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What We Do During the brief time it has been in existence, the Organization organized and successfully carried out three events. The first event was the Day of Silence, which took place on May 3, 2008, under the umbrella of the International Day of Silence, and was dedicated to the problem of silencing the discrimination, emotional harassment, violence, hate crimes, and intolerance to LGBT. The event took form of a series of individual rallies and was widely covered by the mass media. More The second event to be held was a one-day festival of lesbian and gay culture, the MiniFest. The goal of the festival was consolidation of the LGBT community and promoting the fight against internal homophobia. More than 60 people attended the festival and enjoyed performances by poet/singer Olga Krauze, poets Marina Chen and Nikita Podvysotsky, rock group pinKot, as well as a travesty show by Babetta Dimanche, Kristina Flamingo, and Alisher. More The third event successfully carried out by the Organization Coming Out was the International Conference of LGBT Organizations of the Northern and Eastern Europe "On Our Way to Strength." The Conference was organized by the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights (RFSL). The Organization Coming Out hosted the Conference. More In addition to the above, members of the Organization are participating in the project for monitoring of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, led by the Russian LGBT Network jointly with the Moscow Helskinki Group (MHG), gathering information on discrimination by interviewing the victims and monitoring the mass media of St. Petersburg. More

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