tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12501980459951108852024-02-07T19:21:36.771+01:00TupilakQueer cultural workers in the Nordic areawebmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667020764201250488noreply@blogger.comBlogger189125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250198045995110885.post-11980777122891334772022-07-20T17:59:00.001+02:002022-07-20T17:59:31.430+02:00TUPILAK / ILGCN Culture Evening / "Golden Tupilak" & "Elli's Rainbow" Award Ceremony<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><b>Your are warmly welcome to TUPILAK / ILGCN's Culture Evening with Award Ceremony for the prizes "Golden Tupilak" and "Elli's Rainbow".</b></span></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The evening will take place July 30, 2022, 19.00-21.00 at Hjorthagen Culture Center (Artemisgatan 19 -- Tube station: Ropsten)</span></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq4BVgAZh4QYK0XwCl9JB-700w135h47Bk63gcXI8W6AY33FciTS7jPq018IpcN21PjX26mV56KhPgtaBeXcKwgkl4t2sUv9CEBIkux4oqLmNwCb9GdwPo8Z9UPKoligLLBn7YCoLHo6N31EDzMtKHEkN2J7rPnJAYDrACsD-QhM6zyWj5eGXIyyqPhQ/s768/SCW_8232_20191204110134619.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq4BVgAZh4QYK0XwCl9JB-700w135h47Bk63gcXI8W6AY33FciTS7jPq018IpcN21PjX26mV56KhPgtaBeXcKwgkl4t2sUv9CEBIkux4oqLmNwCb9GdwPo8Z9UPKoligLLBn7YCoLHo6N31EDzMtKHEkN2J7rPnJAYDrACsD-QhM6zyWj5eGXIyyqPhQ/s320/SCW_8232_20191204110134619.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle" style="background-color: white; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Award ceremonies: "Golden Tupilak" for outstanding rainbow cultural and historic contributions to Sue Sanders, Emeritus Professor Harvey Milk Institute 2015 and initiator of UK LGBT History Month/Schools Out-UK.</span></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Sanders?fbclid=IwAR3fQAA7GlF26EjuoANVkArNSpaL055P5HVEdH9vkFIunP7Ijpmsfp6wXMo" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">"Elli's Rainbow" for LGBTQI+ culture focusing a valuable spotlight on the elderly -- to Matt Cain, UK, writer and author of "The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle".</span></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl gpro0wi8 py34i1dx" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cain_(writer)?fbclid=IwAR0AiXKLSp_vizC3Ng0PukW5KRnFXMMKGxRaHso6qFdOpgRjdkTp4jwPfJY" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><b>Warmly welcome!</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Tupilakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655744228454321571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250198045995110885.post-26377497082667929422022-07-20T17:46:00.000+02:002022-07-20T17:46:01.234+02:00Professor Sue Sanders on The Experience of Campaigning for LGBT+ Rights Over the Last 50 Years - TUPILAK på Pride House 2022<p><span style="font-family: arial;">- TUPILAK at Pride House 2022</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaY-eyTukCahmfnAdbs2BYMdh-KfaZSMUY5kLAoxKpA8179sqQxfO_hpzfrWivrXu53UzUN23k8wQqPbJp3lPg3XmWcd9Ja4wEmIbC4FpqbLprq9EqWrR9NfXpCge-jY8K6HSyg1FWRFBf2vc0EwhY1ZFNTVxBkflYYipAcnbD1oOO1Qy4AVsQP3yH8A/s826/Sue-Sanders-Picture.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="826" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaY-eyTukCahmfnAdbs2BYMdh-KfaZSMUY5kLAoxKpA8179sqQxfO_hpzfrWivrXu53UzUN23k8wQqPbJp3lPg3XmWcd9Ja4wEmIbC4FpqbLprq9EqWrR9NfXpCge-jY8K6HSyg1FWRFBf2vc0EwhY1ZFNTVxBkflYYipAcnbD1oOO1Qy4AVsQP3yH8A/s320/Sue-Sanders-Picture.png" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> (Photo: </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">https://pride365.world/champions/sue-sanders/)</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Professor Sue Sanders on <b><i>The Experience of Campaigning for LGBT+ Rights Over the Last 50 Years</i></b> </span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Monday 1 august 14:00-14:45</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Pride House (C9, Plan 2), Clarion Hotel Stockholm, Ringvägen 98, Stockholm</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Sue Sanders is Emeritus Professor Harvey Milk Institute 2015 (born 1947 in London). She is an "out and proud" lesbian, a British LGBT+ rights activist who has specialised in challenging oppression in the public and voluntary sectors for over 50 years.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Sue Sanders:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Sanders">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Sanders</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Schools Out UK:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://www.schools-out.org.uk/">http://www.schools-out.org.uk/</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">LGBT+ History Month UK:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/">https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/</a><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Tupilakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08655744228454321571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250198045995110885.post-46111875907372040182019-05-07T13:09:00.001+02:002019-05-07T14:57:41.969+02:00IDAHO Day & 101 Years of Estonian Independence<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">IDAHO Day & 101 Years of Estonian Independence<br />Estonia House May 17, 2019<br /></span></u></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Music/song/Art</b><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">/<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">LGBT poetry:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Music: Robert Hill, Sweden<br /><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Art work: Alice of Tallinn, Juri Marann of Tartu (slides)<br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Film trailer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"I Let her Out"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- Joosep, Estonia<br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Music:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christine Zawall, Sweden<br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Monologue:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Gay Angels of Vilnius Ghetto" -- Bill Schiller, Tupilak/ILGCN<br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Film: " LGBT Monument" -- Willi Reichhold, Sweden<br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Music/song: Peter “Xeller8” Fröberg, Sweden<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Swedish-Estonian co-operation -- October, 2019 -- Bill Schiller, ILGCN/Tupilak:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Participation in Heartfest film festival with Tupilak(ILGCN art and photos...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Seminars on Tove Jansson, etc. in Tallinn, Tartu...?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and 1st Nordic Pride October 28-30...?<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Film salute to all in Estonia and world-wide with HIV/AIDS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />Late gay Brazilian, Renato Russo with "Amori Strani"<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">ILGCN's 3rd
Nordic Rainbow History& Culture Month October, 2018, Stockholm stage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">_______________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">MONDAY, October
15<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(19:00-21:00)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
Hornstulls Strand 9 (T-ban Hornstull) Limited access.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Nordic Month days in Södertälje, International
LGBT History Hubs” – Sarah Florén, Tupilak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">-"Gay and Lesbian History in Austria – and
privileged contact to the early movement in Eastern Europe in the 1980´s” –
Kurt<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Krickler, HOSI-Wien<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"The Power of Rainbow Culture -- weapon
