Coming Out

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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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Russian LGBT Network invites you to work together!

Very soon our organization will announce the beginning of a new project “Russian LGBT Network Hotline”.

We invite volunteers to be trained and work in the field of consultation services, information support and basic psychological services.

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Tatyana Tcherkezyan’s original project

From the point of view of the law “The Civil marriage” is a neutral territory without rights and duties. The form of relations is very popular recently and has temporary character as a rule. Marriage, the family’s creation, follows further. However there are pairs which have no an opportunity to leave this neutral territory in our country. Unisex marriages aren’t registered.

Dear friends!

The “Coming Out” conducted elections of the new director. After the introduction of candidates and a discussion during which the candidates answered the questions of the present coordinators and other volunteers of the organization, the Board of administration chose Igor Kochetkov (Petrov) to be the new “Coming Out” director by open vote.
““Coming Out” is a unique organization for our country; it’s not due only to its “orientation”. Most non-governmental organizations in Russia are created for particular projects or for particular persons. So they disappear right after the end of the project or after the person leaves. “Coming Out” is an organization created to serve the ideas and needs of the socially active part of the LGBT community. “Coming Out” was initially started by a team of very different people who shared the same values…

[ 26/12/2009; 18:00:00 to 23:00:00. ]

Dear friends!
We have worked nice and hard this year!

We propose to have a rest and to celebrate the New Year =)

Presidium of the Supreme Council of LGBT, Octobrists and pioneers of LGBT movement invite you to participate in the hot USSR-party «Blue light!” You will plunge into the atmosphere of the First Five-Year Plans, the shock troops of communist labor and the heyday of Soviet music, multiplied by the gastronomic delights of the Soviet holiday!
Party activists, the foremost workers and drones, workers of LGBT organisation! We are waiting for you on December 26th at 18 o’clock in the House of LGBT culture (Ligovsky Pr d. 87, office 300, third floor)!