Dear friends,

the first ComingOutCinema of a new season 2009-2010 which takes place on Saturday, August 22nd, will be opened by the film, devoted to the Memorial Day of victims of totalitarian regime.
The LGBT-organization “Coming Out” supports the Resolution of Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE dated July 3rd, 2009, which has assigned the day of the 23rd of August in Europe as the Memorial Day of victims of Stalinism and Nazism for the memory preservation of the victims of mass executions and deportations.
We emphasize that in Nazi Germany, and in Stalin, and the post Stalin USSR millions of homosexuals were the victims of the regimes. The film which will be shown on the ComingOutCinema is about two gays who have been banished by Nazis in concentration camp in Dachau.

So we shall show the film “Bent” by the British director Shona Mattias (1997) on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009, at 6 p.m., on the address: Ligovskiy prospect, 87, office 300.

After the film the traditional discussion will take place.

Tge following visitors will participate in discussion:

Vladimir Shnittke – the human rights organization “Memorial”

Irina Flige - the human rights organization “Memorial” (participation is not confirmed yet)

Alexander Vinnikov – the movement “For Russia without racism”

Igor Petrov, the Russian LGBT-Network

Valery Sozaev - the LGBT-Organization “Coming out”

Come, we are waiting for you!

Your LGBT-Organization “Coming out”