against homophobia and silence" -- ILGCN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Gay art in Colorado" -- Victor
Adeniran , USA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Music & Song – Dosan Johansson, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2nd BEARS INTERNATIONAL
CULTURE FESTIVAL (day 1)<br />
Hornstulls Strand 9 (T-ban Hornstull) Limited access.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Why Bears on the Rainbow
Barricades?"-- John Earhart - Norwegian Bears; Bill Schiller- Bears
International; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>TUESDAY, October 16 (19.00-22:00) SECRET GARDEN<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
(Kornhamnstorg 59) (T-bana Gamla Stan)<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">”Rainbow Music vs. Homophobia"-- Jan
Hammarlund, Swedish singer, songwriter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Humanists on the Rainbow Barricades" --
Rolf Solheim, Norway, Nordic Humanists<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Rainbows in Australia" - Australian
Ambassador Jonathan Kenna<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"History of RFSL, Latvian comments" -
Kjell Rindar, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Art of David Amin" – Iraq/Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Amnesty and LGBT Visibility" - Ulf
Andersson, editor Amnesty Press, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">“Music/song, "Autumn Song" (text of
Tove Jansson) - Peter Fröberg , Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>At the same venue:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2nd BEARS INTERNATIONAL CULTURE FESTIVAL
(day 2)<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">--"Nordic Co-operation with Bears in
Eastern Europe” -- John Earhart of Norwegian Bears, Bill Schiller – Bears
International, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Written statements from Andrus – Lokys
Bears-Belarus; Vladimir - Moscow Bears; Alexei - Petersburg Bears; Alvar
Ameljushenko - Bearty-Tallinn, Estonia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">WEDNESDAY, October
17 (19.00-21.00)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
COSMOPOLITE bar (T-bana Hornstull)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(Långholmsg. 28)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Hate Crimes" -- Göran Stanton,
Swedish Police<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Why No LGBT Monument in Sweden? -- Bill
Schiller, ILGCN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Film: "LGBT Monuments" -- Willi
Reichhold, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Rainbow Culture in a Dictatorship"
-- Belarus refugees, Edward Tarletsky -Minsk, Sidnimax<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Rainbows in Canada" – Eric
Petersson, political counsellor, Canadian<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Embassy<br />
Film: "Narcissus" - Norman Mclaren, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the same venue:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2nd BEARS
INTERNATIONAL CULTURE FESTIVAL (day 3):<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Bear Art, Photography, Films" – Bill
Schiller – Bears International , <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">THURSDAY, October
18(14.00-17.00)</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
MELLANRUM Gallery <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Mellanbergvägen 100)
(T-ban Hägerstenåsen)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LGBT Art & Photography -- Lightning
Vernissage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">(18.00-19.00)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>SIDETRACK pub<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
(Wollmar Yxkullsg. 7)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(T-ban
Mariatorget) --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rainbow poetry<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>TIME bar<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(20.00 -22.00)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></u></b><br />
(Hornsgatan 174 )<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(T-Bana Hornstull)<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
"Rainbow
Journalism/Homonationalism" -- Anna- Maria Sörberg, Sweden<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
"Gay Seniorer --
viktig möte för älder män" -- Hans Nordh, Gay Seniorer.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"The Power of Rainbow Culture -- weapon
against homophobia and silence" -- ILGCN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="DA" style="mso-ansi-language: DA;">"LGBT Sports & Culture" - Henrik Husgafvel,
Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Rainbows in a Homophobic Hungary" --
ILGCN Hungary<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At the same venue:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">2nd BEARS
INTERNATIONAL CULTURE FESTIVAL (day 4): <br />
"Bears on the March --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>future Bear activities”</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">. - <br />
Bill Schiller - Bears International, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">TUESDAY, October 23
(19-00-21.00)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br />
International rainbow poetry -Tomas Åberg, Sweden, etc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">bill@tupilak.org<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>facebooks: "ILGCN,"
"Tupilak<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"Bill Schiller"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">ILGCN RAINBOW CULTURE CONFERENCE TAKES PLACE IN BUDAPEST </span></b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 12px;">Press release from the ILGCN Information Secretariat: July 5, 2017</b><br />
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<b><i><br /></i></b><b><i>Budapest </i></b>-- Seminars on LGBT culture and history, films, music, poetry, art and photography were part of the ILGCN (international rainbow culture network) international cultural conference -- July 3-4, 2017 part of this year-s Budapest Pride.</div>
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Also discussions on the role of "Bears on the Barricades," the role of trans persons in rainbow history and culture, immigrants/refugee contributions to LGBT culture, the importance of rainbow humanists and the anti-fascist movement on the rainbow barricades -- especially in nations facing growing threats from violent neo-nazis, intolerant politicans, negative media and homophobic religious leaders. Discussions also covered research in the Nazi and neo Nazi persecution of homosexuals -- followed 10 years after the liberation of Auschwitz by Franco's Tefía concentration camp in Spain, and the growing number of LGBT monuments paying tribute to LGBT people arrested, imprisoned, and murdered over the millinnems.</div>
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Art and photography illustrated the works of colleagues from Poland, Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Finland and elsewhere. Films included the Canadian <b>"Beyond Pride"</b> covering prides in Vancouver, Sri Lanka, Brazil and Russia and the British drama <b>"Unchechen"</b> displaying the recent wave of persecution and violance against gays in the Chechnyan republic of Russia. </div>
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Participants requested another such conference in the Hungarian capital next year. The 2nd stage of this year's conference is planned for one of the 14 Nordic cities of the <b>2nd Nordic Rainbow History & Art Month</b> this October -- an event inspired by the LGBT history months taking place in London for over a decade and the LGBT history month in Budapest.</div>
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The Budapest conference was also supported by <b>Tupilak</b> <i>(Nordic rainbow culture workers)</i>, <b>European Rainbow Humanists</b> and <b>Bears International.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <b><i> Stockholm</i></b> --
