Bright Coming Out on the April streets
April 4, on Saturday night, Nevsky prospect looked totally bemused in its most crowded portion stretching from Vosstaniya square to Kazansky cathedral. And a small wonder: a bunch of cool and smiling guys and girls was making its way through the crowd. How did they do it? Very simply: by handing out anti-homophobia flyers, postcards reading “Limits are conditional” and “Homophobia-free city” to all who cared to take them.
This flashmob became a beautiful finishing touch to the Week without Homophobia. There were about twenty of us, and twice as much as the similar action gathered the last year.
On the 23th of March in the office of the historic-educational human rights non-government organization “Memorial” in Saint-Petersburg there was a commemoration meeting of gay and lesbians – the victims of political repressions. As experts and guests were invited the Director of research-and-development center “Memorial” Irina Flige, the president of “Memorial” Sergey Hahaev, the cofounder of “Memorial” Tatjana Kosinova, the president of the society “The Positive Dialog” Nikolaj Panchenko, the poet Olga Krause and the president of Russian LGBT Network Igor Petrov.
On November 8 we have started the new project of ComingOut - it is called ComingOutCinema and it includes weekly shows of movies, rarely seen seen in Russia and dedicated to various LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues with after-movie discussions of topics последующим обсуждением тем, touched upon in the movies.
