{"id":5693,"date":"2022-04-05T14:42:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T11:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/?p=5693"},"modified":"2022-04-05T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T11:42:34","slug":"attack-on-rainbow-hub-community-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/attack-on-rainbow-hub-community-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack on Rainbow Hub Community Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"5268\" src=\"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185813-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185813-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185813-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185813-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185813-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185813-1320x1760.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185813-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"5270\" src=\"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185646-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185646-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185646-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185646-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185646-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185646-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185646-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"5272\" src=\"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185752-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185752-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185752-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185752-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185752-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185752-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185752-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"5274\" src=\"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185726-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185726-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185726-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185726-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185726-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185726-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bilitis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/20211030_185726-1-1320x990.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">English<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">30th of October, 5:30h in the afternoon the LGBTI community&nbsp;Center in Sofia &#8211; the Rainbow Hub &#8211; was attacked!<br>Around 6 p.m. during a&nbsp;community meeting with Melissa and Emily&nbsp;(who have a great media presence over the last few months as openly trans people), a group of about 10 men stormed in the Rainbow Hub, hitting Gloria Filipova from Bilitis Foundation in the face, and vandalizing the space, smashing equipment and furniture.&nbsp;<br>The attacker is the well known far-right leader Boyan Rasate who is also currently a candidate in the Presidential elections in Bulgaria which will take place on November 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>This comes 10 days after the petition of more than 8,000 signatures was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fbilitisfoundation%2Fposts%2F10158099648276078&amp;data=04%7C01%7CVanderwallPM%40state.gov%7C9920a89f675b47788c2408d99bc874a8%7C66cf50745afe48d1a691a12b2121f44b%7C0%7C1%7C637712107529047705%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=pUV1YjrcbH6TYdk3DDImNvVwN%2BsFYUUxwix0sQa%2BGco%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">filed at<\/a>&nbsp;the Ministry of Justice demanding the introduction of anti-LGBTI hate crimes to Bulgarian Criminal Code, and 4 days after the decision on the Bulgarian Constitutional Court that according to the Constitution, the term &#8220;gender&#8221; should be understood only in its biological sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not only unacceptable in a state governed by the rule of law, but is a signal of lawlessness and impunity. We call on the authorities to investigate this case thoroughly and for Boyan Rasate and those responsible to face the consequences for their actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English 30th of October, 5:30h in the afternoon the LGBTI community&nbsp;Center in Sofia &#8211; the Rainbow Hub &#8211; was attacked!Around 6 p.m. during a&nbsp;community meeting with Melissa and Emily&nbsp;(who have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5693\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilitis.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}