LGBT*I*Q community?Together, side by side or against each other?

„QuPiD – Queer Pathways into Diversity“2nd meeting in Warsaw

23. – 26.02.2014

Situation in Germany and at the Akademie Waldschlösschen

Situation in Germany

• 1970s: – 2nd Gay Liberation Movement (2. deutsche

Schwulenbewegung)– Lesbian Liberation Movement

• Fusion with the Women Liberation Movement• Lesbian Feminism

– Separation between Lesbians and Gays?

• 1980s: Institutionalisation:– Gays: 1986 BVH (Bundesverband Homosexualität),

Akademie Waldschlösschen, Student Organisations

– Lesbians: 1982 Lesbenring, 1982 Lesben-Fühlingstreffen (Lesbian Spring Meeting), Student Organisations (student departments)

– Foundation of transidentitas e.V.: counselling, public relations, congresses, self-help goups

• 1990s:– LSVD (started as SVD and later opened itself for

lesbian members)– Subculture took an important role: serving

identities as well as political movements– Trans*: differentiation of supplies– „queer“ came up as a academic and political term

• 2000s:– Trans*: 2006 TRIQ, trans*conferences in Munich,

Berlin and Gießen– Inter*: Verein für Intersexuelle Menschen e.V.;

network of individuals– Queer: Student organisations name themself

queer (QueerReferatHamburg)• Term of alliances?• What does it mean, working all together with own

topics?

The situation at the Akademie Waldschlösschen

• Found as a gay adult education centre– Found to host gay network meetings as well as

seminars for gays– At the beginning (1980s): not an explicit lesbian

activities– 1990s: first efforts to cooperate

• Processes which are going on:– September 2011: Workshop on „Out in Europe –

reflecting sexual biographies“• Learning point: LGBT*Q Adult Education

– Juvenescence of staff: focussing on new topics, trying to focus on other groups; networking

– Invitation to a trans*networking meeting for trans*organisations in Germany in 2013• Organisation of the meeting• Making appointments for the network to grow

• Why wasn‘t the Akademie Waldschlösschen successfull in organizing lesbian seminars as well as seminars for trans* and inter* seminars?– No represantatives in staff stucture?– No funding by government