Rosa Hilfe Freiburg is the city's LGBTIQ centre, on the Grethergelände just off the Altstadt ring. It was founded in 1985 out of several existing groups and joined the Paritätischer welfare association in 1990.
The work divides into counselling, community and advocacy. Counselling runs by telephone, online and in person, covering coming out, gender identity, relationships, discrimination, and HIV and STI questions. Around it sit self-help and interest groups, a youth strand, and offers for queer refugees.
The centre also carries much of what passes for scene life in Freiburg. It runs a queer café, an international queer café aimed at refugees, and a long-running dance party at a venue by the Waldsee. A remembrance project documents the persecution of queer people in southern Baden and the movement's own history in the region.
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