Transgender people are exposed to various prejudices in everyday life. Many people associate the word "trans" alone with several characteristics that either do not apply at all or only in part. Classic prejudices with which transgender people are confronted again and again are: ...

AGG" is the abbreviation for the "General Equal Treatment Act". As the name suggests, it is intended to protect people from discrimination in a wide variety of areas of life. However, even if the ...

What does the "Q" in LGBTQIA+ actually stand for? Especially those who have perhaps not yet become too involved with the community and the many different "nuances" may have asked themselves this question a time or two in the past.

Pansexual people can feel love and sexual attraction for all genders. They do not desire the sex per se, but the person - regardless of what sex characteristics he/she is endowed with, or what he/she perceives himself/herself to be....

Classical heterosexuality is based on the fact that there are only two sexes. A person who loves or desires women as a man or a woman who loves or desires men is considered heterosexual. Many feel heterosexuality even in today's ...

The abbreviation "CSD" ("Christopher Street Day") is used to describe events where often millions of people gather in one place to take to the streets for the rights of the LGBTQIA+ community. The highlight is often ...

There are still many prejudices around asexuality. People who are asexual are often called "incapable of relationships" and "not normal" by many who do not know any better. Statements like these are not only wrong, but also very ...

There are different ways to describe bisexuality. But strictly speaking, they all mean the same thing. Some bisexual people would certainly say of themselves that they are attracted to both women and men. Others would describe themselves as being "attracted ...

Intersexual people are also called "intersexual" among other things. They have physical sex characteristics that cannot be categorized as either "female" or "male". In this context, there is often talk of so-called "physical variations". Often, not only ...