Award for Queerbeauftragter of the Federal Government

For 34 years, the association Gay in May, together with the city of Osnabrück, has been awarding the Rosa Courage Prize, an award for people who are committed to the concerns of the LGBTQ community. This year, the prestigious award went to Sven Lehmann, the first queer representative of the Federal Government.

(Politics - Germany) In Osnabr ck the queer representative of the outgoing federal government was awarded the "Rosa Courage Prize" on Friday. We document his speech of thanks, in which he sharply criticizes future Union ministers. read

He is the first queer representative of a federal government. Sven Lehmann has now been awarded the Rosa Courage Prize at the cultural festival "Gay in May" in Osnabrück.

Osnabrück (dpa/lni) – The Federal Government Commissioner for the Acceptance of Sexual and Gender Diversity, Sven Lehmann, has been awarded the prize of the queer festival "Gay in May" in Osnabrück. Former WDR presenter Bettina Böttinger presented Lehmann with the Rosa Courage Prize, as one speaker said. Böttinger was also a laudator of the award, which took place in the Peace Hall of the historic town hall in Osnabrück. With the award, the asso…