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Elevating #LesbianGenius in Europe & Central Asia
We are a lesbian, feminist & intersectional network.
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🚨In Kazakhstan, MPs push “anti-LGBT propaganda” laws linking LGBTQI people to “non-traditional values”, pedophilia & demographic decline. This false, dangerous rhetoric echoes pro-Russian ultraconservative narratives. As #ZhanarSekerbayeva said: “Any such law violates the Constitution & our rights”.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🏳️‍🌈Lesbiennale 2025!
🎬 Lesbophobia: A documentary and ten answers

📅 Nov 5th, 18:30 CEST
📍 Muntpunt Library, Pl. de la Monnaie 6, Brussels

🎥 A production by Creación Positiva
🎬 Directed by Inés Tarradellas

#Lesbiennale2025 #lesbian #lesbianvisibility #eurocentralasianlesbiancommunity #feministfilm
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
🚀We’re thrilled to announce it: 🏳️‍🌈 Lesbiennale 2025 is coming!! 👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾

📅 Nov 4th – 21:00 CEST
📍 The Crazy Circle, Brussels
✨ With the participation of Joëlle Sambi

JOIN US!!

#Lesbiennale #lesbianculture #LesbianVisibility #ELC #eurocentralasianlesbiancommunity
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Join us at the New York #LESBIANLIVES Conference 2025 edition. Thank you 🙏 sinister_wisdom for all the organizing (we know how much work it is 😛😗).

From 23 to 25 October
At the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan 🗽
October 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🗣️Dragana Todorović, ELC Executive Director, responds to the question:

❓“What should we do about visible gay and #lesbian people in conservative movements, and should we work with them and the far right?” posed by Olena Shevchenko, co-founder of Insight NGO and EL*C Board member 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾

#Ukraine #kyiv
Part 2 - Dragana Todorović at the First Ukrainian National Lesbian Conference - 2025
YouTube video by EL*C EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community
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October 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🔴 First Panel of the Insight NGO Lesbian Conference: “The Rise of Conservative Movements Around the World and Their Impact on Lesbians”.

🗣️Dragana Todorović, #ELC Executive Director, shares insights on how global conservative shifts are affecting #lesbian communities.

#Ukraine #lesbianvisibility
Dragana Todorović at the First Ukrainian National Lesbian Conference - 2025
YouTube video by EL*C EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community
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October 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
🇪🇺🌈 The new EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy marks a renewal of the European Commission’s political commitment to support LGBTIQ rights, the first version was launched back in 2020.

#lesbianvisibility #humanrights
October 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾 International Lesbian Day 🏳️‍🌈

👉🏽 On October 8, we celebrate International Lesbian Day, and remember with pride and emotion EL*C’s first Lesbian Conference, which took place 8 years ago in Vienna!

#internationallesbianday #lesbianvisibility #herstory #lesbianpride #lesbiancommunity
October 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
‼️ #GretaThunberg detained, humiliated, deprived.

👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾 In wars and occupations, women’s and girls’ bodies are turned into battlegrounds: humiliated, controlled, and weaponized to send a message.

🔴 Silencing activists, torturing prisoners, degrading women: these are tools of authoritarian power.
October 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Here’s the truth: if civil society is dying, lesbian organisations are its rebirth 🌈

✏️: @elc-lesbian-genius.bsky.social diva-magazine.com/2025/10/02/l...
Lesbians at the end of the world
On the possibilities of democracy in Europe’s civil society ruins
diva-magazine.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
‼️ 🇵🇸 Breaking News: Several vessels of the #GlobalSumudFlotilla (@globalsumudflotilla) have been illegally intercepted and boarded by the Israeli navy in international waters.

Among them is the #Alma, which was transporting humanitarian aid (food and medicine) to Gaza.

#stopgenocide #freepalestine
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🌍✨ We’re building the largest lesbian network in Europe & Central Asia.

