How Tessa Ganserer and Linus Giese fight for the rights of queer people

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Photo: Greens in the Bundestag / S. Kaminski / Annette Etges

»Role models, hate figures, people – like Tessa Ganserer and Linus Giese fight for the rights of queer people.«

On November 22 at 8 p.m.

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The Greens politician Tessa Ganserer is one of the first openly transgender MPs in the Bundestag.

Trans man Linus Giese lives in Berlin, is a bookseller, blogger and author of the bestseller »I am Linus: How I became the man I have always been«*.

Both are in the public eye in different ways - both regularly experience hatred and the worst hate speech because of their identity.

Above all, but not only online.

How do you stand it?

How do the two perceive the current social debates about LGTBQI issues?

Do you see more progress or regression?

And what do you want for your own life?

SPIEGEL editor Aleksandra Janevska from the Social Media & Reader Dialogue department talks to them about this – and

We look forward to you being there.

*»I am Linus: How I became the man I always was«.

Rowohlt Paperback;

4th edition (18 August 2020);

224 pages, 15 euros

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