Take action!​

Rainbow Welcome! is implemented by five partner organisations but every stakeholder, including you, has a key role to play. So, join the effort and… take action!

Do you also want to express your support for LGBTIQ+ refugees and fight against the discrimination they face?

Share the campaign using the #RainboWelcome hashtag on social media. In this way, you will help to raise awareness of the realities faced by LGBTIQ+ refugees in Europe!

Do you have the power to change things?

Check out our policy paper, it is full of concrete recommendations addressed to the European institutions, member states and reception centres to improve the conditions for LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers and refugees in Europe.

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Arsène

“We need LGBTIQ+ associations in the reception centres. I didn’t have that.”

Judit

“LGBTIQ+ people have specific needs that are invisible because of the cissexism present in the reception system.”

Claudia

“Trans people are vulnerable in a system that does not have a gender perspective adequate to their needs.”

Jean-Loïc

«My partner was lynched by the crowd. Neither the police nor the justice system protected me. I had to flee my country to stay alive.»

Sara

“Take the time to learn about LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers’ specific needs.”

Rajae

“Being a lesbian in Morocco is so taboo that people wonder if it really exists.”

Huguette

“When I was made visible, I had to leave everything, I was threatened with death.”

Rodrigo

“The social network, the basis of inclusion, is built primarily on leisure.”

Jade

“Being visible can serve to liberate me and tell what I want to tell a society that believes there is no transphobia.”

Zein

«We come here to have peace and to live our lives as human beings.»

Adil

“The procedure can take 2, 3 or even 5 years sometimes. During this time we live in stress and fear.”

Emmanuel

«It is necessary to develop reception and accommodation facilities for LGBTIQ+ exiles in order to provide them with inclusive, caring and safe spaces. The multiplication of these centres across France will facilitate their asylum application process and their integration.»

Joana

“I grew up in an environment of hatred, I was surrounded by hatred.”

Hzani

«I was rejected by my family because I am trans. All my life I have been abused and institutions have never protected me.»

Emelyne

“One of the first requests here is for a cocoon, a space to call your own.”

Do you want to get even more involved?

Then share and act in favour of the diversity of gender identities, gender expressions and sexual orientations, and highlight the richness of such diversity in society. Simply become an ally!

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El universo visual de Rainbow Welcome!

La identidad visual de Rainbow Welcome! ha sido desarrollada por Alison Roger France, en colaboración con PLS y todos los socios.

Estudió la complejidad de la sexualidad, las orientaciones sexuales, los géneros, las expresiones de género, las identidades, las características sexuales, la fluidez entre los distintos espectros, etc. También adoptó un proceso de creación reflexivo que incluía el viaje de los refugiados en la vida y en la tierra para llegar finalmente a esas formas orgánicas cuyos nidos, movimientos y texturas pretenden ilustrar la multiplicidad y la complejidad de todos y cada uno de los individuos. Por supuesto, se han utilizado los colores de la bandera LGBTIQ+. El conjunto quiere ser dinámico, intrigante y… positivo. Nuestro mensaje es el de la acogida y la inclusión, como reza nuestro lema « Rainbow Refugiados, ¡BIENVENIDOS!».

Suscríbase a nuestro boletín de noticias.

El universo visual de Rainbow Welcome!

La identidad visual de Rainbow Welcome! ha sido desarrollada por Alison Roger France, en colaboración con PLS y todos los socios.

Estudió la complejidad de la sexualidad, las orientaciones sexuales, los géneros, las expresiones de género, las identidades, las características sexuales, la fluidez entre los distintos espectros, etc. También adoptó un proceso de creación reflexivo que incluía el viaje de los refugiados en la vida y en la tierra para llegar finalmente a esas formas orgánicas cuyos nidos, movimientos y texturas pretenden ilustrar la multiplicidad y la complejidad de todos y cada uno de los individuos. Por supuesto, se han utilizado los colores de la bandera LGBTIQ+. El conjunto quiere ser dinámico, intrigante y… positivo. Nuestro mensaje es el de la acogida y la inclusión, como reza nuestro lema « Rainbow Refugiados, ¡BIENVENIDOS!».