Coming Out

On April 24 and 25, 2010 there was Day of Silence in Russia. Day of Silence is an international protest against discrimination, harassment and abuse faced by lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBTs) and the silencing of these problems.

This year 31 city participated in the Day Of Silence in one way or another: Abakan, Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Voronezh, Vyborg, Glazov, Yekaterinburg, Ivanovo, Izhevsk, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Kirov, Krasnodar, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Novokuznetsk, Oboyan, Omsk, Perm, Petrozavodsk, Pskov, Samara, St. Petersburg, Severodvinsk, Syktyvkar, Tyumen, Cheboksary, Chelyabinsk, Cherepovets. For the first time Ukraine took part in the Day Of Silence this year. It was held in Kharkov.

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:

On Sunday, April 26th, a series of single rallies, dedicated to the International Day of Silence which took place on April 25th in Russia, has been conducted in St. Petersburg. The Day of Silence is an international action of nonviolent protest, dedicated to the attracting public attention to the issue of silencing the discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and hate (homophobia) crimes.

On April 25th the “Silent Flashmob” took place in St. Petersburg. More than 70 representatives of LGBT-community and friendly heterosexuals went into the Nevsky prospect to attract general population’s attention to the problem of silencing the cases of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and hate (homophobia) crimes.

DAY OF SILENCE

On April 25^th the “Silence flashmob” will take place. This is an action timed to the International Day of Silence and dedicated to the attracting the public’s attention to the issue of silencing the discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and hate (homophobia) crimes.

On April 22^nd the activists of LGBT (lesbians, geys, bisexuals, transgenders) organization “Coming Out” received an answer from the Administration of the Central District of St. Petersburg containing refusal in the endorsement of rally planned on April 25^th, since “the announced place of public event’s conduction is on the territory directly adjacent to the metro station “Vladimirskaya”, so the carrying out of the rally with the participation of close on 35 people will make it impossible to guarantee safe and free pass of pedestrians and passengers of metro”, and because of city-wide community work day planned on April 25^th as well.

[ 25/04/2009; 14:00:00 to 16:00:00. ]

Day of Silence

The International Day of Silence is dedicated to the issue of silencing the discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. This annual action of nonviolent protest started in the US in 1996 and in Europe in 2007.

On April 25, 2009, for the second time in Russia, the Day of Silence will take place.

Please see the official site of the Day of Silence here!