EL*C - EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community
Budget
€1,645,155
EP Access
2
accredited persons
Staff
2
1.25 FTE
EU Grants
€1,081,216
Mission & Goals
The EuroCentralAsian Lesbian* Community (EL*C) is a feminist, intersectional, pan-European network of over 200 LBQ-led and LBQ-focused civil society organisations in Europe and Central Asia, including all 27 EU Member States. EL*C is the only European network dedicated exclusively to the rights, needs, and interests of lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women, both cis and trans, and other gender non-conforming persons identifying themselves within the lesbian identity. Our mission is to make LBQ women visible, strengthen their participation in decision-making, improve their access to human rights, social and economic justice, and wellbeing, and ensure that their realities are reflected in policies at national, European, and international levels.
EU Legislative Interests
Legislations and policies mostly covered by EL*C activities are the those included in: - the Gender Equality Strategy 2020-2025 and future Gender Equality Strategy - the LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025 and future LGBTIQ Equality Strategy Other initiatives pertaining to the broader EU strategic framework on equality can be relevant. This includes: - Legislations and policies included in the Disability Rights strategy 2021-2030 - Legislations and policies included in the EU anti-racism action plan and future Anti-racism strategy - Legislations and policies included in the forthcoming Civil Society Strategy
Communication Activities
EL*C has been conducted several activities in the past years that are relevant for the EU policies above. EVENTS: - in the European Parliament organised in collaboration with the EP Intergroup on LGBTIQ rights and with offices of MEPs to mark International Lesbian Visibility Day and the international day on combating violence against women (April 2018, April 2020, April 2022, November 2023, April 2024) - participation with speakers to Conferences organised by German Presidency to the EU Council “Intersectionality and LGBTI Policies in Europe: Lived Realities of Lesbian* Women and the Recognition of Rainbow Families" in November 2020 and to the High-level conference on LGBTI Rights organised by the Swedish Presidency to the EU Council in 2023 and a High-level conference organised by the Belgian Presidency to the EU Council in 2024. - an event featuring MEPs and Commissioner Dalli for the launch of EL*C research on the COVID-19 impact on lesbian community in June 2021 - a European Lesbian Conference in 2022 and in 2025 with the participation of MEPs as well as representatives from the European Commission and an event in 2024 on the occasion of the European elections with the participation of EC representatives PUBLICATIONS: - Research focusing on racialised LBQ women (2025): https://lesbiangenius.org/research-lived-realities-of-black-racialized-roma-and-central-asian-lesbians-in-the-eu/ - EL*C perspectives on the Union of Equality (2025): https://lesbiangenius.org/elc-perspectives-on-the-union-of-equality/ EL*C Observatory on Lesbophobia (2019–2025): - 2024: https://lesbiangenius.org/wp-content/uploads/2024-Observatory_final-report.pdf - 2023: https://lesbiangenius.org/wp-content/uploads/2023-Report-on-lesbophobia.pdf - 2019–2022: https://lesbiangenius.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Observatory-Lesbophobia-2019-2022.pdf - Research on the Implementation of the Convention to Protect LBT Women (2024): https://lesbiangenius.org/wp-content/uploads/Lesbianising-the-Istanbul-Convention-report.pdf - "Making the Invisible Visible: an analysis of older lesbians lived experiences" (2023): https://europeanlesbianconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Making-the-Invisible-Visible-an-analysis-of-older-lesbians-lived-experiences_ELC-research.pdf - "A bitter pill to swallow: gaps and discriminations in healthcare for lesbians" (2022): https://europeanlesbianconference.org/a-bitter-pill-to-swallow-gaps-and-discriminations-in-healthcare-for-lesbians/ - EL*C website in support of Ukranian refugees (2022): https://www.lesbians4refugees.org/ - "Lesbophobia: an intersectional form of violence" (2021): https://europeanlesbianconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Lesbophobia-2.pdf - "Resistance as a Way of Living: Lesbian lives through the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021): https://europeanlesbianconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Covid-Report-final-1.pdf - “The State of Lesbian Organizing and the Lived Realities of Lesbians in the EU and the Accession Countries” (2020): https://europeanlesbianconference.org/the-state-of-lesbian-organising-a-groundbreaking-research/ - “Brief Report on Lesbian* Lives in (parts of) Europe” (2017): https://europeanlesbianconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Brief-Report-for-web.pdf
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
N/A
Organisation Members
N/A
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.