🤝 A strong transnational community
📢 Increased visibility
🎯 Access to opportunities
💪🏽 Mutual support

Become an EL*C NGO member now: www.surveymonkey.com/r/8P6KMFL

#LCommunity #lesbianvisibility #strongertogether #lesbian
October 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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[🧵 Quick thread of Safe Abortion Day mentions~]
[🧵 Hilo simple de menciones por el Día del Aborto Seguro~]

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🌍 International Safe Abortion Day, we remind Europe that abortion is far from guaranteed.

‼️ Abortion cannot be banned, it can only be made illegal, putting our lives and health at risk.

✊🏽💚 Safe, free, and accessible abortion is a fundamental right.

#SafeAbortionDay #AbortionRights
September 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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“¿Qué tiene que ver El aborto con las lesbianas?” Artículo en @pikaramagazine.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
🗓️ Safe Abortion Day, we raise a question that often comes up: Why do some lesbians still think abortion is not our fight?

👉🏽 5 reasons why abortion rights matter to us as lesbians, as a community.

Follow us on IG: @elc_lesbiancommunity

#SafeAbortionDay #abortionrights #lesbianrights #abortion
September 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
🌍 International Safe Abortion Day, we remind Europe that abortion is far from guaranteed.

‼️ Abortion cannot be banned, it can only be made illegal, putting our lives and health at risk.

✊🏽💚 Safe, free, and accessible abortion is a fundamental right.

#SafeAbortionDay #AbortionRights
September 28, 2025 at 8:43 AM
📢 While the UN Commission of Inquiry recognizes the genocide in Gaza, Israel intensifies its attacks.

🇵🇸 From EL*C, we stand with the Palestinian people, especially with women and children

✊🏽 Enough is enough‼️

#ceasefirenow #stopthegenocide #standwithpalestine
September 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
🚨 #TikTok removes our hashtag #Lesbophobia. In 2020,TikTok admitted restricting LGBT hashtags.These practices silence voices & weaken our fight for rights. For lesbians,TikTok is a megaphone to speak out & denounce lesbophobia. Shadow banning fuels #lesbophobia It’s complicity

#lesbian #humanrights
September 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🚢 Several publicly out lesbians* will be on board the Global Sumud Flotilla, standing for freedom and justice in #Palestine

✊🏽👩🏻‍🤝‍👩🏾 Together, we sail against occupation, genocide, and oppression

#GlobalSumudFlotilla #FreePalestine #solidarity
September 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
‼️ Despite progressive laws, precarious jobs, a feminised school workforce, and lesbophobia persist.

🚨 Far-right anti-LGBT rhetoric in female-majority schools disproportionately targets lesbians.

🕯 Caroline’s tragedy in France + the cases in Italy & Bulgaria remind us: Lesbophobia kills.
September 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
📢 Training: From Ideas to Advocacy – Turning Visions into Strategies for Change

🗓 Sept 18, 2025
⏰ 18:30–20:30 CET📍 Online (Zoom)
✍️ Register by Sept 15: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

What? ⬇️
- Clear understanding of advocacy
- Tools for impactful projects
- Guidance to turn ideas into strategies
September 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
❤️‍🩹🏳️‍🌈 Yesterday, EL*C was present at the tribute to the memory of #CarolineGrandjean, a school principal in France who endured harassment for being a lesbian, harassment that ultimately led to her loss.

#Lesbianism does not kill. #Lesbophobia does.
September 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🚨Paris feminist & lesbian bookstore #Violette&Co faces death threats, harassment, and acid vandalism from the far right for displaying books on Palestine.
This is an attack on all who oppose colonialism, racism & genocide.

At EL*C, we denounce Israel’s genocide in Palestine. ✊🏽🇵🇸 NOT IN OUR NAME!
August 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
BREAKING NEWS: Moroccan feminist activist Betty Lachgar, was arrested after posting a photo wearing an “Allah is lesbian” T-shirt and criticizing Islam, in what is seen as an attempt to silence defenders of equality, secularism, and freedom of conscience.
August 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
🚨 #BreakingNews ‼️ 🇮🇹 Italian Court has ruled that a non-biological lesbian mom has the right to parental leave. A big step for equality and recognition of lesbian families 👩‍👩‍👧💜

📣 #Lesbians won’t stop until full equality is achieved. Let’s keep pushing where politics fail.
July 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM