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Businesses, LGBTI equality and pinkwashing. Discuss…

Anna Shepherd, ILGA-Europe’s Fundraising Manager

Do businesses have a role to play in advancing LGBTI equality? Debate on this topic really erupted around Europe during Pride season this summer.

Invisibility, exclusion and stigma: LGBTQI sex workers

Tina Kolos Orban, Vice President of Transvanilla Transgender Association, Hungary

Many of us might be wondering what we can do for the rights of sex workers when we, ourselves, are not sex workers. Our guiding principle is “nothing about them without them”.

A Swedish perspective on the “Swedish model”

Cal Orre, RFSL and Nicklas Dennermalm, RFSL Stockholm

RFSL do not believe that criminalising people buying sex or people involved in sex work is of benefit to sex workers and want the Swedish government to revise the law to protect sex workers.

Time for the LGBTI movement to embrace sex workers’ rights!

Luca Stevenson, ICRSE Coordinator

4 steps you can take for greater inclusion of LGBTI sex workers in your work

Why we have a new policy on LGBTI sex work

Evelyne Paradis, ILGA-Europe Executive Director

As ILGA-Europe publish our new policy position on LGBTI sex workers, I want to say a heartfelt thank you to all the LGBTI sex workers’ activists who kept pushing us throughout the years.

Baltic Pride 2018 in Riga – a striking paradox between societal acceptance and political will

Daina Rudusa, ILGA-Europe Advocacy and Programmes Officer

8000 people. 3 political parties. 1 business. This year’s Baltic Pride in Riga was a year of many firsts.

Demonstration and demonisation – life for Georgia’s queer communities

Levan Berianidze, Executive Director of Equality Movement, Georgia.

LGBTQI clubs and bars have played the crucial role in mobilising LGBTQI people, creating a sense of community and belonging both globally and in Georgia.

Therefore, the attacks on these clubs were seen as the attacks on our homes, on the spaces where we can enjoy our freedom and share our love.