Presentations, poetry, art, and film screenings were part of the <b>Tupilak</b> <i>(Nordic
rainbow culture workers) </i>and the<b> ILGCN </b><i>(rainbow
culture international)</i> -arranged event at the Old Town gay-friendly
pub <b>Secret Garden </b>marked May 17 as the international day
against homophobia and transphobia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> Presentations included program plans from the Södertälje
Art Hall producer <b>Sarah Florén</b> for the October 13-14 part of
the <b>2nd Nordic Rainbow History & Art Month</b> and <b>Bill
Schiller</b> on the other 12 Nordic cities in the October Month --
ranging from Reykjavik to Vilnius.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <b>Andrea Sjöfel</b>t presented the outslines of her
seminar "scientific rascism in the care system yesterday and today for
transgender people" to be deliverind in full in Stockholm and
Södertälje during the Nordic Month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> Sccreened films included <b>"Komet", </b>by <b>Victor
LIndgren </b>about LGBT refugees coming to Sweden and <b>"Stockholm
Daybreak"</b> by<b> Elin Övergaard </b>about two young gays
with dawn hangovers slowly waking up to their true sexual orientation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> The Stockholm event also expressed special
greetings to colleagues in the northern Swedish city of <b>Umeå</b> --
also marking this as IDAHOT Day and screening the film <b>"Komet" </b>with
the prescence of the film director participating in a panel discussion..<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the dictatorships of <b>Belarus </b>and <b>Chechnya.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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writer <b>Jan Hammarlund </b>performed and Tupilak's <b>Tommy
Åberg</b> read his poetry.<br /><br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> ILGCN awards announced included the <b>"Roger
Casement" 2017 </b>dipoma for journalism (named after the human
rights pioneering homosexual executed by the British 101 years ago) going to
the <b>Russian LGBT Network</b> reporting on the persecution and
murder of Chechnyan gays, Russian journalist<b> Elena Milasjina</b> of <b><i>Novaja
Gazeta</i></b>, facing death threats for reporting on the situation in
Chechnya. and <b>Ulf Andersson,</b> editor of Sweden's <b>Amnesty
Press</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> The ILGCN <b>"Rainbow Warrior"</b> <b>2017 </b>was
announced , going for the first time posthumously to French policeman, <b>Xavier
Jugelé</b>, a popular gay activist murdered in a recent terrorist attack in
Paris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> ILGCN film awards for the coming year went to
the U.S/Russian documentary, <b>"Campaign of Hate," </b>the
annual LGBT film festival in St. Petersburg <b>"Side by Side"</b> and
the British short-film drama <b>"Unchechnen"</b> about
the violent mistreatment of gays in Chena.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> Also, a call for a pink dollar boycott of
tourism and investment in <b>Indonesia -</b>- with the news of the
sentencing of two young gays to 85 cane lashings -- sentenced on IDAHTO day as
pointed out in the international news media.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> A special IDAHOT salute was made to the young-
2-years-old <b>Ukrainina Bears</b>, organizing international Bear events
during the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev, helping challenge the stereotypes
often describing gays as "half" men in the Eastern European media,
political and religious circles -- undesering of human rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> And a Swedish skål was made to American
whistleblower,<b> Chelsea Manning</b>, released on IDAHOT Day after 7
years in prison.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stockholm event: <b>Bears International </b>and <b>Nordic
Rainbow Humanists</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> On this May 17,<b> 2017 IDAHOT Day</b>,
two slender gay men in their 20’s in Indonesia have been found guilty
of having gay sex and have been sentenced to prison and 85 cane lashes
each. Such a high number of flesh-cutting lashes can be a death sentence
even for strong, muscular men let alone frail youngsters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The BBC tv and Al Jazeera reports showing the men taken into a police bus also
reported that the young men wept when hearing the verdict. The reports
also emphasized that the sentence came on the world day against homophobia.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The<b> ILGCN</b>,<b> Tupilak,</b> <b>Nordic Rainbow
Humanists</b> and <b>Bears International</b> not only send a
loud protest – but also call for a global rainbow cultural, tourist and
investment boycott of Indonesia -- a nation spending huge amounts of
money daily on BBC television advertising in hopes of attracting more foreign
investments and foreign tourists to Indonesia.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tourist adds display a harmonious people, beautiful scenery, and much food – to
the song of the long-deceased American musician, Louis Armstrong, singing about
"green trees and red roses, too...in a wonderful world.”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> We
propose that this rainbow boycott begins on this <b>IDAHOT Day, May 17,
2017</b>.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b> Bill Schiller</b>, Stockholm</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Nya styrelsen (nytt blod behövs!) Planering för Tupilaks verksamhet 2017.</div>
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New steering committee! (New blood welcome!) Planning for 2017 activities .</div>
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Förslag till nya projekter, samarbetet, verksamhet..? Proposals for new projects, co-operation, activities...?</div>
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Före anmälning bäst! Kom i tid (ingen bevakning på mottagning!)</div>
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=sv&q=http://www.tupilak.org/2015/10/tupilak-belarus-lgbt-journalist-contest.html&source=gmail&ust=1477151531977000&usg=AFQjCNErX8_iGKfM1cbt1jBHJrE591_4-Q" href="http://www.tupilak.org/2015/10/tupilak-belarus-lgbt-journalist-contest.html" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tupilak & ‘Journalists for Tolerance’ Campaign of Belarus LGBT Journalists Announce Contest for Anti-discrimination Reporting!!</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CONTEST:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ‘The Best Anti-Discrimination Journalist in Belarus-2016’ </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TUPILAK (Queer Cultural Workers in the Nordic Region, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=sv&q=http://www.tupilak.org&source=gmail&ust=1477151531977000&usg=AFQjCNGx-Yj2RpYEUx2N_-TJpObVDUxrTA" href="http://www.tupilak.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.tupilak.org</a>) in cooperation with the ‘Journalists for Tolerance’ Campaign of Belarusian LGBT Journalists (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=sv&q=http://www.gaypress.eu&source=gmail&ust=1477151531977000&usg=AFQjCNGjyqAbQ6NW-rLp2Y-x1TLIc21cGg" href="http://www.gaypress.eu/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.gaypress.eu</a>) announces a professional contest for the Belarusian journalists on the best anti-discrimination reporting. The best authors of articles and/or photo-audio-video reports, fostering equality of vulnerable social groups in the Belarusian society will be announced on the International Human Rights Day on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 10, 2016</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winners will receive a special award from the contest organizers. Also, the winner will have a possibility to visit LGBT organizations in Stockholm, in order to prepare topical publications, in 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is suggested that the contest materials have to appear in the media within the period since </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">November 1, 2015</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> till </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">October 31, 2016</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The contest materials have to be submitted to the e-mail address </span><a href="mailto:gayjour@gmail.com?Subject=The%20Best%20Anti-Discrimination" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gayjour@gmail.