Quarteera

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Quarteera
legal form Registered association
founding 2011
Seat Berlin ( ⊙ coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 4.3 ″  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 59.2 ″  E )
motto Queer in Russian
Queer Russian Proud
purpose LGBT organization
method Education, advice, demonstrations, protests, flash mobs
Website quarteera.de

Quarteera eV is an organization of Russian-speaking lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans * people and their friends in Germany . The registered association was founded in 2011 in Berlin . The name of the organization is a play on words and is derived from the words queer , art and quartier .

First appeared in 2009 Quarteera public in appearance than some activists on the International Day Against Homophobia on May 17 a Rainbow- Flashmob organized. They raised thousands of colorful balloons . The association was officially founded in April 2011, however. An important goal of the association is to work with Russian-speaking queer immigrants and to help them come out in the family. Professional psychological and legal advice is planned for the future.

activity

Quarteera e. V. and the Russian-speaking LGBT community in Germany protested against homophobic laws in Russia at the 2012 Berlin CSD
Quarteera at the Berlin CSD 2012
“We are not propaganda! We are happily married ”- the Quarteera car at the Berlin CSD 2012

Education and information events

From December 18 to 28, 2011, Quarteera held an awareness course on the subject of “ homosexuality and tolerance ” in cooperation with the St. Petersburg LGBT organization “Vychod”, the Russian LGBT network and the feminist lesbian organization “Gender-L” Winter camp for Russian-speaking youth in Saxon Switzerland .

In December 2012, Quarteera published a brochure in German on the situation of gay rights in Russia and the successor states of the Soviet Union with financial support from the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation . In cooperation with the Berlin Gay Museum , Quarteera organized an exhibition on the situation of homosexuals in the Soviet Union and Russia in the summer of 2013.

In 2013 the working group "Enlightenment" was founded in the association. The aim of this working group is to inform Russian-speaking Berliners about lesbians, gays, bisexual and transgender people and thereby counteract prejudice.

Actions, demonstrations and protests

In cooperation with German LGBT organizations, Quarteera organizes various demonstrations and information events in support of LGBT people in Russia and in other countries of the former Soviet Union . In June 2011, Quarteera and the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany organized a demonstration in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin . Member of the Bundestag Volker Beck also took part in the demonstration .

In February 2012, Quarteera activists protested together with representatives of the Russian organization “Rainbow Association”, the international film festival “ Side by Side ”, the LSVD and the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation against the law against “homopropaganda” initiated by Vitaly Milonov in Saint Petersburg . Several German politicians also took part in the demonstration, including the Bundestag member Marieluise Beck .

On June 23, 2012, the Quarteera car drove at the head of the parade for Berlin's Christopher Street Day , which was attended by over 700,000 people. A poster in the style of Pierre et Gilles was created for the parade , which showed the Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev as lovers. Numerous media around the world use this poster to illustrate their contributions to the Berlin CSD 2012. The Russian state television broadcaster Perwy kanal invited a member of Quarteera to take part in a talk show in prime time.

In November 2013, broke the Quarteera activist Vanya Kilber for a few minutes, the speech of the Russian Duma -Abgeordneten Jelena Misulina during the second Compact Conference for sovereignty "For the future of the family!" In Leipzig. Kilber disrupted Misulina's lecture by falling in front of the stage with his hands painted red. With a rainbow flag in hand, he shouted: "Misulina has the blood of homosexual and transsexual youths on their hands who have been killed or who have committed suicide" . The speaker continued while Kilber was complimented out.

In January 2014 Quarteera took part in the debate on the human rights situation in Russia against the background of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in the European Parliament . On February 1, 2014, the German-Russian conference Gold For Equal Rights took place in the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin . Quarteera was one of the organizers of this conference, which was devoted to the situation of LGBT people in Russia.

Every year a rainbow flash mob takes place in several German cities. Colorful balloons are raised on May 17th, International Day against Homophobia . In July 2012, the Quarteera activist Wanja Kilber was awarded the Hamburg Prides Prize for inventing the rainbow flash mob in 2009. Back then, the flash mob took place in more than 30 Russian cities and has now become an international action.

