La Tortiteca, a migrant-led lesbian dykebrary based in Barcelona, confronted the erasure of lesbian resistance histories amid rising far-right threats across Europe. Their Fight Like a Dyke project surveyed past advocacy strategies […]

VULGAR, a Bucharest-based queer feminist organisation, confronted the hidden traumas sapphics face in Romania’s healthcare system amid rising far-right threats. Their project “Advocating for systematic change to improve services for lesbians” bridged gaps between […]

Romnja Feminist Library, a transnational platform led by Romani lesbians in Bucharest, addressed the double erasure of Romani lesbians from both mainstream LGBTQ+ spaces and Roma advocacy. Their “Where We Belong: […]

Luki Massa tackled a tough truth: lesbians facing disability, neurodivergence, poverty, migration or fatphobia are routinely sidelined even within queer cultural spaces. Their project made intersectional accessibility a political priority […]

DAWA 2.0, a Brussels-based non-profit championing queer and racialised women artists, transformed artistic creation into political resistance against lesbian erasure in performing arts. Their “Caillasses Live” project mobilised an album through slams, podcasts, […]

EL*C’s Strengthening the Lesbian Movement grant-making programme is more than a funding line; it is a collective investment in our communities’ power, creativity and resilience across Europe. From festivals and […]

Proposals due to be debated in Portugal on 19 March and voted on 20 March could pave the way for rollbacks to legal gender recognition, bodily autonomy, and other existing […]

EL*C welcomes explicit recognition and calls for strong action on violence, health, care, economic justice, and democracy The EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community (EL*C) welcomes the new EU Gender Equality Strategy as an overall […]

MARCH 8th 2026. By Carla M. Reale Last spring, during the first Italian Dyke March in Rome, between chants and the collective joy of our slogans, we soon understood that […]

Across Europe, many gender-based violence (GBV) services say they are open to everyone. Yet for lesbian and non-binary survivors, that promise often falters in practice. In Croatia, LORI – Lesbian Organisation […]

Across Europe, violence in lesbian relationships is still too often minimised as a private conflict rather than recognised as gender-based violence. In Bologna, a small but determined collective is challenging that silence. With financial support […]

Imagine a Europe where lesbian and bisexual women, queer and non-binary people no longer have to hide the scars of gender-based violence. That ambition sits at the heart of EL*C’s Grant-Making Programme […]

Imagine a Europe where lesbians and non-binary people do not have to negotiate their safety every time they step into the street, a clinic, a classroom or their own home. That is […]

Imagine policies on violence against women that include lesbians. Not as a footnote. Not as an afterthought. Not as a polite acronym added at the end of a strategy document. But as subjects of protection. […]

Imagine a Europe where no lesbian, bi woman or non-binary lesbian person has to swallow the violence they endure in order to survive it. Where gender-based violence is not filtered through heteronormative assumptions before […]

EL*C Raises Concerns Over Politically Motivated Prosecution and Calls for Due Process On 17 February 2026, the legal qualification of the criminal case opened against LGBTIQ+ activist and feminist leader Zhanar Sekerbayeva was […]

At a time when lesbian lives, voices, and organizing are under growing pressure across Europe and Central Asia, coming together is not only powerful – it is necessary. EL*C invites […]