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for consideration no later than on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">November 30, 2016</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Культурніцкая ЛГБТ-арганізацыя Паўночных краінаў ТУПІЛАК сумесна з ініцыятывай “Журналісты за талерантнасць” і сайтам Gaypress у </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">пяты раз</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> абвяшчае прафесійны конкурс на найлепшы журналісцкі матэрыял на антыдыскрымінацыйную праблематыку.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="m_-4895237697845698293gmail-kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Аўтары найлепшых друкаваных і Інтэрнэт-артыкулаў і/ці фота-аўдыё-відэа рэпартажаў, якія прасоўваюць ідэю роўнасці і недыскрымінацыі ўразлівых сацыяльных групаў у беларускім грамадстве, будуць абвешчаныя ў Міжнародны дзень правоў чалавека – </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">10 снежня 2016 года</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: calibri; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Пераможца конкурсу атрымае адмысловую ўзнагароду, а таксама будзе мець магчымасць наведаць ЛГБТ-арганізацыі ў Стакгольме з мэтай падрыхтоўкі тэматычных публікацыяў на працягу 2017 года. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Чакаецца, што конкурсныя матэрыялы павінны з’явіцца ў прэсе ў перыяд з </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 лістапада 2015 г.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> па </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">31 кастрычніка 2016 года</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Матэрыялы конкурсу маюць быць скіраваныя на разгляд журы на электронны адрас </span><a href="mailto:gayjour@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gayjour@gmail.com</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> не пазней за </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">30 лістапада 2016 года</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667020764201250488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250198045995110885.post-13595364580647103562016-10-05T14:04:00.001+02:002019-05-16T12:37:33.245+02:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b><u><span lang="EN-US">TUPILAK ILGCN
NORDIC ASSOCIATION BEARS
INTERNATIONAL<br />
1st NORDIC RAINBOW HISTORY & ART MONTH – October</span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">(Umeå -- October 1-2, Stockholm – October 3-25,
Vilnius -- October 29-31, 2016)<br />
www.ilgcn.tupilak.org www.tupilak.org contact: <a href="mailto:bill@tupilak.org">bill@tupilak.org</a><br />
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<b><u>Panel discussions, presentations,
films, poetry, art & photography, music, song, monologues<o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Program.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">Art Exhibit</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US"> – <br />
SALONG LUGO (October 1-31) - Luke Darko of Paris; Vladiks of Minsk;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Kennet Lindquist of Stockholm, Anastasia Medco
of Kiev<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">WEDNESDAY, October
5 – 19.00-21.00 SECRET GARDEN</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US"><br />
(Kornhamnstorg 59) (T-ban Gamla Stan)<br />
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Focus on Estonia: Estonian art, CD music<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ireland: 100th year since execution of Roger Casement. ’Black Diaries’ journalism award for Belarus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on LGBT Iran: Film: "Out of
Iran" - Farid Haerinejad,
Iran/Canada. Iranian voices.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">International rainbow poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">THURSDAY, October 6
– 18.00-19.00 SIDETRACK
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Wollmar Yxkullsg. 7 (T-bana Mariatorget)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Leather/Fetisch/Bears – Jan Kopriwa –
Lederverkstaden Leather art – Celso
Junior,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Brazil/Portugal, Jan Stary of Prague, Ingemar
of Sweden, Tom of Finland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ILGCN History Salute to Pink Armenia. International
rainbow poetry<br />
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">FRIDAY, October
7 -- 19.00-21.00 NORDIC
ASSOCIATION<br />
</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US">(Drottninggatan
30) (T-bana Centralen)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on prostitution: “Lilies of the Streets”
-- Ananda Walkabout, Sweden, Apila Miettinen, Finland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“The Nordic Homo Revolutionen!”--Thorgny
Arwidson, Nordic Association<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Lithuania: Art.<br />
Films: <br />
"Change It, “Baltic Pride 2016
Promo” "-- <br />
LGL Lithuania Nordic ILGCN “Arco Nordica” 2016 to Lithuania <br />
Tupilak “Bifrost” awards 2016 to
Lithuania, Sweden Nordic Rainbow Network – a new creation for Nordic
co-operation, rainbow cultural exchange<br />
Focus on Iceland: Films: "Hördur
Torfasson: The Peaceful Revolution." Icelandic CD music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">INSTÄLLT PÅ GRUND AV POLIS OCH BYRÅKRATI SOM STÄNGT LOKALEN</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">INSTÄLLT PÅ GRUND AV POLIS OCH BYRÅKRATI SOM STÄNGT LOKALEN</span></u></b><br />
<b><u><span lang="EN-US">1st Rainbow Art
Fair<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">SATURDAY, October
8 --
16.00-23.00 RÖKRIDÅ<br />
(Rökerigatan 9) (T-bana Globen)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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Vernissage-16.00<br />
Pågor hela kvällen med olika uppträdanden, bar och dans.<br />
Utställare: Andrea Sjöfelt, Kennet Lindquist, Bo Bergstrand, Ars Sonor,
Marcello Lentini, Luke Darko<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Anti-Fascism Photo Exhibition” -- Vilmos Hanti, President of Association of
Anti Fascists<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Works from ILGCN/Tupilak International
Travelling Art & Photo Exhibition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Books from “Lilies of the Streets.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Art f ilms: "Natten är min” (Eugene
Jansson) -- Olle Holm, “LGBT Monuments”-
Willi Reichhold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">gallery music: Ars Sonor <br />
songs/music: Elise Ria , Jan Hammarlund
<br />
MusikBand: Gränsen </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">INSTÄLLT PÅ GRUND AV POLIS OCH BYRÅKRATI SOM STÄNGT LOKALEN</span></u></b><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;">INSTÄLLT PÅ GRUND AV POLIS OCH BYRÅKRATI SOM STÄNGT LOKALEN</span></u></b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><u><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red;"><br /></span></u></b></span>
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_____________________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">ILGCN World Rainbow
Cultural Conference 2016 (stage 2)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<b><u>MONDAY, October 10 15.00-17.00 POSITHIVAGRUPPEN<br />
(Tjurbergsgatan 29) (T-bana Skanstull)<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Differently Abled: Kait Bessing,
Frequency Alcyone .<br />
<br />
Film trailer: “The Way He Looks” – Daniel
