“Week against Homophobia” - that’s one week of actions with the goal of drawing society’s attention to the problem of homophobia and it’s dangers. This Week is a possibility of responding to homophobic rhetoric by creating a space without discrimination and hatred in people’s relations. In Petersburg, seminars, discussions, film showings and other events are about to take place the third year in a row, beginning in 2007, for everyone who is not insensible to their present and ready to make a difference for their future.

March 23 (Monday)

“Memorial evening” dedicated to LGBT life in the USSR and homosexuals who became victims of political repressions.

ul. Rubinsteina, 23, office 103 (NGO “Memorial”), 7 p.m.

Organizer: LGBT organization “ComingOut”.

March 24 (Tuesday)

Seminar on the results of the monitoring on dicrimination due to sexual orientiation and gender indentity in 2008.

Ligovskiy pr., 87, office 406, 6 p.m.

Organizer: LGBT organization “ComingOut”.

March 25 (Wednesday)

Debate organized by the informational youth project “PolitEducation” on the topic “Homophobia as a political problem”.

Club “Sochi”, Kazanskaya ul., 7, 7 p.m.

Organizer: “PolitEducation”, LGBT organization “ComingOut”.

March 25 (Wednesday)

Psychological seminar “Where does homophobia come from?”

Ligovskiy pr., 87, office 406, 6.20 p.m.

Organizer: NGO “Gender-L”.

March 26 (Thursday)

Film showing: Steven Soderbergh’s “Bubble” in the framework of the film festival “Open your eyes!”

Discussion on the topic “Conflict of three cultures: the sexual, the ethnic and the intellectual”.

Cinema “Rodina”, 5 p.m.

Organizer: LGBT film festival “Side by Side”, LGBT organization “ComingOut”.

March 27 (Friday)

Seminar and discussion “Upbringing of children in a homophobic society (upbringing of children in LGBT families, heteronormativity and heterosexism in contemporary upbringing)”.

Ligovskiy pr., 87, office 300, 7 p.m.

Organizer: LGBT organization “ComingOut”.

March 28 (Saturday)

Documentary film “The Times of Harvey Milk”, director Rob Epstein, 1984.

Ligovskiy pr., 87, office 300, 6 p.m.

Party at the club “Central Station”. Admission free until 11 p.m.

Club “Central Station”, ul. Lomonosova, 1.

Organizer: LGBT organization “ComingOut”.

March 28 (Saturday)

Party at the club “CITY” (second floor “Money Honey”, ul. Sadovaya, 28-30).

7 p.m. - 11 p.m. - performance of the group BOSIE (acoustic), theater performance “blue martian”, Lia Kirgetova is going to present her new poems.

11 p.m. - last guest - retro-, pop-, house-dance on two floors. Admission 250 rub.

Organizer: “LesbiPARTY”.

March 29 (Sunday)

“Youth Day”: ComingOut A-Megaquest.

Place and time will be announced on the site piter.lgbtnet.ru

Organizer: LGBT organization ComingOut, Sport Club A-Mega.