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Hate speech and hate crimes against LGBTIQ+ people have intensified across Europe. As ILGA-Europe’s Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of LGBTI People in Europe and Central Asia shows, the year 2022 was the most violent one for LGBTI people across the Eurasian region in the past decade, both
By: Lila Milikj, founder of TransFormA When it comes to speech and acts of hate towards the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) community, specifically towards one of the most marginalised groups – transgender people, the media rarely pay enough attention. On the other hand, if the event
By Matija Stefanović In a world that still deeply imposes cis-het as the only acceptable norm, most trans people do not have the privilege of coming out early but rather manage to come out as teenagers or young adults or even later in life. This creates an interesting and, in
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ERA – LGBTI Equal Rights Association for Western Balkans and Turkey is a Regional Association of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer organizations from Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.