Since April, 1st in Saint Petersburg and Moscow on the bars Fly Cards, which are in the halls of restaurants’ and café’s system, beauty salons and fitness centres, clubs and bars, cinemas and entertaining centres, the cards of interregional social movement «The Russian LGBT Network» have appeared. The release of the cards is timed to the beginning of information campaign «Week against homophobia» which will be going off from April 5 till April 11 in more than ten regions of our country.
The main idea of the card, where two pairs are represented, consists in expression of love independence from sexual orientation. Love may be different: between man and woman, between two women, between two men. “Any love is lawful, if it is a true love”, the writer Rudolf Erich Raspe spoke. This remarkable phrase became the card motto.

The main reason of a homophobia is ignorance. Look around! Probably the man who has given up his place to you in the underground or the girl who has lifted a scarf which you have dropped in the morning belong to sexual minorities. Stereotypes generate comical and ugly images which bear no relation to the people standing for the definition homosexual.

Let’s try to see and understand each other.

The complete program in Saint Petersburg
http://vkontakte.ru/page12926348

Web site of the Week Against Homophobia
http://rwaho.lgbtnet.ru/
Organizers:
http://lgbtnet.ru/ (Russia)
http://ilga-europe.org/ (Russia)
http://piter.lgbtnet.ru/ (Saint Petersburg)

Photographer Lida Mihajlova.

Translated by Dmitry Petrov