Ribeiro, Brazil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Nazi Persecution of LGBT's." “Neo Nazi Persecution” Colin de la Motte-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sherman -
ILGCN History Secretariat - Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Film: <br />
"LGBT Monuments;"-- Willi
Reichhold, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Spain: Homage to the “Grey Ghosts of Tefía,” (Franco’s
gay concentration camp)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Moldova – Ana Furtuna, Civil Rights
Defenders<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Film: <br />
"We Can Be Gay Today" (1st
Vilnius Pride) - Francois Message,
France<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">TUESDAY, October
11 19.00-21.00 NORDIC ASSOCIATION<br />
(Drottninggatan 30) (T-banaCentralen)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Brazil: "Music against the
Dictatorship" -- Anders Ödvall, ILGCN ambassador - Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Brazilian songs Homage to Brazil’s Renato Russo
"Strani Amore" on this 20th year of his death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Film trailer:<br />
"The Way He Looks" - Daniel
Ribeiro, Brazil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Humanism and LGBT. David Verés, chair
of European Rainbow Humanists, Hungary,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Bill Schiller – international secretary of
Nordic Rainbow Humanists; Thomas Lovas, Budapest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Hungary: <br />
Thomas Lovas, ILGCN East European
Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Anti-Facism: <br />
Vilmos Hanti, president of Association of Anti-fascists<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Austrian European
Parliamentarian Ulrike Lunacek’s - EU LGBT video<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Norway: <br />
Film: "Precious Moments" – Lars Daniel Krutzkoff Jacobsen .Art, CD’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><b><u>WEDNESDAY, October 12 -- 19.00-21.00
SECRET GARDEN<br />
(Kornhamnstorg 59) (T-bana Gamla Stan)<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Films:
<br />
Colin de la Motte-Sherman – Berlin;
“Death in Venice” –“Mahler, Visconti, Mann”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Marie Falksten & Sweden’s 1st lesbian film:
<br />
“Eva and Maria”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Karin Lindeqvist: <br />
Sweden’s lst LGBT book shop “Medusa,” comments on “Lambda Nordica”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Music:<br />
Ars Sono; Peter Fröberg, Elise
Borderline Johanson, Anders Ödvall, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Carl-Michael Edenborg on Hanns Heinz Ewers,
Germany.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ILGCN’s “Clio and her Silver Cup” 2012
(history) award to Sweden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">THURSDAY, October 13 --
18.00-19.00 SIDETRACK <br />
(Wollmar Yxkullsg. 7) (T-ban
Mariatorget)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Sport is Culture: <br />
gold at EuroGames-Helsinki” – Henrik Husgafvel, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Bears International – Beyond the
Nordic zone: <br />
Bears in Russia, Ukraine, Scotland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Bear art: <br />
Luke Darko, France; Mike Wyeld, U.K;
Charlie Hunter, Canada/UK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Carl-Michael Edenborg – rainbow cultural
activities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">International rainbow poetry <br />
Bears International 2016 art awards<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>INSTÄLLT!!! INSTÄLLT!!!!INSTÄLLT!!</b></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">SATURDAY, October
15 – 19:00-21:00 FOLKLORE CENTRUM<br />
(Wollmar Yxkullsg. 2) (T-bana
Mariatorget)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Africa: <br />
RADO-Uganda, Eddy of Uganda. <br />
Films:<br />
"I am Hannah” -- Marianne Maasa, “Pearl of Africa” – Jonny von
Wallström, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Poetry:<br />
Izzy Young, (and from Allen
Ginsberg). International poetry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Focus on Kazakhstan: <br />
Oleg Ivanov, ILGCN ambassador-Kazakhstan. <span lang="EN-US">“Community” LGBTQ life in <br />
–Kazakhstan, by Olga Malyshera<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Focus on Kyrgyzstan:<br />
– Viktor Novodonov, Alex Mamytov,
Centralasien Grupperna<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Films:"<br />
Dyke Hard," "Hallongrottan
TV" -- Bitte Andersson, Swedish ILGCN culture ambassador<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ILGCN “Wings” film award<br />
Songs, Music: <br />
Robert Hill, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">MONDAY, October
17 -- 15.00-17.00 POSTIVHIVAGRUPPEN<br />
(Tjurbergsgatan 29) (T-bana Skanstull)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on HIV/AIDS:<br />
History of PositHIVagruppen, Noak’s Ark;
Bill Rubino’s Life Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Films:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> "Quilt Project" "Flavor Wrestling for HIV"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Poland: <br />
"Warsaw LGBT Film Festivals."
Film trailers: Malga Kubiak, Ars Sonor, composer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Art: <br />
'Ars Homo Erotica,'-- Pawel Leszkowicz
<br />
Films Clips: <br />
Polish Society of Anti-Discrimination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">TUESDAY, October
18 --
19.00-21.00 NORDIC ASSOCIATION<br />
(Drottninggatan 30) (T-bana Centralen)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Canada: <br />
Eric Petersson, Canadian Embassy. <br />
Films: <br />
"The Politics of Pride"- Bob Christie;<br />
"Thin Lips, Thick Lips" – Paul Lee<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Media:<br />
Anna-Maria Sörberg; Ulf Andersson -
Amnesty Press; Ottar; Kennet Lindquist - SR, ILGCN web Bill Schiller Kurdish Rainbow History &
Culture – Rase Berf, Regnbågskurder
ILGCN Ambassador<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Vogue –
performance dynamite: Harlem to St. Petersburg” – Daniel Lugo, Puerto
Rico/Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Trans films:<br />
"Undress Me" – Viktor
Lindgren, "A Farmer's Desire" – Rebecka Rasmusson<br />
ILGCN “Sappho in Paradise” literature award to Greenland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u>WEDNESDAY, October 19 – 19.00-21.00 SECRET GARDEN<br />
(Kornhamnstorg 59) (T-bana Gamla Stan)<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Belarus & Russia: <br />
Belarus-Russian-Ukraine LGBT in Sweden<br />
Homage to Vadim Kozin – arrested by the KGB in 1944. <br />
Poetry:<br />
Oleg Ivanov, Kazakhstan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ILGCN/Tupilak Russian, Belarus art, photos “Touch” – photos of Mischa Badasyan,
Russia/Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Films:<br />
”Hunted – War Against Gays in Russia" -- Ben Steele, UK;<br />
"They Still Smile"- Irina
Sislova, Minsk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Music: <br />
Elise Ria, Peter Fröberg, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span lang="EN-US">TUESDAY, October 25
-- 19.00-21:00 NORDIC ASSOCIATION<br />
(Drottninggatan 30) (T-bana Centralen)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Britain: British Council & LGBT
culture. <br />
</span>Film: <br />
"Sebastian" – Derek Jarman, UK.<br />
<span lang="EN-US">"Daddy and the Muscle
Academy” -- Ilppo Pohjola<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Tribute to Shakespeare’s 400th<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Poems: <br />
Thomas Åberg, Sweden<br />
<br />
Rainbow Library, Umeå, northern Sweden –
Christer Edeholt<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Bears International , Finnish Bears, Bearty- Estonia, "Bears on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Ice,"- Iceland, "Berserk" –
Denmark, “Dancing Bears” – Norway<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Focus on Latvia, RFSL history - Kjell Rindar,
