Frankfurt

Goal

The City of Frankfurt wants all their inhabitants to live without discrimination and take part in an open and equal dialogue. The Coordination Unit cross-links the LGBTIQ communities, municipal bodies and the wider public with each other by supporting their initiatives and it stimulates an intersectional perspective, e.g. the inclusion of migrant LGBTIQ people in community events or the inclusion of Trans* perspectives in the development of municipal forms.  

Policy

The LGBTIQ policy is part of the integration and antidiscriminatory policy of the city. The Coordinating Unit for LGBTIQ Topics is situated in the Department of Multicultural Affairs and staffed with two parttime employees. The work was initiated in 2005, including a round table on lesbian and gay issues. Since 2013 the City has invited all Pride organisers to a reception honouring their work and flies the rainbow flag from city hall during Pride Week. The Coordination Unit started their work in November 2015. Frankfurt am Main was the first city in Germany to establish a department working on integration in 1989. 

Key focus areas

  • Detect and name blind spots in current LGBTIQ work in Frankfurt am Main
  • Establish a network with local LGBTIQ NGOs and communities
  • Link LGBTIQ NGOs with municipal bodies
  • Organize integrative and inclusive events around IDAHOT and Pride 
  • Stimulate intersectional dialogue  

Collaboration partners

The coordination unit currently works with lesbian and gay sport clubs like Artemis Sport Frankfurt e.V.  and FVV Frankfurter Volleyball Verein , LGBTIQ interest and counselling organisations like LIBS e.V. . the culture center LSKH run by LLL e.V. , trans* interest groups like Transident e.V. SHG Frankfurt  and Dgti , LGBTIQ refugee groups, LGBTIQ migrant services like DIB e.V. , lesbian and gay teachers like AG LesBiSchwule Lehrer_innen in der GEW , HIV prevention organisations like AIDS Hilfe Frankfurt, pride organisiers like CSD Frankfurt e.V. , LGBTIQ students, job related interest groups like Völkinger Kreis , Wirtschaftsweiber or Rainbow at Fraport , LGBTIQ anti-violence projects like Broken Rainbow , cultural projects like the queer cinema experts Kinothek Asta Nielsen  and many institutions that work on LGBTIQ inclusion, for example caring for older members of the LGBTIQ community (e.g. Frankfurter Verband) or services for sexworkers like KISS – Kriseninterventionsstelle für Stricher  

In addition, the unit collaborates with other communal LGBTIQ offices in Germany and the Ministry for Social Affairs and Integration in Hesse and the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency.