Coming Out

[ 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.

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.

Dear friends,

This Saturday, February 21, we are going to discuss the following issue:” Is it hard for a same-sex family to survive in our society?” at the ComingOutInfo workshop. Dr Mark Kucherov, who is the famous psychiatrist and PhD in medicine, will help us to deal with the problem.

We are going to talk about myths that surround same-sex couples, joys and hardships of their lives, raising children, ups and downs in relationships, family crises, relatives, neighbors, parents, colleagues, friends and so on.

Yet another session of ComingOutCinema, on December 20 (Saturday), will be dedicated to the questions of religion and homosexuality. We will show the documentary film Fish Can’t Fly (USA, 2005, 83 min.).

Main theme of the film is “reparative therapy”, which is offered by several Christian and some near-religious groups as means of curing homosexuality. The film tells the story of several religious gays and lesbians who at one point in time decided to cure their sexual orientation and sought help from religious “specialists.” These stories can’t leave you indifferent, as people tell about years of their lives spent “tilting at windmills.” Through the prism of their lives the viewer sees the lies that entangle the ex-gay industry in the West.

Dear friends,

On December 13, 2008, ComingOutCinema showed a film called A Love to Hide. This evening was dedicated to all the gays and lesbians who suffered from repressions based on their sexual orientation at the time the Article 121 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, passed in 1934, was still in existence. Up till the abolition of this article in 1993, gays and lesbians in the USSR and Russia were persecuted: men were thrown in jail, women were “treated” in psychiatric institutions.

The Russian LGBT Network (www.lgbtnet.ru) declared 2009 to be Memorial Year for the gay and lesbian victims of political repressions.

Read on about how the ComingOutCinema evening, dedicated to the memory of the victims, went…

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