On 16 December 2021, Serena D'Agostino, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Brussels School of Governance, was invited, together with her co-author Anna Ropianyk, to present their recently published work Queer asylum seekers in Belgium: Navigating reception centers at the LGBTQ Forum – a Flemish network of researchers, civil society actors, and policymakers working on sexual and gender diversity. The other speaker was Fourat Ben Chika, who – apart from his work for Groen in the Belgian Senate – is the special rapporteur on LGBTI-issues for the Council of Europe. In this capacity, he is creating a report on the rising homo- and transphobia in Europe, which he discussed at the forum.
