The Queer Center was conceived in a participatory process on the initiative of the LGBT*IQ Lifestyles Round Table. Just one year after the founding of the Queeres Zentrum Wiesbaden e.V. association, the QZWi was officially opened in the Walkmühle (Bornhofenweg 7a) by Lord Mayor Mende, City Councillor Hinninger and the board.

As a self-declared "queer living room", the QZWi invites people to come together, exchange ideas and get active. In addition to advice, cultural and educational events, the center offers space for personal initiative and for the realization of ideas from the LGBT*IQ community. In addition to associations and groups from the LGBT*IQ community, individuals can also become members of the supporting association.

Warm Wiesbaden has joined forces to make Wiesbaden warmer and to make lived diversity visible. The aim of the association is to provide cultural and leisure activities for people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

WaWi also carries out anti-discrimination and awareness-raising work and is committed to full legal and social equality for LGBT*IQ people. The portfolio is wide-ranging and the cooperation of new people is expressly encouraged.

A full-time and voluntary team is available to all people affected by HIV and AIDS or who are confronted with the topic of HIV and AIDS for various reasons. Professional and respectful advice is offered, both by telephone and in person.

Aidshilfe Wiesbaden is an important link between clients and other organizations. It provides support with a wide range of issues and mediates in the event of problems. Equally important is the telephone and personal contact with other organizations, which find their first point of contact in the first contact person.

Together with many other stakeholders, the youth church KANA is committed to an open approach to sexual and gender diversity in the diocese of Limburg. The aim is to support queer young people and young adults in the process of finding their identity and to give space to their spiritual and social needs. The basis of this work is the encounter with people and their diversity.

As part of the queer community in Wiesbaden, the youth church KANA wants to contribute to a colorful city life and is involved in numerous collaborations and offers.

In workshops with school classes, teenagers and young adults, they have the opportunity to talk to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and trans* people. Using pedagogical methods and evaluated concepts, the volunteer teams introduce the topics in a low-threshold and unagitated manner. They talk about their coming out, their own biographies as well as prejudices, role models and personal experiences of discrimination.

The aims of SCHLAU are

• Recognize and reflect on prejudices and stereotypes
• Raise awareness of the life situation of young LGBT*IQ people
• Making discrimination visible and its mechanisms methodically tangible
• Preventing physical and psychological violence
• Facilitating conversations and making social diversity visible
• Promoting respect and acceptance of gender and sexual diversity
• Teaching skills for engagement against homophobia and transphobia
• Encourage teenagers and young adults to deal confidently with their sexual orientation and gender identity

As a project sponsored by Warmes Wiesbaden e.V. and AIDS-Hilfe Wiesbaden e.V., SCHLAU Wiesbaden is part of the state network SCHLAU Hessen. SCHLAU subdivisions from Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Marburg, Gießen and Kassel are also affiliated to this network.

The project is funded by the Hessian Ministry for Social Affairs and Integration.

Warmes Wiesbaden and AIDS-Hilfe Wiesbaden recognized the need for a service for LGBT*IQ young people back in 2017. The youth group is run by a volunteer and professionally trained team and supported by the Stadtjugendring Wiesbaden. It offers LGBT*IQ young people a community in which they can be among themselves.

Fun games evenings, cooking together or creative work provide time and opportunities to get to know each other and exchange ideas. The group leader is there to listen, offers help with problems and can also call in social education specialists if necessary. Anyone who wants to get involved in the team is just as welcome as young people who would like to take advantage of the offer.

The meetings take place every second Wednesday in the rooms of the KANA youth church (Kirche Maria-Hilf, Kellerstraße 35). Any changes will be communicated via Instagram.

Up-to-date information and contact details can be found on the Warmes Wiesbaden website and the youth group's Facebook page. You can leave a message on the Facebook page "Warmes Wiesbaden e.V. Jugendgruppe". You are also welcome to write to us.

Adolescents in particular who notice that they are more attracted to the same sex when they are growing up are often alone at first and don't dare to talk to anyone about it. Young people who are not in harmony with their physical gender experience a similar situation. They often start out with the fear of being rejected or laughed at. The Bunte Nummer counseling service provides support with the following questions:

• I have the feeling that I am different
• I think I am bisexual / gay / lesbian / trans*
• How do I tell my parents and friends?
• My parents don't understand me
• I am discriminated against and need help
• I would just like to talk to someone about my feelings, but I don't dare.
• The Bunte Nummer team is a competent and neutral point of contact in such situations. The advice is anonymous and free of charge, answers questions about coming out and has a sympathetic ear if no one else will listen.

The Bunte Nummer can be contacted both by telephone (0611 309211)
as well as by e-mail (info@buntenummer.de).

The volunteer team at AIDS-Hilfe Wiesbaden and Warmes Wiesbaden are themselves bisexual, gay, lesbian, heterosexual or trans* and are specially trained in the principles of systemic, solution-oriented counseling. Those seeking help are never pushed in any particular direction. Counseling is unbiased and value-neutral. The counseling hotline is always staffed by one person on a rotating basis. Appointments with specific counselors can be arranged by email.

The self-help group offers trans* people and their relatives a meeting place for exchange and mutual support. In addition, advice is available on the subject of transsexuality or transidentity.

TransAlive is a project of AIDS-Hilfe Wiesbaden e. V. and is not intended to replace therapy by medical or psychological specialists.

The self-help group meets every third Thursday of the month at 6 p.m. in the Queer Center (Bornhofenweg 7a). If you would like to change beforehand, you can come at 5.30 pm.

The professional association VK e.V. - Network for Diversity and Career promotes the professional success of its members - in particular through networking and the exchange of experience. The association advocates a non-discriminatory working and living environment for gay executives and is committed to holistic diversity management in business, administration and organizations.

Founded in 1991, the association has its national office in Berlin. The approximately 700 members are organized in 14 specialist groups and 21 regional groups. Lesbian businesswomen are organized in a separate association, the Wirtschaftsweibern.

ILSE is a group of families with children aged between zero and eleven. The families have come about in different ways (biological children, foster children, adopted children) and have different parental constellations: lesbian mother couples, gay father couples, lesbian mothers and gay fathers as co-parents, and so on.

In the group, all topics concerning rainbow families can be discussed and the children have the opportunity to meet families with similar origin stories. ILSE is also a point of contact for couples who want to have children and for mothers and fathers on their way to coming out (with their children regardless of age) and passes on experience and knowledge on all topics relating to parenthood and family. ILSE also ensures the visibility of rainbow families at joint activities and community events such as CSD Wiesbaden.

The contact persons for LGBTI*Q also act as a link between the LGBT*IQ community/organizations and the police in order to promote trust and dispel reservations.

A large number of violent acts are not reported to the police and can therefore hardly be prevented in the future because the perpetrators feel safe and will commit further acts without fear of prosecution.

There are two contact persons for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer lifestyles (LGBTI*Q) in the area of the West Hesse police headquarters (state capital Wiesbaden and surrounding districts). They are available at all times to support and advise victims of homophobic and trans-hostile violence.

Chief Superintendent Florian Meerheim
Phone +49 611 3451516
E-mail: rainbow.ppwhpolizei.hessende

Police Chief Superintendent Victoria Willich
Phone +49 611 3451516
E-mail: rainbow.ppwhpolizei.hessende