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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2012-05-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Fight against homophobia in Europe (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"de"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120522.19.2-451-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2012-05-22-Speech-2-452-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulrike Lunacek2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2012-02-13--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member; G/EFA (2009-07-14--2013-02-04)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; FEMM (2012-01-19--2012-10-24)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, less than a week ago, it was the International Day against Homophobia, and we celebrated here in the European Parliament with a video message made by many of us here including some of the Commissioners – Ms Reding and others – telling young people in Europe especially that: ‘It gets better’. As a lesbian woman myself, and one who has lived through times when things were not, at least in some parts of this continent, as easy as they are now, I know how it is to live a life of fear, of being afraid of walking hand in hand with your loved person in the streets, or of kissing her or him goodbye at the train station. Homophobia is about fear, as it states in our text. It is an irrational fear of, and an aversion to, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, based on prejudice and similar to racism, xenophobia and anti-semitism and sexism. It is something that we should all condemn, and we should make sure that people do not have to be afraid of living their lives to the full, which includes a happy love life. Much as things have improved in many parts of this continent, there is reason for serious concern. As has been mentioned, in some countries outside the EU – Ukraine, Russia and Moldova, for example – there are people, sometimes in government and sometimes outside it, who try to put laws into practice that prohibit any kind of public discussion of homosexuality. Visibility and public speeches are so important, especially for young people who are coming out and want to be open and out and proud of what they are. It is up to us here, at all levels of the European Union, to speak out against homophobia, to condemn it clearly, to make strategies – to make a road map, Ms Reding – to fight homophobia and to pursue equal rights for lesbians and gays, in order to make sure that, as you advocated, homophobia is condemned on this continent, and is not something that any one of us supports."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Ulrike Lunacek,"1 "on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group."1
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