Project data

Summary of the project

In a cooperation between the children's and youth parliament, the Kreisjugendring e.V. and the Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, the living situation and counselling needs of queer adolescents and young adults in the district of Nordhausen are to be qualitatively surveyed.

Studies on the specific life situation of queer adolescents and young adults show that queer-specific violence, such as marginalisation or bullying, is widespread. Queer adolescents and young adults have a higher risk of mental illness. This suggests a need for easily accessible and specialised services aimed at queer young people (e.g. counselling for bullying experiences, support with questions about gender identity or sexual orientation, support with coming out processes or legal advice). Accordingly, the planned qualitative interviews will focus on coming out processes, experiences at school and in the district of Nordhausen as well as counselling experiences and requests.

bisexual/biromantic, pansexual/biromantic, asexual/aromantic, trans*, inter*, non-binary, agender, bigender, multigender, genderfluid, queer or questioning (this list is not exhaustive, all identities of the LGBTQIA+ spectrum are addressed).