Debate with LGBT ambassadors from around the world on Twitter

Date: Tuesday 20 June 2017 - 14:00 to Monday 26 June 2017 - 12:30

Join our Tweet Chats for Love on Twitter and share your experiences, your doubts and questions with LGBTIQ ambassadors from around the world. Through this action we want to raise awareness of the difficulties that this community faces, while also generating a worldwide dialogue in search of new conclusions and new areas to debate.

It's very easy, you just need to:

Select a Tweet Chat for Love session from the ones described below. (We will hold talks in English and Spanish).
Conect to Twitter the chosen day and time.
Follow the conversation with the hashtag #LoveIsGreat.
Send your questions and views by mentioning the ambassador's Twitter account (@ambassador). Don't forget to tag your tweet with #LoveIsGreat so everyone can follow the debate.

Date and time (GMT+1)	Tweet chat for love with...	Twitter account and language for the session
June 20, 14:00 h	Kagure Mugo (Kenya)	Conversation with @tiffmugo ‏in English
Ambassador's biography Kagure Mugo is from Kenya and co founder and curator of HOLAAfrica.org, a website and space for queer African women. It publishes written, audio and visual material by queer African women at home and in the diaspora and engages in activism, knowledge production and awareness building. Kagure’s work has been included in Walking the Tightrope, Poetry and Prose from LGBTQ writers from Africa, published in 2016.
June 21, 16:00 h	Giovanni Piermattei (Venezuela)	Conversation with @piermatteig in Spanish
Ambassador's biography Giovanni Piermattei has created the Art Exhibition for Sexual Diversity in Venezuela and has more than 5 years fighting for LGBTI rights in Venezuela. He leads Venezuela Igualitaria NGO and connected more than 40 organisations in Venezuela to collect more than 20,000 signs to support the draft of Equal Marriage Bill which was presented in the Parliament. The Art Exhibition has been performed in 2 cities in Venezuela and this year will be performed in Caracas, the capital city. Giovanni connects likewise the LGBTI movement in Venezuela with allies from America and Spain.
June 26, 12:00 h	Mahmoud Hassino (Syria)	Conversation with @SyrianGayGuy in English
Ambassador's biography Mahmoud Hassino is a Syrian journalist; he started blogging about LGBT rights in 2006 while he was still in Syria. Due to the Syrian regime's crackdown on nonviolent protests, he fled to Turkey where he worked on journalism and documenting human rights violations, and started the first Syrian LGBT online magazine, Mawaleh. His participations in Istanbul LGBT pride and advocacy for LGBT rights put him under serious risk. He had to flee to Germany where he continued working on Mawaleh and organising Mr. Gay Syria competition in Istanbul. He is now working at Schwulenberatung Berlin with their LGBTI refugees project. In the meantime, he is still going to Turkey despite all the risks to help the Syrian LGBT refugee community there.

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