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[ 16/09/2010 17:00:00 to 25/09/2010 17:00:00. ]
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Since July 5, 2010 “Russian LGBT Network Hotline” started operating. The Hotline is designed to support LGBT community in Russia as well as their relatives and friends.

8-800-555-08-68

The number works 24/7, calls from within Russia are free.

The project is carried out with the support of Civil Rights Defenders

Our professionals are ready to help you, you just need to dial the number.

In spite of the homophobia from the society and officials, LGBT families can be wonderful places for upbringing of happy children both biological and adopted.
It’s all in our hands!
We continue to meet with same gender parents.

June 23 (Wednesday) at 19-30 LGBT community of St. Petersburg has a rare chance to talk with Victor Kadyrov, father of several children and the author of the movie “Families in the Colours of the Rainbow”.

[ 29/05/2010; 18:00:00 to 21:00:00. 18:00:00 to 21:00:00. ]

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We invite all the inhabitants of Saint Petersburg to come to a series of single pickets which will be the conclusion of the Week against Homophobia campaign.

The picket will take place on April 11, 2010, from 14.00 to 16.00 on Malaya Sadovaya street.

Together we can clearly declare our stand: the unacceptability of homophobia, of insults to human dignity and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

We expect support from EVERYONE who is not indifferent to the position of various social groups in the society and who understands that homophobia hurts everyone and concerns everyone.

Our project “Parenthood” continues to hold scheduled meetings and seminars. You can keep track of the event if you sign up for our group “Coming Out” in Vkontakte: http://vkontakte.ru/club2352211

On March 22 and 27, two meetings with LGBT parents who have adopted children took place.

The issue of adoption, as well as parenthood problem in LGBT families, is still being silenced in our society. Very often we face the absence of necessary information even on the Internet, and not everyone has friends who can help or give some advice. This event gave me the opportunity to compare the experience of parenting in gay and lesbian families, which I’m studying at the moment. It seems important to me that both gay and lesbian families face the same problems and challenges in upbringing children which means they can team up for solving these problems together.

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.

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