Coming Out appealed to the General Prosecutor’s office to initiate a case against deputy Sergei Andenko

St. Petersburg organisation of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders “Coming Out” has filed an appeal to the General Prosecutor’s office of Russian Federation, in which it asks to initiate a criminal case against vice-speaker of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, “United Russia” deputy Sergei Andenko in connection to his slanderous statements expressing discriminatory attitude towards the social group of gays and lesbians.
In the applicants opinion while commenting St. Petersburg Ombudsman Aleksei Kozyrev’s statement on the impossibility of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in regards to the issue of granting permissions for public actions of February 8, 2010 on ZakS.ru website Sergei Andenko expressed himself in a way that was humiliating human dignity of homosexual people and that provoked hatred against them…




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.

Organisation “ComingOut”, Russian LGBT Network and Side by Side movie festival join German Russian Exchange to celebrate the World Volunteer Day! On December 5 we invite you in 406 office at Ligovsky 87 at 18.30 to appreciate your active work and to celebrate this wonderful day together with you!
On September 26th a seminar for journalists took place.
