Lisbon is an LGBTIQ Freedom City | Interview with Mayor Fernando Medina скачать в хорошем качестве

Lisbon is an LGBTIQ Freedom City | Interview with Mayor Fernando Medina

This interview is part of our series #ProgressiveLocalStories, aiming at raising awareness on the many positive initiatives implemented by progressive cities and regions in Europe. Cities and regions have become laboratories for innovative solutions and, with this series, we want to discover how progressive mayors, councillors and presidents of regions put in place policies to promote and protect LGBTIQ rights. Since March 2019, more than 100 Polish regions, counties and municipalities have adopted resolutions declaring themselves to be free from LGBTIQ “ideology”. In light of the increased discrimination and attacks on the LGBTIQ community, the European Parliament declared the European Union an LGBTIQ Freedom Zone. The PES Group in the European Committee of the Regions is following the same path, working to protect LGBTIQ rights and freedoms across cities and regions. For this reason, we launched a campaign together with Rainbow Rose asking local and regional leaders to officially declare their cities and regions as LGBTIQ Freedom Zones, as done by the City of Lisbon.