Federal Association for Gay Policy
The Federal Association for Gay Policy (BAG Schwulenpolitik) is the body responsible for gay policy at Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . It sees itself as the engine of the party's gender equality policy. Together with the Federal Working Group on Lesbian Policy , the BAG Gay Policy is the mouthpiece of gay and lesbian interests in the Greens. This makes it part of the lesbian and gay policy of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen.
structure
As a federal working group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, the BAG Gay Policy consists of two delegates from each regional association and one delegate from each parliamentary group, European parliamentary group and parliamentary group, as well as one delegate from the Green Youth . The delegates are elected by the state working groups and confirmed by the state boards.
The BAG Gay Policy is headed by two speakers who prepare their work and represent the BAG Gay Policy externally. It is entitled to apply at federal party conferences and at the regional council and belongs to Division III Democracy.
According to the statutes and statutes of the party, the working group is exempted from the quota regulation and is permanently secured by this mention.
history
The BAG gay policy has been a recognized body of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 1987. Since then she has played a decisive role in shaping the Alliance 90 / The Greens program through a large number of applications. In the 1990s, the BAG Schwulenpolitik initially successfully campaigned for the abolition of Section 175 of the Criminal Code and for the pluralization of the institutions of gay and lesbian policy. Since 1998 the BAG gay policy has been involved in the implementation of the Red-Green gender equality policy.
Speakers included Volker Beck , Günter Dworek , Farid Müller and Jens Parker .
Political successes
The special successes of the BAG gay policy include the anchoring of the registered civil partnership in the coalition agreement of the first Red-Green federal government in 1998 and the support for the realization of the registered civil partnership in 2001. The expansion of the rights of same-sex couples in 2004 is one of the successes of the BAG gay policy. In 2005, at the request of the BAG gay policy, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen was the first party to include the demand for marriage in their federal election program.
Political goals of the BAG gay policy
The BAG is committed to comprehensive legal and social equality between gays and lesbians. Tasks and goals are:
- comprehensive, effective protection against discrimination by expanding Article 3 of the Basic Law (see also article three ),
- the creation of a legal institution for illegitimate couples,
- an active gender equality policy, with which particularly affected groups such as gays and lesbians coming out or gay and lesbian people in old age are supported,
- a foreign policy that opposes the persecution of gays and lesbians abroad,
- the protection of people who are persecuted because of their sexual identity.
- The opening of marriage for same-sex couples (politically achieved by the Bundestag in summer 2017)
- the full equality of same-sex couples in tax, service and adoption law (was achieved and implemented by law)
- the processing, research and reparation of the persecution of homosexuals, especially during the time of National Socialism and until the liberalization of § 175 StGB in 1969 (was achieved and legally implemented)
Literature & web links
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ Bundestag faction Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen: Lesbian and Gay - Bundestag faction Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . January 1, 1970 ( gruene-bundestag.de [accessed November 10, 2017]).
