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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:
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LGBT*I*Q community?Together, side by side or against each other? „QuPiD – QueerPathwaysintoDiversity“ 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 (BundesverbandHomosexualität), AkademieWaldschlösschen, Student Organisations • Lesbians: 1982 Lesbenring, 1982 Lesben-Fühlingstreffen (Lesbian Spring Meeting), Student Organisations (student departments) • Foundation of transidentitase.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*: VereinfürIntersexuelleMenschene.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
Processeswhich 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