Call for Local Anti-Homophobia Meetings

To be held for the 8th time this year, International Anti-Homophobia Meeting will welcome those against homophobia and transphobia in 20 cities between February and May.

 

You can host an event for the 8th Meeting, too!

 

With the help of student groups and academics “Campus Meetings Against Homophobia” reaches more and more universities every year. You can host a meeting in your own campus or city, too.

 

Until now, events were organized in Mersin, Adana, Trabzon, Aydın, Samsun, Eskişehir, Kars, Muğla, Kayseri, İstanbul, Edirne, Antalya, Kırşehir, Van, İzmir, Diyarbakır, Çanakkale, Niğde and Isparta. Besides them, new cities and campuses will organize events this year.

 

“Whose issue is homophobia?”

Anti-Homophobia Meeting is trying to make social dissidence visible on sexism, militarism, nationalism, homophobia and transphobia. Starting off to answer the question “whose issue is homophobia?”, Anti-Homophobia Meeting Coordination said:

 

“When Kaos GL pointed at the link between sexism, nationalism, racism and militarism, the question “whose issue is homophobia?” has been embraced by different groups in academia and civil society. So, student groups and civil society organizations showed up to organize local meetings under Anti-Homophobia Meeting in relation to their own struggles. In this way, homophobia is being discussed even in campuses and cities where LGBT people are still not visible. 

 

For the local parts of Anti-Homophobia Meeting you can contact Umut Güner from Kaos GL:

 

Tel:  0 312 230 0358

E-mail: umut@kaosgl.org

 

Translation: Ömer Akpınar