Coming Out

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Unfortunately in Russia there hardly are any films that adequately represent the life of gays and lesbians. We decided to fill the gap! LGBT Film Festival “Side by Side” in cooperation with the documentary films director Natalya Zhuravleva begin preparations for the shooting of the documentary “Confession” about the life of gays and lesbians in Russia. We invite gay and lesbian people from different cities and different ages to become heroes of this film, which will be shown in Russian and international festivals. Relatives of the heroes will also take part in the shootings.

Dear friends,

We invite you to join the third Day Of Silence in Russia!

Attention: Organisation “Coming Out” does not hold a street action in 2010.

Reminder: always check information about Coming Out’s actions on the official web-site of the organisation - http://piter.lgbtnet.ru/ and in the official VKontakte group - http://vkontakte.ru/club2352211

On Saturday, April 24, 2010 St. Petersburg and 20 other cities in Russia will become quieter as they will take part in the Day Of Silence.

How you can participate?

We suggest that you join us in these ways:

The Saint-Petersburg “Coming Out” LGBT organization held a series of single pickets in Malaya Sadovaya street on April, 11^th. These events were conducted under the motto “We stand for Russia for everybody. We stand for Russia without homophobia” which marked the end of the “Week Against Homophobia”.

7 people participated in the picket, about 40 activists were present and supported the action. The police were making arrangements concerning protection of public order. During picketing there were 2 minor incidents which were efficiently reacted to by the police.

[ 31/01/2010; 18:00:00 to 22:00:00. ]

Dear friends,

In 2010 the project ‘ComingOutCionema’ continuous its work and invites movie enthusiasts and everybody who enjoys taking part in film discussions to the “Green Lamp” press club.

Once a month at 6 p.m. at the “Green Lamp” club (Gagarinskaya street, 3; Chernyshevskaya metro station) we’ll show exciting films on different topics: LGBT, feminism, civil society, human rights and others.

Traditionally, a discussion with experts and project guests is going to take place.

You are welcome to join our warm atmosphere.

Entrance is free. We look forward to seeing you!

2009. Summary of LGBT-activists work in St. Petersburg.

In 2009 St. Petersburg saw a record number of different events and actions aimed at fighting homophobia and discrimination of LGBT community - lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders.

LGBT organisation “Coming Out” with the support of the Russian LGBT
Network ran a series of seminars in Oct-Dec 2009 for journalists,
human rights activists and teachers of St. Petersburg.

The main questions on the agenda were related to gender and sexuality:

* What is gender and what is its difference from biological sex?
* Is homosexuality an illness?
* Who are bigenders and intersexuals?
* What is gender identity?
* Who can become a victim of homophobia?