Sweden<br />
<br />
ILGCN Rainbow Warrior 2016 award to Latvia<br />
Focus on Finland: Tributes to Tove Jansson,Tom of Finland. Linnea S. (on the
Mari – Finland, Russia).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Closing Stockholm phase of 1st Nordic Rainbow
History & Art Month. </span>Salute
to Vilnius phase.<o:p></o:p></div>
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SALONG LUGO
(Regeringsgatan 84 b) (T-ban Hötorget)<o:p></o:p></div>
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POSITHIVAGRUPPEN (Tjurbergsgatan 29) (T-ban Skanstull)<o:p></o:p></div>
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NORDIC ASSOCIATION
(Drottninggatan 30) (T-ban Centralen)<o:p></o:p></div>
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SECRET GARDEN (Kornhamnstorg 59) (T-ban Gamla Stan)<o:p></o:p></div>
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SIDETRACK (Wollmar Yxkullsg. 7) (T-ban Mariatorget)<o:p></o:p></div>
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RÖKRIDÅ (Rökerigatan
9) (T-ban Globen)<o:p></o:p></div>
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FOLKLORE CENTRUM
(Wollmar Yxkullsg. 2) (T-ban Mariatorget)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">TUPILAK CALLING </span><i>August 15, 2016</i></b></div>
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<b><i>______________________________<wbr></wbr>_____________</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>1st TUPILAK ART FAIR <i>-- October 8, 2016</i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Works of <b>Tupilak artists</b> and <b>photographers </b>on display</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">.......and music, films, poetry, mingle </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">at <b>Rökridå </b><i>(Rökerigatan 9) (T-Ban Globen)</i></span></div>
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<b>part of ILGCN's </b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;">1st Nordic Rainbow History & Culture Month </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">- <i>October, 2016</i></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">NOVEMBER 9 -- </span><span style="font-size: medium;">kristallnacht</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></b></div>
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LGBT cultural discussions at the <b>Nordic Bear </b>session in <b>Tallinn. </b></div>
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Tupilak and the Belarus LGBT Journalist Group announce the winner of their 2015 contest for best journalist work combating discrimination and intolerance in the mass media of Belarus is Ulad Shviadovich of the publication, Nasha Niva -- for defending a trans person defamed by a regional newspaper in the city of Mahilou.</div>
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"We salute Ulad for his courage in confronting hate speech, discrimination and ignorance of LGBT rights in the media in this Eastern European country," says <span class="il">Bill</span> Schiller, chairman of Tupilak (Nordic rainbow cultural workers). "It takes extra strength to defy the rampant homophobia displayed by both media, politicians and neo-nazi hooligans in Belarus today."</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Earlier winners have been honored for their work in newspapers and internet publications combating discrimination and homophobia in the Belarus media since the year of 2012.</span></div>
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webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667020764201250488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250198045995110885.post-20643712760247332592015-11-18T11:43:00.006+01:002015-11-18T11:43:39.951+01:00Poetry and Music<div style="background-color: white; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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<b>Eleonora Fors Szuba</b> -- <b><i>Unstraight Museum</i></b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jon Voss, QX</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">- comments</i><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></div>
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<b>Christine Zawall </b>-- poesi</div>
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<b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Tomas Åberg</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 12.8px;">-- poesi </i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Peter "Sexodus" Fröberg</b><i> -- music, songs</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><b>Report on Gotland Pride</b></span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><i>, </i><b><i>Visby </i></b><i>and Tupilak's </i><b style="font-style: italic;">Thor's Hammer 2015 </b><i>award</i></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 12.8px;">"Bo Jangles" </b><span style="font-size: xx-small; font-style: italic;">--</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px; font-style: italic;">a <b>S</b></span><b style="font-size: 12.8px; font-style: italic;">chiller</b><span style="font-size: 12.8px; font-style: italic;"> <wbr></wbr>monologue on prisons, rape, vagabonds, music and AIDS</span></div>
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<b style="color: black; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">ART: </b><span style="color: black; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, sans-serif;">works of </span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, sans-serif;">Pink Armenia, "Nitrate Kisses" - Barbara Hammer, </span></b><i style="color: black; font-family: tahoma, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">USA</i></div>
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TUPILAK (Queer Cultural Workers in the Nordic Region, www.tupilak.org) in cooperation with the Belarusian
LGBT journalists (www.gaypress.eu) announces a professional contest for the Belarusian journalists on the
best anti-discrimination reporting. The best authors of articles and/or photo-audio-video reports, fostering
equality of different social groups in the Belarusian society will be announced on the International Human
Rights Day on December 10, 2015. The winners will receive special awards from the contest organizers.
It is suggested that the contest materials have to appear in the media within the period since September 1,
2014 till October 31, 2015. The contest materials have to be submitted to the e-mail address <br />
<a href="mailto:gayjour@gmail.com?Subject=The%20Best%20Anti-Discrimination" target="_top">gayjour@gmail.com</a>
for considerationno later than on November 30, 2015.<br />
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Увага! Конкурс: “Найлепшы журналіст-барацьбіт з дыскрымінацыяй у Беларусі – 2015”
Культурніцкая ЛГБТ-арганізацыя Паўночных краінаў ТУПІЛАК сумесна з Gaypress абвяшчае
прафесійны конкурс на найлепшы журналісцкі матэрыял на антыдыскрымінацыйную
праблематыку.
Аўтары найлепшых друкаваных і Інтэрнэт-артыкулаў і/ці фота-аўдыё-відэа рэпартажаў, якія
прасоўваюць ідэю роўнасці і недыскрымінацыі розных сацыяльных групаў у беларускім грамадстве,
будуць абвешчаныя ў Міжнародны дзень правоў чалавека – 10 снежня 2015 года.
Пераможцы конкурсу атрымаюць адмысловыя ўзнагароды.
Чакаецца, што конкурсныя матэрыялы павінны з’явіцца ў прэсе ў перыяд з 1 верасня 2014 г. па 31
кастрычніка 2015 года. Матэрыялы конкурсу маюць быць скіраваныя на разгляд журы на электронны
адрас gayjour@gmail.com не пазней за 30 лістапада 2015 года.
CONTEST: ‘The Best Anti-Discrimination Journalist in Belarus-2015’
TUPILAK (Queer Cultural Workers in the Nordic Region, www.tupilak.org) in cooperation with the Belarusian
LGBT journalists (www.gaypress.eu) announces a professional contest for the Belarusian journalists on the
best anti-discrimination reporting. The best authors of articles and/or photo-audio-video reports, fostering
equality of different social groups in the Belarusian society will be announced on the International Human
Rights Day on December 10, 2015. The winners will receive special awards from the contest organizers.
