Editing Alliance 90/The Greens (section)

===Women and LGBTQIA+ rights===
[[File:2021-09-12 Politik, TV-Triell Bundestagswahl 2021 1DX 3651 by Stepro.jpg|thumb|Green supporters supporting Annalena Baerbock in 2021]]
The Green Party supports the implementation of quotas in executive boards, the policy of equal pay for equal work, and continuing the fight against domestic violence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gruene.de/themen/frauenpolitik/frauenpolitik.html|title=Frauenpolitik |date=1 October 2015|website=Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Bundespartei |access-date=16 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026153751/http://www.gruene.de/themen/frauenpolitik/frauenpolitik.html|archive-date=26 October 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> According to its website, the Green Party "fights for the acceptance and against the exclusion of homosexuals, bisexuals, intersex- and transgender people and others".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gruene.de/themen/soziale-gerechtigkeit/lesben-schwule-sexuelle-identitaet.html|title=Lesben, Schwule & sexuelle Identität |website=Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Bundespartei |date=1 January 2013 |access-date=16 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161116142448/http://www.gruene.de/themen/soziale-gerechtigkeit/lesben-schwule-sexuelle-identitaet.html|archive-date=16 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In order to recognize the political persecution that [[LGBT]]+ people face abroad, the Green Party wants to extend asylum to LGBTQIA+ people abroad.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Forderung der Grünen: "Asylschutz für Lesben, Schwule und Transgender ausbauen" |url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/queerspiegel/forderung-der-gruenen-asylschutz-fuer-lesben-schwule-und-transgender-ausbauen/13965054.html |access-date=16 December 2016 |work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |language=de-DE |date=2016 |first1= Tilmann |last1=Warnecke }}</ref> The policy change was sponsored primarily by [[Volker Beck (politician)|Volker Beck]], one of the Party's most prominent gay members.<ref name="Politik unterm Regenbogen">{{Cite news|url=http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/schwule-und-lesbische-abgeordnete-politik-unterm-regenbogen/12721820.html|title=Schwule und lesbische Abgeordnete: Politik unterm Regenbogen |access-date=16 December 2016 |work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |language=de-DE |date=December 15, 2015 |first1=Antje |last1=Sirleschtov |first2=Angie |last2=Pohlers }}</ref> Because of the extensive support the Green Party has given the LGBTQIA+ community since its conception, many LGBTQIA+ people vote for the Green Party even if their political ideology does not quite align otherwise.<ref name="Politik unterm Regenbogen" />