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Queer life

The global queer community is as diverse as the topics that move them. Manifold are the reflections on history and perspectives on queer life today and tomorrow. We’ve gathered some critical snapshots of fluid, queer identity that are colorful, personal and surprising.

Title image for an event on old-age poverty among lesbians

Queer Aging
We only lower our heads to look at our beautiful shoes

How do queer people plan their old age? Sabine Arnolds of the umbrella organization Lesben und Alter explains why older queer people need to be part of Pride and how we can approach one another with respect.

Preparations for the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev 2017: Workers paint the Soviet-era monument "Arch of friendship" in rainbow colours

Secret pleasures
When the Eurovision Song Contest is a Gay Life Coach

Grand gestures, strange fashions and unlikely dramas: Every generation of gay men rediscovers their happiness at the ESC. Peter Rehberg tells of his childhood.

50 Years Stonewall Riots
A New York Revolt and its Consequences

New York, 1969: Drag queens, transvestites, gays, and lesbians, among them many black people, Latinx, and homeless youth. The Stonewall Inn. A raid in the popular bar, but this time around the motley crew resists the police’s brutality.

Reflections on Toronto's Pussy Palace Raid
No-Cop Zone?

Chanelle Gallant reflects on a women's bathhouse raid in Toronto as an example of the longstanding practice of law enforcement as a means of oppression against minorities, especially in the LGBTQ comunities.

Cultural identity and queerness
In the Spirit of Beth: Queering Indigenous Space

Mixed race, Two Spirit person Nicole Tanguay on how cultural representation can be more important than queer identity.

Taking a look at muxeidad
Queer: No. Queer-po muxe: Yes

Next to men and women, some indigenous peoples in the Mexican state of Oaxaca recognize a third gender: the muxe. Lukas Avendaño describes his experiences with the muxeidad.

Montreal's Stonewall
How the Sex Garage Raid Mobilized a Generation of LGBT Activists

In Montreal, following years of institutional discrimination, a broad queer movement mobilized in response to the police raid of the Garage club on July 15, 1990. What can we learn from the aftermath of this police attack on an after-hours party?

The Berlin Design Office Chezweitz
Universes on Demand

The innovative scenography of the exhibition Queer as German Folk comes from the Berlin design office chezweitz, which now supplies the largest and most important museums with its spatial concepts. A home visit.

There is now a third gender category in Germany: ‘divers’, which translates as ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘other’.

Intersex
Gender diversity

At the beginning of 2019, population registers in Germany were amended to include a third gender category. The option box is headed ‘divers’, which translates as ‘miscellaneous’ or ‘other’, and it was introduced for a dual purpose: to remove the burden from parents faced with deciding an intersex child’s future and to show that being different can also be normal.

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Stonewall Moments

Half a century has passed since the revolt on Christopher Street in New York. For half a century now, queer people all over the world have fought for visibility, respect, and equality. It’s also half a century of personal memories that reach all the way to the present. In short videos, different generations recount their “Stonewall moments”.

Playlist: Queer Music

50 years since the Stonewall Riots, 50 songs by queer artists: Our playlist explores the breadth of the queer music scene. The selection was curated by Mason Culkin, who is local advisor to the Goethe-Institut’s Queer as German Folk exhibition in Chicago.

#artbits
Queer As Artsy Folk

Queer Street Art is an integral part of the urban North American scene. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and in keeping with the project Queer As German Folk, we have dedicated our blog #artbits to queer street art with its current series Queer As Artsy Folk!

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Queer as German Folk | Queer Perspectives Queer life

Queer Aging We only lower our heads to look at our beautiful shoes

Secret pleasures When the Eurovision Song Contest is a Gay Life Coach

50 Years Stonewall Riots A New York Revolt and its Consequences

Reflections on Toronto's Pussy Palace Raid No-Cop Zone?

Cultural identity and queerness In the Spirit of Beth: Queering Indigenous Space

Taking a look at muxeidad Queer: No. Queer-po muxe: Yes

Montreal's Stonewall How the Sex Garage Raid Mobilized a Generation of LGBT Activists

The Berlin Design Office Chezweitz Universes on Demand

Intersex Gender diversity