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Pink Life QueerFest Capacity Building

November 2023 - November 2024
ANKARA

Pink Life QueerFest has been Turkey’s first and only LGBTI+ themed film festival since 2011.

Within the scope of the project, the Pink Life LGBTI+ Solidarity Association aims to archive the history of QueerFest in its 12th year, establish an advisory board for the festival, and improve its communication strategy by renewing its institutional identity. It also aims to strengthen the festival’s international network and reach, thereby enhancing its capacity.

 

Pink Life LGBTI+ Solidarity Association

Being Turkey's first trans rights association, Pink Life LGBTI+ Solidarity Association was established in Ankara on June 30, 2006. Carrying out projects on matters such as discrimination, hate crimes, violence and social exclusion against trans people and providing direct support services, Pink Life LGBTI+ Solidarity Association continues its advocacy activities both nationally and internationally.

It continues its advocacy activities both in the parliament and at the international level in order to add gender identity and sexual orientation expressions into the Constitution and to end discrimination, and ensures that the necessary materials reach all parliamentarians in Turkey.

Pink Life provides free consultancy services on legal, educational, health and gender harmonization processes. It acts in solidarity with rights-based organizations and activists operating in aforesaid areas. Pink Life organizes the “Trans Camp” where trans people from Turkey come together to talk about their problems and seek solutions. In addition, Pink Life established a clothing bank in Eryaman in the name of Dilek İnce, who was killed by gangs during her struggle against gangs. Dilek İnce Clothing Bank supports LGBTI+ people in need, especially those in prisons, by sending them clothes every 3 months.

Pink Life also organizes Turkey's first LGBTI+ films festival, Pink Life QueerFest. While the festival draws attention to discrimination and violence against LGBTI+ individuals, it allows queer theory and art to be discussed in Turkey.

Connections:

https://twitter.com/pembehayatlgbti 
https://www.instagram.com/pembehayatlgbti 
https://twitter.com/kuirfest 
https://www.instagram.com/kuirfest/ 

This page is published on 7 December 2023.

TAGS: ANKARA

This website was created and maintained with the financial support of the European Union.
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