Many thousands of homosexual men in Germany were sentenced to prison terms of up to five years under Paragraph 175 of the Penal Code. Enacted in 1871, with the creation of the modern German nation, this law against “unnatural vice between men” was toughened in the Nazi era and later...
Body, identity – for a long time now, our societies have been struggling with these issues, and all too often the result is fear and rejection of all that is different. This online exhibition, curated by Kateryna Pidhaina from Kyiv, brings together a number of artists – including queer...
You’d like to sing, but your choir can’t meet up to rehearse? You want to meet people from other countries, but you’re not allowed to travel? Then we have the solution for you: our international Three Cities Online Choral Meet-Up with singers from Edinburgh, Munich, Kyiv and beyond. We’ll...
Do you want to keep moving this winter? But you need a bit of extra motivation to #BeatLockdownLethargy? We at Munich Kyiv Queer are running a “Three City Challenge” with our friends from LEAP Sports in Edinburgh, and invite you to take part. More EMU? If you like to...
It all began in the summer of 2012, when three LGBTI* activists from Munich’s twin city Kyiv travelled to Munich to attend the city’s Christopher Street Day as guests of honour. That year, the motto of the largest LGBTI* community event in southern Germany, at which thousands of lesbians,...
For the benefit of the Queer Home in Kyiv, Philhomoniker, Munich’s gay choir number 1, and the new choir Isartonics will invite you to a benefit concert. Queer Homes are small community centres where Ukraine’s local LGBTI-community volunteers for activities such as self-help and leisure groups, cultural as well...
The social pedagogue, author and activist Stephanie Gerlach (photo) has been coaching and lecturing on same-sex lifestyles for 25 years now; rainbow families are her main focus. Gerlach has published three books, each with several editions, and numerous specialist articles on the subject. She co-founded the LesMamas association and...
Join us at the 2-day International Conference on Inclusive Education and Countering Bullying in Schools. The conference consists of panels and a series of thematic workshops on bullying and violence in schools in Ukraine and abroad, national experience in bullying counteraction, creating a safe school environment, raising awareness among...
The XIIth National LGBT Conference of Ukraine deals with ways of cooperation within the community: solidarity among each other for equal rights. The three-day event “The path to Equality: changing the country together” will take place in Kyiv with international participation. More here! Munich Kyiv Queer also presents itself...
Friends for life. As every year we support OdesaPride, which is organized by the NGO Gay Alliance Ukraine. A small Munich delegation has always been participating in the “March of Equality”. This year, it will be much bigger as many LGBTI* activists from Munich will attend Q-Fest, the LGBTI*...
The Stonewall Riots mark the beginning of the LGBTI-movement as we know it today. Much has been achieved by the community from west to east since then, but isn’t that all in danger again? By populism, a shift to the right? We talk to activists* from the very beginning,...
For many years now we have been inviting LGBT-activists* from our twin city Kyiv to Munich Pride. We organize an extensive delegation program for our guests, they visit the largest LGBT-organizations in Munich, take part in the Pride Week program, meet important representatives of the city like Lord Mayor...
As every year, Munich’s LGBTI-community will send a delegation to Kyiv. We do not travel on our own, we have our back strengthened by the city council. If everything works ok, Munich’s Lord Mayor, Dieter Reiter, will support us again and send city councillor Dominik Krause as a delegate...
Human Rights above everything! We plan to organise an exchange of young LGBTI-activists, preferably volunteers, with two encounters between people of Ukraine and Bavaria in both countries. The main themes of the project will be to inspire and strengthen the cooperation between our two countries’ LGBTI-organisations and activists, to...
Learning from each other – that has always been the motto of our cooperation. Ukrainians and Munichers, people from completely different cultural backgrounds, have a lot to share. Together we want to achieve more for the LGBTI- movement in both countries and therefore we regularly offer workshops. “Volunteering in...
