Coming Out

[ 27/02/2010; 18:00:00 to 21:00:00. ]

27 February, 2010 (Saturday), 6 p.m., “Green Lamp” press club

A documentary “Herr Schmidt und Herr Friedrich” (Germany, 2001, 70 min., directed by Ulrike Franke, Michael Loeken)

[ 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!

Saint Petersburg, November 3. The winners of the second international LGBT film festival “Side by Side” are announced. The festival started on October 23 and ran till October 31. About two thousand people attended the festival movie shows during these days.

[ 22/08/2009; 18:00:00 to 21:00:00. 18:00:00 to 21:00:00. ]

Dear friends,

the first ComingOutCinema of a new season 2009-2010 which takes place on Saturday, August 22nd, will be opened by the film, devoted to the Memorial Day of victims of totalitarian regime.
The LGBT-organization “Coming Out” supports the Resolution of Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE dated July 3rd, 2009, which has assigned the day of the 23rd of August in Europe as the Memorial Day of victims of Stalinism and Nazism for the memory preservation of the victims of mass executions and deportations.

[ 30/05/2009; 18:00:00 to 21:00:00. ]

Dear friends,

ComingOutInfo will take place on 30th May (Saturday) at 18.00, which will be dedicated to gay-pride. We are going to listen the following reports: “Gay-pride from the point of view of the civil society. Gay-pride in Europe and Russia: the newest history”. We will have an opportunity to listen “pro” and “contra”, discuss the gay-pride importance to LGBT-movement progress, and explore the western and Russian experience.

[ 18/04/2009; 18:00:00 to 21:00:00. ]

Dear friends,

ComingOutCinema comes to new horizons - CinemaHorizons. This is the name of the project of public organization “The German-Russian Exchange”, within the bounds of which young Russian and foreign volunteers watch films and discuss various themes.

Dear friends,

the Week against homophobia continues and on this Saturday, March 28, at 6 p.m. we are going to show you the documentary film “The Times of Harvey Milk” by the American director Rob Epstein in the context of our project ComingOutCinema. This film was shot in 1984 and has since obtained many prestigious awards.

Dear Friends,

Kinovykhod and Infovykhod Projects are taking time-out till 28th of March 2009.

Meanwhile we are going to collect your points of view regarding these projects and are glad to invite you to think about the conception of their further development.

To understand community demands we’ve made up a brief and simple questionnaire.

On 28^th of February, at 19.00 in the frame of ComingOutCinema Project the film “Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema” will be shown.

It is one of the few documentary films to reflect the development of LGBT Cinema and its meaning for LGBT activism. Along with History of Queer Cinematography the film tells about homophobia issues and well-known actresses and actors’ coming-out.

The original name: «Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema», directors Lisa Aids, Lesley Kleinberg, documentary, USA, 2006, 82 min.

Our next ComingOutCinema takes place on Valentine’s Day, February 14. As always, we invite you to join us to watch a movie, this time about the vicissitude of love and sex.
“Happy Endings” (USA), 2005, director: Don Roos, genre: drama, comedy, 128 min.
Ten parallel stories about the oddities of love. One of the short stories deals with a father and a son dating the same woman. Another story is about a girl who gave up her child for adoption and later meets a guy who warns her that he knows where her offspring lives now. Two lesbians made use of a gay friend to get pregnant and told him it didn’t work out, but their two-year-old son looks just like him. These and other intricate stories about love and sex only mean one thing: All’s well that ends well.