Love Lazers CSD Speech 2025Those of us, whom Aids is still a crisis and those of us, whom “undetectable” is a reason to celebrate. Those who urge: Therapy for everyone in this world, and those who do not brush away real stigmas. Those who still mourn in times of total medicalisation. Those who will be blocked for their Serostatus. Those who do not get tested and those of us who do not take their pills. Those whose genital warts don’t disappear. Those who make themselves immortal as an error code. Those whose longtime companions: have seen death. Freshly Pozz´d. Contamination as mutation. Those who despite wheelchairs and crutches have not drowned yet, their future firmly in sight. For those of us, HIV is the best thing that happened to them: They will be a Viral Lazer.
Anton
This was a chapter of our group’s manifesto. After five years ago every single word is still as valid as on the first day. I’m Anton, human rights journalist, born and raised and got my HIV-positive status through gay bareback sex — in Russia. My homeland abused me for years, but I only left when Russia started abusing its neighbor — Ukraine. This bloody war has been going on for three and a half years. I was living in seven European countries, but Berlin always felt home since I left.
Litos
And I am Litos Hola! I am media designer, filmmaker and dj. Soy una marica – I am a Marica, a latino and queerQueer ist ein Sammelbegriff für Menschen, deren sexuelle Orientierung oder Geschlechtsidentität nicht der gesellschaftlichen Norm von „heterosexue... Mehr person, born in Colombia, living in Berlin for 3 years. “Marica” is a latin word, like “faggot” , which once wasan offence but now we use it with pride.In Colombia I did not get access to PrEP until I left, most of my friends are HIV-positive and still the numbers of infections are rising like hell. Although PrEP is officially available, but it is a lottery, depending on the moral mindset of the doctor you meet. The process is complicated, because our health system is very basic. For the one’s not having much money, nothing is fair. And even to see a doctor we wait for hours in a line on the street. On lovelazers.org we inform how to get PrEP and reveal all the tricks to users. But still we have to smuggle PrEP meds into the country. And still friends and lovers, – some only 20 or 22 years old, – getting infected. It is a shame!
Anton
In Russia, PrEP isn’t just out of reach — it doesn’t exist. And while the epidemic quietly grows, treatment keeps slipping through the cracks. But for many, the crisis ends quickly: they’re locked up. Prisons are packed with political cases. Others are sent to war — HIV-positive or not — and they die. The lucky ones, manage to escape. But we end in exile — still HIV-positive, still without pills – We need access to treatment for everyone living with HIV here — especially those forced to live without health insurance.
Litos
In Colombia the health system is a corrupt industry. Nothing works. To be HIV-positive can mean to struggle finding HIV treatment. With the global cuts of funding of UNAID and others we are seriously afraid more HIV positive people will get sick and die. Medication will be even harder to get and we call you to fight against these cuts! Speak out against them! Less money means: The old AIDS, that we thought was over, will be back. It means: No end for an epidemic that could be ended by a simple political decision. Let’s fight this queerphobic shit!!!
Anton
In today’s Russia, hatred isn’t a side effect — it’s a strategy. Anyone who doesn’t fit the mold becomes a target. But queers have always been the easiest one. Two years ago, the Russian government declared an imaginary “LGBT movement” an extremist organization. Since then, people have been prosecuted just for being gay. One of them was Andrei Kotov, the founder of a queerQueer ist ein Sammelbegriff für Menschen, deren sexuelle Orientierung oder Geschlechtsidentität nicht der gesellschaftlichen Norm von „heterosexue... Mehr travel agency in Samara. He was arrested, charged with extremism — and died in pre-trial detention. Officials claimed suicide. But signs of torture on his body told a different story:. He was killed.
Litos
In Colombia, sex workers are often transTrans (kurz für transgeschlechtlich oder transident) beschreibt Menschen, deren Geschlechtsidentität nicht mit dem Geschlecht übereinstimmt, das ih... Mehr. They are working and living on the streets. And they get killed. Every day. The life expectancy of transwomen is 35 years here! 15 got killed in the first half of 2025! To be a Marika is dangerous. Life in general is dangerous. Speaking out even more … No job, no health insurance: the only thing we have is us and our community. Let’s build it stronger! Let’s stand in solidarity with them also from Berlin, from Europe, from the global north!
Anton
It was the queerQueer ist ein Sammelbegriff für Menschen, deren sexuelle Orientierung oder Geschlechtsidentität nicht der gesellschaftlichen Norm von „heterosexue... Mehr community in Berlin that held me up three years ago, when I first arrived — lost, sick and a bit scared. Let’s keep Berlin the way I met it: loud, soft, defiant, kind and supportive!
Litos
Also here, in Germany, some of us struggle to find HIV or PrEP medication; even with programs existing for people without health insurance. But: for some the barriers are just unreachable. Especially without good knowledge of German language and culture. And for the others the lines are long as well. – Access to health care, for mental support and for services for drug users are denied to many of us! Often we as Love Lazers are the last who get ask, but we cannot solve such structural problems.
I am speaking out against this nightmare! Let’s fight together hierarchy and stigmatization in the German health system! Same rights for everyone!
Anton
There are so many more things to demand! However, before we celebrate and dance with you today. Because times are changing, we are changing: more diverse, more colorful and even more stubborn. And more sexy! – There is no planet earth without us. We are here and we will stay. For global justice: Kiss local, act global!CHAPTER ZEROThose who move closer as the world falls apart. Those who act like south is north and north is south. Those who expose the crisis as racialized. Those who can’t stand it longer. The links between colonial legacies, racism, queerphobia and economic violence. Those who oppose wars and all attacks on civilians, wherever they happen. Heroes who flee so as not to have to wage war. Those who do not fetishize victims and do not weigh suffering against each other. Those who refuse to think solidarity only in terms of conditions.Those who listen. Listen when marginalized voices speak, without echoing them for applause or credit. Those who tear radical empathy from their hearts. Those who lip sync for their lives. Across oceans. While some bodies cross borders in private jets, others drown in silence. To call for safe passage, shelter, and dignity for all the displaced ones. Those who reject the comfort of not knowing. Those who ask what brings us together, not what divides us. What doesn’t make headlines anymore, but still empties homes where funding has been cut. Nevertheless move forward together. Live our lives not as a slogan, but as a daily decision. With humility, not hashtags. Messy, angry and no emergency exit: We will be solidary Lazer.
