The Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Family Affairs is funding the project “Working Through Queer History and Memory Work in Rhineland-Palatinate” by medien.rlp – Institute for Media and Pedagogy e.V. with €12,500.
“Especially in times like these, when queer communities face increasing hostility, it is essential to make their perspectives and ways of living more visible,” explained Janosch Littig (Greens), state secretary and the state’s commissioner for LGBTQ+ life and gender identity, in a press release. “It is also important to look to the past, to recognize queer lives there, to present them and document them, in order to protect them and this knowledge today and in the future, and to resolutely counteract revisionist tendencies.”
“The project, Littig said, makes an important building block for protecting the diversity of people in Rhineland-Palatinate.” “For the project’s aim is not only to work through queer history, but also to create spaces for encounter, exchange and education.”
Das Projekt von medien.rlp umfasst verschiedene Dialog- und Rezeptionsformate zur Förderung von Erinnerung, Gleichstellung und Akzeptanz lesbischer, schwuler, bisexueller, trans, inter und nichtbinärer Menschen. Inhalte sind zudem die Veranstaltungsreihe “QueerView”, die Homepage queerview.film und die Geschichts- und Forschungshomepage Zur Aufarbeitung queerer Geschichte in Rheinland-Pfalz. Das Gesamtprojekt ist Teil des Landesaktionsplanes “Rheinland-Pfalz unterm Regenbogen”.
