LGBTIphobia
![Lídia Arroyo Lídia Arroyo, sociologist and researcher in the UOC's Gender and ICT research group.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/xlidiaarroyofoto_2.jpgqitokci750ifv.pagespeed.ic_.t-kamxp_-w.jpg?itok=ShtlJrnL&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
We talk with the sociologist and researcher in the UOC's Gender and ICT research group.
![IdemTV Rainbow Europe, is ILGA Europe’s annual benchmarking tool that includes the Rainbow Map, and Index and national recommendations.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/xrainbow_europe_map_2021.pngqitokd25e9owx.pagespeed.ic_.34_qgifopa.png?itok=4Yd-_bWP&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
ILGA Europe has released its ‘Rainbow Europe Map’ showing a worrying setback in some countries and a general standstill with regards to the rights of LGBTI people.
It might seem, in the middle of 2021, the LGTBIQ+ community only needs to finish fine-tuning the rights they have already achieved, but unfortunately we still have to fight to claim basic rights that the LGTBIQ+ collective has not been able to achieve.
![Fundació Surt The european project Look wide aims to look at violence from a wide perspective.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/img_3212.jpg?itok=bmdEKEFw&c=95770adf8ce53b2668899166f6c1f7b1)
This is the goal of the European project “Look Wide”, a research project to include a gender-based and sexually-diverse perspective in dealing with macho and gender-based violence.
![Monica Benicio was Marielle Franco’s partner until the day she was murdered.](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/img_20190515_142123.jpg?itok=31zQA_ta&c=fd07d4fef0c264756aabed6d524e1c9a)
We talk to the partner of Marielle Franco, a sociologist, feminist, human rights activist and a person committed to the Afro and LGBTI movements in Brazil, who was murdered on 14th March 2018.
![Malta, leader in legislative and political advances for LGBTI rights in Europe. Source: Pixabay](https://nonprofit.xarxanet.org/sites/nonprofit.xarxanet.org/files/styles/xn19_responsive_image/public/malta.png?itok=wxnZJZxp)
According to data taken from the Rainbow Europe 2018, the Mediterranean country leads the ranking, with states like Turkey, Armenia or Azerbaijan coming last.