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Attacks against LGBTIQ people are on the rise in Europe.

Follow us live from Vienna as we talk about how to protect and strengthen 🏳️‍🌈 rights.
Join @IratxeGarper @RobertBiedron @MarcAngel_lu @schieder @RainbowRose_PES now: socialistsanddemocrats.eu

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Defending LGBTIQ rights is a fight for our future, @IratxeGarper opening our event

As a political family we are proud of what we have achieved for🏳️‍🌈people.

We're working to make sure that they enjoy the same rights as anyone else. We are at their side and we support them.

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We need to continue to build a Europe that is safe and free.

In times of war we need to work for a Europe where everyone can love who they love.

@IratxeGarper at our event in

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I come from Poland. 30% of Poland is "LGBTI-free zones".
I thought zones free of something were only in the textbooks. But that is not the case.

Someone somewhere decided that LGBTIQ people are not as human as others.
@RobertBiedron

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This is today's Europe. A Europe of inequality. Where our citizens still don't have equal rights.

We, as progressives, have this special duty not to tolerate this stuation. We have a moral obligation to globalise human rights. This is our duty.

@RobertBiedron

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We're here in Vienna, so I finish with the words of Concita Wurst:

We are here, we are queer. Get used to it- because we are unstoppable!

@RobertBiedron

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It's important to have many allies, says @MarcAngel_lu.
We have allies in this room, in the LGBTI intergroup. Allyship is essential.

When this resolution declaring the EU an LGBT freedom zone, we had 498 out of 705 MEPs votes for that resolution.
A day where I felt not alone.

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We have a very diverse situation in Europe, says @Camila_Garfias.
We do have countries with good laws, where social acceptance is high.
But we do still have issues in those countries, especially for our most vulnerable community, the trans community.

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Our strength as a political family is that whenever there is an issue that hurts us, that damages one of us, the rest support each other, says Ana Pirtshkalava of @YESocialists.

We are not a single-issue movement. We are intersectional, we are international.

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Whenever we talk about LGBT rights on social media, people comment - don't you have any other problems? We do but all problems are interlinked.

The social democratic movement wants a good life for everyone. Irrespective of class, gender, age, sexual orientation.
@schieder

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