European Lesbian* Conference

[7][8][9][10][11] Silvia Casalino, Anastasia Danilova, Mariella Müller, Alice Coffin, Olena Shevchenko and Maria von Känel were among the co-founders.

[6][13] Karima Zahi represented the EL*C during the Lesbian Visibility Day at the European Parliament on 26 April 2018.

[22] Over 400 women from 44 European, Latin America and central Asian countries were invited to the conference according to Maria von Känel.

[24] The main goal of the conference was to make lesbians visible,[25] combat lesbophobia[26] and to promote solidarity networks.

The first opening statement was made by Ulrike Lunacek, then candidate of the Austrian Green Party to the legislative elections in Vienna.

Other following opening statements were made by Faika El-Nagashi, Ewa Dziedzic and Phyll Opoku-Gyimah and Linda Riley, the publisher of Diva magazine,[29] who gave a keynote introduction to the conference.

Other 2017 board members included Biljana Ginova (secretary), Maria von Känel (secretary), Luise Luksch (treasurer) and Leila Lohman, Michaela Tulipan, Ewa Dziedzic, Olena Shevchenko, Aurora Baba, Alice Coffin, Ilaria Todde, Anastasia Danilova, Pia Stevenson.

EL*C Press Conference in chicklit, feminist bookstore
Some board members of the European Lesbian Conference (EL*C) during a meeting in Vienna in January 2018
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah at the first European lesbian conference in Vienna October 2017
Silvia Casalino at the European Lesbian* Conference
Faika El-Nagashi at the European Lesbian Confenrence in Vienne October 2017
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