”Campus Pride – Communitary Advocacy Campaigns for Safe Universities” is a project with roots in the international community and that has started its activity since 2015. Campus Pride is the first initiative in Romania that aims at creating a safe and welcoming environment and an accepting climate for all of the students from the Romanian university environment, no matter the sexual orientation or gender identity. The project, dedicated and created by the LGBT (lesbians, gay, bisexuals, and trans) students in Bucharest created the first safe space in which they were able to get informed, to socialize, and to develop leadership skills, all in the context of a deeply homophobic reality.
Starting with October 2021, we opened three student centers in Bucharest, Cluj, and Timișoara, where the LGBT youth and allies could regularly meet to share their experiences, to take part in various community building activities and to support each other.
Between 2015 – 2016 , the project engaged the LGBT students in organizing three key events: LGBT Allies Week – a series of social events (forum theater storytelling, debates, quiz night, karaoke, living library, party, board games, treasure hunt, movie night etc.); LGBT History Month – workshop, laser tag; Pride Week – banners workshop, PhotoVoice exhibition, Diversity March. Other events that had been organized during that year include: an event on the “Transgender Day of Remembrance”, an event on the Asexual Visibility Day, the Queer Prom “How Queers Stole Christmas”.
In 2017 Campus Pride organized social gatherings (parties, brunches, movie nights) and workshops (on sexual education, and on the intervention in cases of violent incidents of all forms).
In 2018, the LGBT students organized themselves to put together a party at Macaz, the “Brave To Be Me” exhibition, with snapshots of the LGBT students’ lives, and in collaboration with IBM România, they organized two personal trainings within the Faculty of Sociology, and the SNSPA.
After a pause of three years, the project was reinstated in 2021. During this year, the project commenced multiple actions and events in Bucharest, Cluj, and Timișoara, but also online, such as:
In 2022we found out together the realities of the LGBT students in the universities in Romania.
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The project is implemented by the MozaiQ LGBT Association in partnership with Pride Romania Association, Identity.Education and Samtökin ’78 and benefits from a grant of243.505€ , of the Active Citizens Fund România, offered by Island, Liechtenstein and Norway, through the SEE 2014-2021 Grants. The content of this website does not necessarily reflect the official position of the SEE and Norwegian 2014-2021 Grants; for more information visit http://www.eeagrants.org. Information about Active Citizens Fund Romania are available at http://www.activecitizensfund.ro.
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