Tel Aviv party in Cologne Gay games 2010

Rainbow Bridge - Berlin-Cologne-Tel Aviv

A project for diversity and tolerance - against homophobia and hate violence.

An attack shook Israel and Europe .On the evening of the first August 2009 had entered a masked person the cellars of the "Gay and Lesbian Association (Agudah) in Tel Aviv and shot with an assault rifle at the people there are staying.

 The "rainbow bridge" After the attack MANEO Project Bastian Finke began with the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees responsible to the City Council in Tel Aviv in touch to discuss the possibility of an invitation to the victims of the attack in Berlin. The initiative was welcomed. After consulting with Tom Schreiber it has developed into the project "Rainbow Bridge". In the further planning, it was decided that representatives of anti-violence projects, the police and the City Council of Tel Aviv to be invited, engaged in anti-homophobia and hate violence.

The project "Rainbow Bridge" wants a bridge between the scenes in Tel Aviv lesbischschwulen build Berlin, Potsdam and Cologne totally dedicated to the strengthening of mutual exchange, understanding and solidarity process. The two-week stay in Germany meeting now takes place in August 2010.

In addition to a program for officials of projects, police and city council finds a youth held with young people from Berlin and with young people from Tel Aviv, who survived the horrific attack in Tel Aviv. For 2011, a return visit in Tel Aviv in planning. The "rainbow bridge" wants future work on other, städteübergreifenden projects in Europe and beyond. The aim is to exchange experiences, ideas and approaches in the anti-violence work, and to promote social tolerance and diversity.

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