Valeria Santostefano is ILGA-Europe's Senior Programmes & Policy Officer who organised the gathering in November and shared her thoughts on this blog:

An exciting two-day event with 11 D/deaf and disabled LGBTI activists from nine European countries this month gave everyone involved some crucial take-aways and key priorities for future movement building.

On the 22 and 23 of November, ILGA-Europe hosted a gathering of 11 D/deaf and disabled LGBTI activists from nine countries throughout the European region. It was for us all an incredible opportunity to meet, share experiences, exchange information, and pull together knowledge, tools and practices to support and strengthen D/deaf and disabled LGBTI people, communities and movements.

To our knowledge, international initiatives around LGBTI disability are lacking in our region. D/deaf and disabled LGBTI people clearly face specific barriers and challenges when accessing human rights. As much as accessibility and inclusiveness have more and more been part of LGBTI groups and organisations’ conversations and practices, most D/deaf and disabled LGBTI people continue to be marginalised in LGBTI movements across Europe and Central Asia. At ILGA-Europe, we wanted to contribute to changing that. Read more via ILGA-Europe