#3 SOME KIND OF TOMORROW: Threat to the queer movement
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How does the rise of the far right turn the LGBTQIA+ community into a target.
Since Donald Trump’s re-election, the culture war over gender issues has escalated and is also finding willing advocates in Germany. Attacks on queer people are on the rise, sponsors are withdrawing from CSD
parades, diversity programmes are being discontinued – as if many of those responsible had been waiting for an excuse. Is the battle for the LGBTQIA+ community becoming a reflection of the state of our democracy?
With Heinrich Horwitz, Anna Konjetzky, Luce deLire, Lamin Leroy Gibba
Biography
Luce deLire publishes widely on art and politics, in addition to academic articles on the metaphysics of infinity, postcolonial perspectives on social contracts, queer theory, trans philosophy, and antifascism. She is currently working on a book titled “EUPHORIA: A treatise against capitalism's techno-tyrants (notably THE BABY) and for revolutionary Trans Lesbian hospitality” and another book titled “Spinoza, Gender, Sexuality” (Cambridge University Press, 2026).
Heinrich Horwitz is a director, choreographer, and actor, creating work in the independent scene, at various municipal theaters, and within the contemporary music sector. They studied at HfS Ernst Busch Berlin and received the Tabori Award in 2023. Their productions have been presented at Staatstheater Darmstadt, Opera Bremen, Musiktheater im Revier, Staatstheater Kassel, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Deutschlandfunk Cologne, as well as at Ruhrtriennale, Tanztage Berlin, and Ultima Oslo. Alongside 185+ actors, Heinrich Horwitz is a co-signer of the #ActOut manifesto and an activist for queer visibility in culture and media, as well as active in cultural policy.
Anna Konjetzky has been creating dance works presented internationally at theaters and festivals since 2005. She has choreographed for institutions such as the Saarländisches Staatstheater and Staatstheater Braunschweig and teaches worldwide. Her works explore sociopolitical themes from a queer-feminist perspective. She has received numerous awards, including the Förderpreis Tanz of the City of Munich. In 2019, she founded PLAYGROUND, a space for artistic research in Munich.
Lamin Leroy Gibba is an actor, writer, director, and producer. He studied acting and film at The New School University in New York. His stage credits include performances at the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Performance Space New York, Theater Oberhausen, Kampnagel Hamburg, and Ballhaus Naunynstraße, as well as work in film and television productions. His short films include FEVER SOURCE, CLOUD ZERO, and HUNDEFREUNDE. His play DOPPELTREPPE ZUM WALD won both the Audience Award and the SWR2 Radio Play Award at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt. For his series SCHWARZE FRÜCHTE, in which Gibba serves as creator, showrunner, head writer, and lead actor, he received the Blauer Panther Award.