Belgium's State Secretary for Equal Opportunities Sarah Schlitz has announced that over €300,000 will be allocated to two studies and an exhibition on LGBTQ history.
The first research will focus on the history of lesbian movements in Belgium, with €100,000 to be awarded to a researcher/institution and a further sum of €149,000 of support for the Archives and Research Center for Women's History (CARHIF).
The second research supported by the Federal Government has received €30,000 to quantify the extent of the 'anti-gender' movements in Belgium which attempt to roll back gender equality as well as the rights of the LGBTQ community, stated Schlitz's cabinet in a press release.
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A further €60,000 will be allocated to the exhibition "Homosexuals and lesbians in Nazi Europe" set to take place in the spring of 2023 at the Kazerne Dossin – a former Belgian army barracks in the Flemish city of Mechelen that was used by the Nazis as a transit camp to transport Jewish and Roma people to the concentration camps in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald and Ravensbrück.
The site of the Kazerne is currently integrated into the Memorial, Museum and Documentation Center on Holocaust and Human Rights.
