Queergesund* - Gesundheitsförderung für lesbische, bisexuelle und queere Frauen*

Lesbian and bisexual women are increasingly experiencing acceptance and legal equality in society.

However, their health concerns have hardly been recognized and addressed to date. Many lesbian, bisexual and queer women experience discrimination in healthcare.

This discrimination is evident, for example, when all women are assumed to have a heterosexual lifestyle or partners are not recognized as important caregivers. There is also almost no health information, prevention or health services specifically for this target group.

Participation creates health - health promotion strategies for lesbian, bisexual and queer women*

The final conference of the study took place in Dortmund in February 2017. You can find out more about the conference, the presentations and much more on the conference website(Opens in a new tab) .

• Sati Arikpinar, Health Center for Migrants Cologne
• Eva Bujny, frauenberatungsstelle duesseldorf e.V.
• Dr. Muriel González Athenas, Ruhr University Bochum
• Marta Grabski, Rosa Strippe e.V. Bochum
• Prof. Dr. Marianne Kosmann, Fachhochschule Dortmund
• Dr. Constance Ohms, Frankfurt/Main
• Gema Rodríguez Díaz, Integration Agency at rubicon e.V. Cologne
• Helga Seyler, Family Planning Center Hamburg and specialist group "Health of lesbian and bisexual women" in the Women's Health Working Group AKF e.V.
• Dr. Gesa C. Teichert, HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen
• Maria Zemp, body psychotherapy, non-medical practitioner, focus: specialist consultant for women's health Euskirchen and (international) psychosocial dream work, regular consultant for medica mondiale.

We would like to thank Dr. Gabi Stummer, Cologne, for her collaboration until July 2015.
We would like to thank Prof. Dr. Marianne Kosmann, who passed away in December 2017, for her collaboration. I would like to thank Ulrike Janz, Competence Center Women and Health NRW, for her cooperation during the project period.

The project was carried out in collaboration with the Arbeitsstelle für regionale Sozialarbeitsforschung (AreSo) at Fachhochschule Dortmund and the project "VeSA - Vertrauen in der Sozialen Arbeit" (Prof. Dr. Rosenmüller).