQ* activists from Ukraine tell about their lives
When Friday, 8 November 2024, 7 pm
Where Lesbisch-Queeres Zentrum LeZ, Müllerstraße 26
Organisers Gay Alliance Ukraine, LeZ, Munich Pride, Munich Kyiv Queer, Cultural Department of the City of Munich

This is how you can donate

INDIVIDUAL HELP Munich Kyiv Queer has its own fundraising campaign via https://www.paypal.me/ConradBreyer to support queer people in Ukraine who are in need or on the run. Why? Because not all LGBTIQ* are organised in the local LGBTIQ*-groups. This help is direct, fast and free of charge if you choose the option “For friends and family” on PayPal. If you don’t have PayPal, you can alternatively send money to the private account of Conrad Breyer, speaker of Munich Kyiv Queer, IBAN: DE427015000021121454.

All requests from the community are meticulously checked in cooperation with our partner organisations in Ukraine. If they can help themselves, they take over. If the demands for help exceed their (financial and/or material) possibilities, we will step in.

HELP FOR LGBTIQ* ORGANISATIONS To support LGBTIQ* in Ukraine we have helped set up the Alliance Queer Emergency Aid Ukraine, in which around 40 German LGBTIQ* Human Rights organisations are involved. All these groups have access to very different Human Rights organisations in Ukraine and use funds for urgently needed care or evacuation of queer people. Every donation helps and is used 100 percent to benefit queer people in Ukraine. Donate here

VULNERABLE GROUP And here you can find out why queer people in war need our support.

Questions? www.MunichKyivQueer.org/help

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