LGBT*I*Q community? Together, side by side or against each other? „QuPiD – Queer Pathways into Diversity“ 2nd meeting in Warsaw 23. – 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