From July 4th on we expect a big delegation from Ukraine. Activists come from various LGBTI* organizations: Among them are long-time partners and people we welcome for the first time in Munich, such as representatives of the new Trans* Community Centre in Kyiv. A supporting program will get our...
Last year, Munich was all about Odesa. The international LGBTI* choir festival Q-Fest took place there for the second time and almost 50 Munichers* wanted to be there. They also bravely participated in OdesaPride. Well done! We support our friends* in Ukraine. This year we want to be present...
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...
Ivan lives in the suburbs of Kyiv, left bank, far away from the picturesque streets and parks of the old town. He works as a teacher in a public school. And he hides the fact that he is gay. Ivan shares an apartment with his mother. On Sundays, to...
In autumn, the Munich cultural centre Pasinger Fabrik plans a series of events to mark the 1918 Bavarian Revolution and draws parallels to the upheavals in our neighbouring Ukraine. A revolution took place there in 1918 and then again in the early 1990s, 2004 and 2013/14: “Learning from a...
Parents Initiative TERGO registered in 2013 provides all kinds of help and assistance to parents’ and families of LGBT+ people in Ukraine. Founded just by three mothers of gay sons without much previous human rights activism experience in five years TERGO has grown into a well-established organization, one of...