It is suggested that the contest materials have to appear in the media within the period since September 1,
2014 till October 31, 2015. The contest materials have to be submitted to the e-mail address:<br />
<a href="mailto:gayjour@gmail.com?Subject=The%20Best%20Anti-Discrimination" target="_top">gayjour@gmail.com</a>
for consideration no later than on November 30, 2015.
webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667020764201250488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250198045995110885.post-67616083194843348112015-07-19T13:08:00.000+02:002015-07-19T13:08:30.012+02:00Latest Tupilak news:2015-07-19<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><b>Latest Tupilak news:</b></span><br />
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Tupilak will host a seminar "Rainbow culture, history and co-operation with Eastern Europe" at Malmö Pride on Friday, August 7 (15.00) with presentations, films and music. Panel partners: Viking Bears-Stockholm. </div>
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Tupilak will participate again in Umeå Pride with seminars, art, music and award ceremonies. September 17-20, 2015. Join us...?</div>
webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667020764201250488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250198045995110885.post-46409223366748009602015-05-31T19:07:00.003+02:002015-05-31T19:22:19.010+02:00<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Press Release: Stockholm, May 10, 2015<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>ILGCN World Rainbow Cultural Conference</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />One special seminar highlighted the homophobia and censorship in the news media controled by the dictatorship of Belarus -- a seminar presented by participating gay Belarus journalists from Minsk. Another focused on the determination of such publications as Sweden's Amnesty Press to include LGBT rights and culture in its regular human rights coverage.<br /><br />Another presentations came from LGBT Amnesty working on the case of murdered South African lesbian, Noxolo Nogwas. The British documentary film by Ben Steele, "Hunted: the War against Gays in Russia" -- about vigilante groups trapping and beating up gays in Russia -- was followed by a panel discussion with visitors from Russia, Belarus and Kyrgystan thanks to assistance from Sweden's Östgruppen for human rights and democracy in Eastern Europe and Sweden's Central Asia group working with human rights in this area.<br /><br />Other Swedish presentations came from the Rainbow Library in the northern city of Umeå, the Museum of Work of Norrköping on its "elderly LGBT documentation project", Gay Camps and its international program and the PositiHIVagruppen working with men having sex with men, with other seminars dealing with the cultural identity of trans persons and the differently abled and the eldery -- underlined by the documentary film "The Rainbow 's Song" on the elder LGBT's by Nasrin Pakkho, the work with HIV/AIDS in Sweden, the Swedish "Activists in Residence" program which invites in cultural workers from Eastern Europe, and the Swedish Viking Bears underlining the contribution of those breaking the sometimes narrow sterotypes of what LGBT people look like.<br /><br /><b>Seminars, Music, Art, Performances</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was the first ILGCN world conference in Stockholm since 1998. Others have been held in Warsaw/Auschwitz, Rio de Janeiro, Minneapolis and London. The conference was given crucial support by Tupilak (Nordic rainbow cultural workers) and the Nordic Rainbow Humanists -- with an important presentation by Rolf Solheim on the LGBT movement in Norway and the support of the humanist movement for LGBT rights and culture.<br /><br />The conference also included music and sång performances, poetry, film screenings, art, photography and performances as well as a large exhibit of Ugandan handicraft sold to support safe houses in Uganda giving refuge to persecuted LGBT people.<br /><br />Award diplomas handed out during the conference went to Swedish "Dyke Hard" film maker, Bitte Andersson, Russian Elena Klimova facing trial and prison for defyinng the Russian law banning information on homosexuality, and the LGBT organization of the Faroe Islands.,<br /><br />The venutes includes the local of the PositHIVagruppen, the pub Secreta Garden, the local of Senses - human rights group, the gay pub Side Track and the gay-run café Röda Rummet -- essential co-operation for what was largely a 0-budget event..<br /><br />The 2nd stage of this year's conference will be held in Palanga -- with invitations from Lithuanian collegues to the event read out at the confernce.. Contact the ILGCN Information Secretariat-Stockholm or Lithuanian ILGCN organizers, Darius or Arvydas Vogulis.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ilgcn.tupilak.org/">www.ilgcn.tupilak.org</a> bill@tupilak.org arvo@takas.lt</span>webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667020764201250488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250198045995110885.post-44630115542414951712015-02-18T06:07:00.002+01:002015-02-18T06:07:53.076+01:00<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">
<b><u>Press Release</u> </b><b style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><u>Stockholm, February 12, 2015</u></b><b style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"> <i> </i></b></div>
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<b><i> Stockholm --</i> The<span style="font-size: medium;"> ILGCN World Rainbow Cultural Conference</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> 2015 </span>will take place in </b><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> Stockholm, Sweden May 4-6 (</b><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> stage 1) and </b><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> Palanga, Lithuania: July 17-19<i> </i></b><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> (stage 2).</b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> Delegates will be discussing LGBT </b><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;">film making, </b><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;">journalism, art, music and literature. Other seminars will cover rainbow culture for trans persons, the HIV positives and differently ableled. Other seminars will cover national LGBT situations in different countries and NGO human rights organizations' support for rainbow rights and culture. </b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> Delegates will be coming from Norway, Belarus, Canada, Thailand, Peru, Cuba, Egypt, the Czeck Republic, </b><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;">Serbia, </b><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;">Sweden, Finland</b><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> </b><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;">and elsewhere.</b></div>
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<b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> There are no registration or entrance fees. Unfortunately, the conference has no travel grants but will try to find private accomodation for foreign visitors to avoid hotel costs. </b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"><b> The conference is being supported by the ILGCN </b><i>(international rainbow cultural network)</i><b> Information Secretriat-Stockolm, Tupilak </b><i>(Nordic rainbow cultural workers),</i><b> Nordic Rainbow Humanists and International Rainbow Seniors-Sweden.</b></span></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> </b><span style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> This is the first</span><b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> </b><span style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;">such event in <b>Stockholm </b>since 1998.<b> </b>Other<b> ILGCN world conference </b>have taken place in<b> Warsaw/Auschwitz, London, Minneapolis </b>and<b> Rio de Janeiro.</b></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;"> More information: <a href="mailto:bill@tupilak.org" target="_blank">bill@tupilak.org</a> <a href="http://www.ilgcn.tupilak.org/" target="_blank">www.ilgcn.tupilak.org</a> <a href="http://www.tupilak.org/" target="_blank">www.tupilak.org</a> Tupilak Facebook</b></div>
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<b>ILGCN SECRETARIATS, CULTURAL AMBASSADORS, CO-ORDINATORS and FRIENDS:</b></div>
