For over 20 years, I’ve been involved in Hamburg’s queer community, and I am proud to continue the fight for progress in the Bürgerschaft. Even today, queer people face discrimination, ostracization, and violence – in everyday life, in the workplace, or from family members. To fight for LGBTQIA+ rights means to fight for a society in which all people are free to live without fear. Commitment to this work helps to increase visibility, strengthen rights, and send a clear signal that plurality and difference are not problems to be solved, but values in and of themselves.