| dc.description.abstract | On 12 November 2020, the European Commission adopted its first-ever LGBTIQ equality strategy for 2020-2025 (referred to below as the ‘LGBTIQ strategy’). It strives to build a ‘Union of Equality’ where diversity is promoted and protected, and where all people can love who they want to and be themselves, without risk of discrimination, exclusion, hatred or violence. In 2019, a survey conducted by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) found that the perception of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) was increasing in the EU. Amongst the lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans people who responded, 43% said they felt discriminated against in 2019, as compared to 37% in 20123. The LGBTIQ strategy marked a new phase in the EU’s efforts to address the inequalities and challenges affecting LGBTIQ people, in order to move towards a ‘Union of Equality’. The LGBTIQ strategy sets out a series of measures to step up EU’s non-discrimination action, to mainstream LGBTIQ equality into all EU policies, legislation and funding programmes and to amplify the voices of LGBTIQ people. It also pays particular attention to the diversity of LGBTIQ people’s needs and to the most vulnerable, including those experiencing intersectional discrimination and trans, non-binary and intersex people. In addition, it aims to bring together EU Member States and stakeholders at all levels in a joint endeavour to address discrimination against LGBTIQ persons more effectively by 2025. | en_US |
