Helpful links and Recommendations

We show you helpful websites and projects that deal with queer care.
From the community for the community

Websites & Projects

Get a little inspiration and browse through the selection of care projects and website recommendations for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and intersex people that we have put together for you. Click on the coloured button to go directly to the recommendation. Please note that these are all links to other websites and you will leave our website or a new window will open.
Initiatives that deal with queer care.

LGBTIQ+ care Initiatives

AWO - Queer in old age

The AWO Bundesverband e.V. is running a new nationwide pilot project until the end of 2020 to open up AWO care facilities for the elderly to the LGBTI target group.

Diversity as a place to live

The Lebensort Vielfalt® seal of quality is an award given to inpatient care facilities and outpatient care services that create the conditions to integrate sexual and gender minorities.

Munich pen

Munich City Council has decided that a concept should be developed to open up full inpatient long-term care to the target group of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people (LGBT*).

Frankfurt Association

The initiative aims to help ensure that care facilities offer older homosexuals an environment that is free from discrimination and enables them to lead as independent a life as possible, even if they require care.

LGBTIQ+ interest groups that deal with ageing and care.

Queer Interest groups for ageing and care

Federal Association of Gay Seniors

The Bundesinteressenvertretung schwuler Senioren e.V. (BISS for short) is a nationwide professional association for the interests and self-help of older gay men. They network gay senior citizens' groups and gay self-help organisations.

LSVD

The Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany (LSVD) is a civil rights organisation and represents the interests and concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people (LGBTIQ*).

LSVD

The Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany (LSVD) is a civil rights organisation and represents the interests and concerns of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people (LGBTIQ*).

German AIDS Relief

All information about HIV, AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. Many free materials and counselling services

Federal Trans* Association (BVT*)

The Bundesverband Trans* e.V. is committed to the rights of trans* people.

BiNe - Bisexual Network e.V.

BiNe - Bisexuelles Netzwerk e.V. is a non-profit organisation of bisexual people in the German-speaking world.

Dachverband Lesben und Alter e.V.:

The umbrella organisation represents the interests of lesbians in old age; in public, vis-à-vis institutions and authorities.

Intersex people e.V.

Knowledge, counselling, self-help and rights for intersex people, their families and relatives as well as their wider environment.

From care for care

Current from the Care

Dienstzimmer.com

A platform for carers to find out about new employers in order to find the perfect job for themselves or to rate their current employer in order to share their own experiences.

Care campus

Over 500 courses in the course library The learning world of Pflegecampus offers unlimited access to expert knowledge from the top speakers in nursing and medicine in over 500 training courses, including mandatory instructions with more than 2,500 learning units and 1,900 knowledge tests.

My care café

Hier werden Pflegethemen leicht verständlich erklärt und aktuelle Entwicklungen im Gesundheitswesen besprochen. Es lohnt sich, in den Podcast reinzuhören! Und eine ganz persönliche Anmerkung, Didar und Jens sind außerdem super sympathisch und haben das Herz am rechten Fleck. Deshalb lohnt es sich umso mehr reinzuhören 🙂

Further information for family carers and families of choice

Caring relatives and Families of choice

ZQP Foundation

As a charitable foundation, we support everyone who is committed to helping people in need of care - in the family, in practice, in politics and in science.

Dementia guide

The information platform for all aspects of dementia. The website is operated by the Federal Ministry (BMFSFJ) and offers information and practical tips for relatives of people with dementia.

Pflegeberatung.de

Help, guidance and information can be found here. This service is provided by compass private care counselling.

Committed, courageous and determined initiatives and organisations that are committed to our queer community.

Initiatives and clubs

Magnus Hirschfeld Federal Foundation

The BMH's "Archive of Other Memories" project aims to research and document the lives of LGBTIQ+ people and make them accessible to the public.

Loneliness Competence Network (KNE)

The Loneliness Competence Network (KNE) addresses the causes and consequences of loneliness

Compass.hiv

kompass.hiv - is the address directory for HIV/Aids and sexual health. Here you can find addresses of AIDS service organisations, checkpoints and other counselling, testing and self-help centres.

Positive ageing

How do I want to grow old? Care facilities will have residents with HIV status in the future - what should carers know about the disease? POSITIV ALTERN provides answers.

Rainbow portal

The BMH's "Archive of Other Memories" project aims to research and document the lives of LGBTIQ* people and make them accessible to the public.

QUEERHOME* - Housing advice centre for LGBTIQ+ people

QUEERHOME* is the first housing advice centre in Germany for LGBTIQ+ based in Berlin.

Ideas for more?

We look forward to new recommendations and tips, and are always open to suggestions and enquiries. If you work in the care sector and can imagine working with us, please send us a message. We look forward to hearing from you!