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The Pacific Islands and the Fight for Decolonization of LGBTIQ+ Rights

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Video message (YT) by Ymania Brown, at the Conference “Cultures and Colonialism”, 24 Oct 2024

Talofa lava, kia orana, bula vinaka, and warm Pacific greetings to you all. It is my profound honor to stand before you today, in a foreign country doing the work I do to help decolonise minds and hearts and laws – when in my own country of Samoa—our cherished heart of the Pacific—there is a historic gathering of CHOGM happening right now. The Commonwealth. The heart of Victorian Era laws that criminalise who we love and who we start a family with, laws we are all trying to reverse.

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Postcolonial and decolonial strategies in human rights work — Welcome address by Axel Hochrein

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Konferenz Kulturen und Kolonialismus Axel Hochrein, Copyright: Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung

24 October 2024, Berlin, Refugio, Axel Hochrein, Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation Board

A warm welcome to everyone at the conference “Cultures and Colonialism – Decoloniality and LGBTIQ+ Human Rights”. Thank you for coming, and we are very happy to see the great level of interest. It is an honour for me to open this event, which is part of our “Cultures and Colonialism” project this year. The project was made possible by a year of funding from the Federal Ministry of Justice in response to a resolution by the German Parliament, for which we extend heartfelt thanks.

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The power is still not with us – legal structures of colonial laws and contemporary flaws between the UK and the Caribbean

How a peculiarity of the UK legal system contributes to the discrimination of LGBTIQ+ people in the Caribbean today

The author argues that UK judges have systematically stopped Caribbean independent nations from dismantling the oppressive colonial system.   This short piece shows a structural peculiarity of the British legal system that enables the continuation of colonial attitudes in today’s legal system and reveals structural racism that persists to this day. 

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INVITE: Conference “Cultures and Colonialism ‒ Decoloniality and LGBTIQ+ Human Rights” at Refugio Berlin

24 October 2024, 2–6 pm

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Flyer Konferenz Kuturen und Kolonialismus, Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung

The Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation cordially invites you to the conference “Cultures and Colonialism ‒ Decoloniality and LGBTIQ+ Human Rights”. Topics: the impact of European colonization on queer lifestyles and gender, and practical opportunities for postcolonial project work.

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We will keep on fighting, no matter how hard it gets — Africa’s LGBTIQ+ folk fight colonial-era queerphobia with social media

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Golden Moyo* is a lay preacher in rural Zimbabwe. In 2018, after decades of hiding his sexual orientation, Moyo came out to his family and friends and his parish as gay.

Attitudes to sexual and gender minorities in Zimbabwe are highly conservative. Those found guilty of consensual same-sex sexual activity could face up to one year’s imprisonment and a fine. The southern African country’s anti-homosexuality law was first introduced by the British during its colonisation of Zimbabwe.

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The Anti-Colonial Imperative: Supporting the struggles of LGBTQIA+ people in Africa

The LGBTQIA+ community in Africa faces significant challenges and systemic discrimination, rooted in historical colonial legacies and reinforced by cultural norms and religious beliefs. In seeking foreign aid to safeguard our rights, the LGBTQIA+ community isn’t surrendering to neocolonialism but rather engaging in an anti-colonial struggle for justice and equality.

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Call for contributions to the Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation’s “Cultures and Colonialism” project

2024 Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung Project: Cultures and Colonialism

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“From the Filipino Indigenous community’s babaylan spiritual protectors, who interact with or are a blend of feminine and masculine spirits, to ogbanje individuals in Nigeria, diversity in sexual orientations and gender identities has existed everywhere throughout recorded history.”*

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Germany´s LGBTI inclusion strategy: time for a decolonial turn in development cooperation

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Webtalk and Workshop with the Yogyakarta Alliance and activists from Namibia and Rwanda, April 18, 2024

Three years ago, on March 3, 2021, the German government’s LGBTI inclusion strategy for Foreign Policy and Development Cooperation was adopted. The concept references colonialism and missionary history as important aspects. The concept and this reference are a result of years of advocacy by LSVD, Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation and the Yogyakarta Alliance.

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Faith and Legislation: Unraveling the Role of Religion in Anti-Homosexuality Acts Across Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania

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In the heart of Africa, a storm is brewing within the hallowed halls of legislative chambers, and the tempest is named the Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023. 

Nestled within the intricate legal deliberations of the Constitutional Court of Uganda, the recently enacted legislation whose constitutionality is set to be determined by a court in Uganda has stirred widespread controversy

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Religious freedom can only be ensured if churches are safe spaces for LGBTIQ+ people

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We believe in change 2023, Poster Vorderseite, ©Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung

We live in a world in which there is an unspoken assumption that human rights apply only to heterosexual people. This glaring gap in the protection of human rights also applies to the freedom of religion and belief. It means that the human rights of queer people – lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex (LGBTIQ+) people ‒ are denied or restricted in the name of religion. It means that religion is instrumentalized for purposes of power, and that LGBTIQ+ people are systematically prevented from living their faith. How to change this situation was the focus of “We believe in change”, a project by the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation. Here are the project’s main results, summarized in ten theses:

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