(Video with English subtitles) On March 19, BFM TV, France’s first information TV channel, interviewed Alice Coffin on EL*C‘s actions at the Polish border to help lesbian refugees. Alice talked about our actions and what Insight LGBTQ NGO with Olena Shevchenko are doing in their LGBT shelter in Lviv. On the pictures displayed on the TV piece: Helena Vukovic, Dragana

Originally publish by LOUIMEDIA in French on March 12th 2022   By Evgenia Giakoumopoulou (1) First minutes of “calm” in days, the opportunity to finally write a few lines. This calm is the slow wait at the Polish-Ukrainian border crossing to deliver basic necessities to Lviv, a city in the west of the country where Ukrainians fleeing the fighting are

PLEASE DONATE: WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY IN UKRAINE, AT THE BORDERS AND BEYOND – NO CONTRIBUTION IS TOO SMALL! EL*C is operating at the borders with Ukraine providing emergency support and housing, supplying essential goods and services, but also ensuring long-term solutions for refugees through our lesbian hosting network, as well as organising humanitarian aid for

EL*C has always put great attention in highlighting the issues faced by lesbians in healthcare. Healthcare systems that take into account and respond to lesbians’ needs is one of EL*C strongest demand. The present report is a summary of the findings, data and information that we were able to collect in these years of work and collaboration with researchers, activists,

Job title: Finance and Administration Manager  Contract duration: 1 year contract (with the possibility of extension) Yearly salary: 48.000,00 EUR (Gross II) Working hours: full time (40 hours a week)  Based in: Europe or Central Asia Work space: remote (all EL*C staff work remotely)  EL*C Presentation: The EL*C – EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community is a non-governmental organisation, representing the needs of

Job title: Media, Journalism and Communications Dykerector  Contract duration: 1 year contract  (with the possibility of extension) Yearly salary: from 48.000,00 to 66.000 EUR (Gross II) Working hours: full time (40 hours a week)  Based in: Europe or Central Asia Work space: remote (all EL*C staff work remotely)  EL*C Presentation: The EL*C – EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community is a non-governmental organisation,

Brussels, World Capital of Lesbian Art The first Lesbiennale will be held from 8 to 10 October in Brussels.  The Lesbiennale – a contraction of the words ‘lesbian’ and ‘biennial’ (biennial contemporary art exhibition) – will showcase the works of some 220 artists in major venues in the Belgian capital, which has been renamed the ‘World Capital of Lesbian Art’

In March 2021, a coalition of European networks working on LGBTI rights and including ILGA- Europe, EL*C, TGEU, OII Europe and EGLSF submitted to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe a briefing note on violence and discrimination against LBTI women in sport. The PACE has drawn attention to gender-based violence and discrimination in sports for many years and

JOB DESCRIPTIONS – Advocacy and Research Manager  Job title: Advocacy and Research Manager Contract duration: permanent-unlimited Monthly salary: 2.000,00 EUR (Gross II) Working hours: half time (20 hours a week) Location: Europe or Central Asia   EL*C Presentation: The EL*C – EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community is a non-governmental organisation, representing the needs of lesbian, queer, bi and trans women and of

In March 2020, in a context of insecurity and fear linked to the COVID-19 pandemic spreading globally including in Europe and Central Asia, EL*C decided to react by organising an online space for lesbians to exchange information on the ongoing situation and its many repercussions. This online space, coined ‘LLL – Locked-down Lesbians Listening’, was open seven days per week

Translation of the Article in L’Obs and AFP, Published on 28 May 2021. On Friday 28 May, the Paris Criminal Court sentenced a man to 14 years in prison for “rape on the grounds of sexual orientation” of a lesbian woman.   In March 2020, Jeanne’s attacker (whose name was changed at her request) was sentenced to 15 years by