Support for asylum seekers

Quarteera supports people who want to apply for asylum status because of discrimination based on sexual orientation in Germany. The organization helps to find lawyers and to prepare for the talks with the German authorities.

In September 2013, a 26-year-old gay man from Novosibirsk was granted asylum status with the support of Quarteera. This was the first known case in which a homosexual from Russia was granted asylum in Germany because of discrimination on the basis of his homosexuality.

Since the law against "homopropaganda" came into force in Russia, Quarteera has received several inquiries a day asking for help with the asylum procedure. Until November 2013, however, only two people could be helped, a total of twelve cases were processed. However, Quarteera expressly advises Russian LGBT people not to apply for asylum in Germany, but recommends considering other options for emigration, as a successful outcome of the asylum procedure in Germany is hardly to be expected.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Xenija Maximova: Berlin "Quartier" . Germany and Russia ( Goethe Institute ). March 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Ananda Grade: With art against the anti-homosexual law . German wave . August 23, 2013. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Olga Sokolowa: Rainbow apartment . To4ka-Treff ( Goethe-Institut ). July 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2012. ( Russian version )
  4. ↑ a b c d e Xenia Maximova: Rainbow Pipeline and Cardboard Putin . Berlin newspaper . June 20, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
  5. ↑ a b Ольга Кузьменкова: Россия теряет молодых, образованных . Русская планета. November 30, 2013. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 15, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rusplt.ru
  6. ↑ ЛГБТ-организация "Выход", Российская ЛГБТ-сеть, феминистская и ЛГБТ-организация "Гендещр-рганизация" Гендещр-ёюкыженизация " . Российская ЛГБТ-сеть. Archived from the original on February 19, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 15, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lgbtnet.ru
  7. ^ Press conference on the situation of lesbians, gays and transgender people in the states of the former USSR . LSVD . December 13, 2012. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  8. ↑ Alexandra Belopolsky: Queer in Russian: Another home . The daily mirror . September 7, 2015. Accessed December 24, 2015.
  9. ↑ Homophobia: Shame at the Russian Embassy . victory column. June 26, 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  10. ↑ В Берлине прошла демонстрация против петербургского закона о гей-пропаганде . Lenta.ru . February 16, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  11. ↑ В Берлине 200 человек потребовали отменить закон против геев, принятый в Петербурге . NewsBalt. February 16, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  12. ↑ «Геи - идеальный внутренний враг» . Radio Swoboda . February 17, 2012. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  13. ↑ Сергей Ромашенко: Соавтора антигейского закона в РФ Мизулину встретили в ФРГ протестами . German wave . November 24, 2013. Retrieved November 30, 2013.
  14. ↑ a b Дмитрий Волчек: Мизулина и саксонские мракобесы . Radio Swoboda . November 25, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  15. ↑ Annette Langer : "Compact" conference: Krude theses at homophobic event . Spiegel Online . November 23, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  16. ^ The week in the European Parliament: Erdogan in the EP, human rights in Russia and the European semester . European Parliament. January 20, 2014. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  17. ^ Elmar Kraushaar: Berlin Quarteera Association: Gold for equal rights . Berlin newspaper . January 30, 2014. Accessed February 1, 2014.
  18. ↑ Press conference on the situation of LGBT people in Russia as part of the “Gold for Equal Rights” conference . Focus Online. January 15, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
  19. ^ Shortly before Sochi 2014: "Gold for equal rights" in the Rotes Rathaus . radioeins . February 1, 2014. Archived from the original on February 2, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 2, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radioeins.de
  20. ↑ a b Rainbow Flash inventor: Hamburg Pride Award goes to Wanja Kilber . Queer.de. July 30, 2013. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  21. ↑ Юлия Вишневецкая: Гомосексуалы из России ищут убежище за границей . German wave . November 13, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  22. ↑ Татьяна Ковынева: Новосибирский врач получил убежище в Германии, признавшись, что он - гей . КП. October 2, 2013. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
  23. ↑ Анна Петерс, Мария Рюттингер: Как гей из России получил убежище в ФРГ . German wave . November 8, 2013. Retrieved December 15, 2013.
  24. ^ Gregor Gysi: The first gay refugee from Russia . Die Zeit , No. 44. October 24, 2013. Accessed December 15, 2013.

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