Rainbow Talks

Different. Funny. Inspiring. Rainbow. The usual meeting lectures will be transformed into informal conversations, allowing the exchange of experiences amongst all participants. Our speakers are professionals, academics and peers. Read more Read more

Julia Ehrt

I am the Executive Director of Transgender Europe and have been involved in international trans activism for a decade. I started activism in a youth group questioning the omnipresent bi-polar gender identity approach in society and was involved with the Transgender Network Berlin and am a founding member of TransInterQueer – a berlin based queer organisation. Three years ago my daughter Emilie was born – she is my and my partner's sunshine.Read more Read more

Luís Amorim

Luís is the proud father of Georgina (10). He and his Swedish husband Jarl became parents through adoption in the USA in 2005. Luís and family live in Brussels, Belgium in a fairy-tale house, next to a fairy-tale forest. Luís describes his family as a polyglot, multi-cultural, multi-racial work of love. He believes that a world that does not discriminate against the children of LGBT people is a better world for all children everywhere. In December 2013, Luís published a children’s book with the support of ILGA Portugal, telling the story of a…Read more Read more

Daniela Freitas and Jorge Gato

Jorge Gato and Daniela Freitas are both psychologists. Jorge likes to work with families and is also a post-doctoral researcher in the area of LGBT parenting. Daniela is finishing her PhD about resilience in face of discrimination and bullying. They have been working together at the University of Porto since 2007. It has been an exciting journey. Once they got lost in Berlin but apparently found their way back home (as kind of what they do when they argue about work). Last year they were invited to speak in the Portuguese parliament about…Read more Read more

Brune and Pablo Seban

A Tree of Identities: We Want to be Equals, not Normal! How we decided, after the debate on gay marriage in France, to use our "imposed" identity of "sons of gay mums" to talk about equality and freedom of choice, then to make our own webdcumentary exposing the intimacy of our family as a starting point to think deeper about identities, racism, gender and norms. Brune and Pablo Seban, France We have two mums, and suddenly during the debate on « gay marriage » in France, that meant being « child of gay».…Read more Read more

Miguel Vale de Almeida

I teach at the University to pay the bills, I do research in Anthropology for pleasure, and I'm involved in activism and politics because I gotta. I love to write, paint, read, exercise, dance and take naps. I can't stand octopus but I'd eat all 8 arms of one for my 7-year old daughter. I guess I'll be telling you some exciting stories about family diversity in time and space, including some extraterrestrial incursions (oh, yes, I like sci-fi). Read more Read more

Lena Herrmann-Green

Lena Herrmann-Green is among the first children born to lesbian parents in Germany. She has a younger brother and sister. She and her family were active in the rainbow family community in Southern Germany. Lena also participated in raising public awareness via interviews in books on children of LGBT parents and in a documentary film of her family: Mami, Mama und drei Kinder (SWR, 2008). Today, Lena studies politics and administration at university and has been on panels of adult children of lgbt families in Cologne, Stuttgart and European Parliament in Brussels. Read more Read more