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Björn van Roozendaal, ILGA-Europe Programmes Director

We wanted to tell the story of activists and what their needs are. Our new fuding report is the first step...

By John O’Doherty, director of the Belfast-based Rainbow Project.

This guest post charts the LGBTI movement in Northern Ireland's campaign for equality.

Björn van Roozendaal, ILGA-Europe Programmes Director

Political leaders, decision makers and foundations need to hear one clear message: supporting human rights work is now more important than ever. Resources have to increase, not decrease.

By Henning Mikkelsen

“And don’t forget your condoms!” You have heard it forever, and probably practised it quite a bit - European gay and bisexual men are among the most experienced condom users in the world. Indeed, condoms are a blessing, and they have stopped millions of HIV and sexually transmitted infections. 

By Drashko Kostovski & Irene Donadio, International Planned Parenthood Federation - European Network (IPPF EN)

By Tony Furlong, METRO Charity

Access to information around our sex lives and sexual health can be thought of in two distinct areas: 

By Esther Dixon Williams & Nikos Dedes, European AIDS Treatment Group

By Tawseef Khan, Lawyer and Activist

By Hida Viloria, author and activist

Today is Valentine’s Day, devoted to the celebration of romance and sexual pleasure, but the first thing that comes to mind when I think about it in an intersex context is how much our ability to experience these things has been compromised by prejudiced practices. It helps to realise that we are not alone: humans in power have attempted to limit others’ pleasure for centuries. 

By Lisa Power

It's St Valentine's Day, one of the least saintly saint's days in the Christian calendar, when Europeans of all faiths and none struggle out of our winter thermals and into something slinky in hopes of romance.