{"id":103499,"date":"2019-09-23T18:08:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T16:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=103499"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:29","slug":"our-programme-is-truly-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/09\/23\/our-programme-is-truly-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our Pride-programme is truly for everyone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The programme includes a film screening on Monday, a lecture about LGBT+ rights on Tuesday, an evening quiz on Wednesday and loads of other activities until Saturday evening. This will be the first time Erasmus Pride organises its own series of events during the Rotterdam Pride. Chair Fabian Lips finds it particularly important that participants feel welcome: \u201cWe want to offer an environment where everyone feels free and safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur programme is open to everyone studying at EUR \u2013 and anyone else who is interested,\u201d says Fabian. You don\u2019t have to be registered at EUR, in other words, or even be affiliated in some way. \u201cHeterosexuals who\u2019d like to know more about our community or get a taste of our culture are welcome too, for example.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fabian is all in favour of interaction and integration. \u201cI believe that as members of the LGBT+ community, we should participate as intensively as possible in society. This will allow us to work towards the further normalisation of LGBT+ life, among other things.\u201d Still, he\u2019s aware that it is nice to be able to fall back on you own community too, occasionally. \u201cOur network also includes young people from backgrounds that don\u2019t accept their sexual identity,\u201d says the Financial Economics master student. \u201cThey come from a religious family or a country where LGBT+ lifestyles are illegal.\u201d These students had to live without opportunities to express themselves. \u201cSo there\u2019s a definite need for a smaller group of trusted peers where you can be vulnerable and discuss intimate subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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