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Join us -- or send solidarity greetings -- to another ILGCN participation in Rio de Janeiro's annual <b>Simpatia é Quase Amor</b> <i>(sympathy is almost love) </i> parades and very rainbow-filled street happenings in this Brazlian city <span style="font-size: 13.3333339691162px;">at <b>Ipanema beach</b>.</span></div>
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<u>Date:</u> <b><u>Saturday, February 7, 2015</u></b> -- just before Rio's giant annual carnival!</div>
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<u>Contact: </u> ILGCN cultural ambassador for Brazil,<b> Anders Ödvall <span style="color: #777777; font-family: 'normal arial', sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">eljest123</span><span style="color: #777777; font-family: 'normal arial', sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">@<a href="http://hotmail.com/" target="_blank">hotmail.com</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stockholm/Beijing/Manila -- ILGCN and Tupilak work have been highlighted in the capitals of China and the Philippines in December, 2014.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">China</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A multi-media presentation in Beijing at a large and well-known book store at an event arranged by the pioneering LGBT Center Beijing focused on LGBT culture, history and Nordic and iinternational co-operation. A visit the following day to the center itself included discussions on future co-operation between China and Sweden and selections of a ILGCN culltural ambassador and co-ordinator from China.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Award Diplomas in the Philippines</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite the threat of a severe typhoon battering central Philippines, the 20th Pride Parade in Metro Manila took place in this part of the giant Philippine capital. On stage after the march, the ILGCN "Rainbow Warrior" award honored all Metro Pride organizers over the past two decaded and was accepted by two gay veterans who attended the first Metro Manila pride.<br /><br />The motivation for the award included a salute to Metro Manila Pride "for -- in this its 20th anniversary year -- continuiing to parade on city streets to make LGBT people visible and to confirm that on the rainbow barriers are men and women, young and old, native and foreign born. differently disabled, HIV positive and negative, queer, trans, bi-sexual colleagues and their supporters."<br /><br />Another ILGCN Rainbow Warrior award diploma went to an event in another part of the Philippine capital -- the Quezon International Pink Film Festival, the biggest LGBT film festival in Asia. At a festival event sponsored by the Quezon mayor's office which supported the film festival, the award was accepted by Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte, festival organizer and film maker, Nick Deocampo, and Soxie Topacio, chairman of the Quezon City Pride Council.<br /><br />The motivation for the award read: "... for emphasizing that films are one of the most powerful cultural weapons to combat intolerance, ignorance, provinciality and homophobia -- a crucial ally in the political struggle for rainbow and all other human rights ... and for teaching new LGBT generations about the painful sacrifice and pleasures of the past while illustrating how the drama and humor of yesterday help create bridges to today and tomorrow."<br /><br />Swedish films screened at the Pink Festival included Ester Martin Bergsmark's "She Male Snails" (Pojktanten) -- thanks fo assistance from the Swedish Film Institute -- a trailer for Bitte Andersson's "Dyke Hard." and three ILGCN/Tupilak short films "LGBT Monuments," "Swedish-Belarus Delegations to Kiev," "Survival" by Willi Reichhold.<br /><br />---------------------------------------------------------</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other ILGCN Rainbow Warrior award diplomas this year saluted the World Pride-Toronto 2014 and Öst Gruppen -- the Swedish organization working for human rights and lgbt rights in Eastern Europe.<br /><br />More information: <a href="mailto:bill@tupilak.org">bill@tupilak.org</a></span></div>
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<b>PRESS RELEASE OCTOBER 13, 2014</b></div>
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<b><i>Vilnius</i></b> -- A historic international meeting of Belarus, Lithuanian, Swedish and Canadian LGBT and pro-LGBT journalists, editors, translators and human rights defenders met in the Lithuanian capital on October 11, 2014 to discuss the present situation in Belarus -- and ways to exchange <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">international experience and increase the collaboration of LGBT activists/human rights groups/mass media in other countries to help ensure LGBT people's equal rights with other social groups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"We are very eager to increase contacts with other countries including our neighbor, Belarus," said <b>Marius Gorochovskis</b>, communications officer of the <b>Lithuanian Gay League</b>, at the conference which took place at the <b>Human Rights House</b> in the heart of the Lithuanian capital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"It was great meeting colleagues from Belarus and there is a strong motivation for working together internationally," said <b>Robert Milkovic</b>, writer/editor and LGBTQ activist in Toronto Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">"The LGBT Belarus journalist is a powerful tool for educating fellow colleagues and the society on the whole -- since homophobia is a devastating and crippling illness even in Sweden today despite the almost perfect anti-discrimination legislation there," said <b>Bill Schiller</b> of <b>Tupilak</b>, the Nordic organization of rainbow cultural workers and the <b>ILGCN</b>, the international rainbow cultural network.</span></div>
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In addition, a separate discussion was dedicated to the problem of non-ethical comments under LGBT-related publications on mass media Web-sites in Belarus -- with contributions of the <b>Belarusian LGBT Journalists' Group </b>as facilitator, <b>'GayBelarus'</b>, <b>'GayAlliance'</b>, <b>MakeOut</b>, <b>34Mag</b>, the <b>Belarusian Helsinki Committee</b> and <b>Gender Route</b>, a feminist NGO. </div>
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In post-conference discussions including Lithuanian LGBT cultural workers, plans were made to hold a Belarus, Lithuanian, Swedish and Canadian rainbow conference and cultural gathering in southern Lithuania in 2015.<br />
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<b>Stockholm/Minsk</b> — Both Belarus and Swedish LGBT organizations have launched a fund-raising campaign to help Mikhail Pischevsky, a Belarus gay architect/designer nearly beaten to death in a savage, homophobic attack in the Belarus capital last May—leaving him since then hospitalized,in a coma and permanently injured.<br />
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"It's been for the first time that a criminal case for committing a hate crime in relation to a homosexual person has received publicity in Belarus", says Oleg Rozkkov of Belarus's Gaypress. The attacker is appealing his 2-year jail sentence, insisting he was "cleaning up society" and should not be punished for beating up homosexuals. <br />
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"The family desperately needs financial help to care for Mikhail and to emplyee a nurse for essential care", say Belarus LGBT activists.<br />
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"We have long been working with Belarus LGBT groups and find it only natural to try to extend our assistance to them, to Mikhail and his family caring for him", says Bill Schiller of Tupilak (Nordic cultural workers) and ILGCN (International rainbow cultural network) Information Secretariat-Stockholm—both long working with Belarus LGBT colleagues.<br />
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More information: <a href="http://gaypress.eu/2014/10/26/young-guy-beaten-nearly-to-death-after-a-gay-party-in-minsk/">http://gaypress.eu/2014/10/26/young-guy-beaten-nearly-to-death-after-a-gay-party-in-minsk/</a><br />
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For contributions: <br />
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57 Beneficiary Bank<br />
BELARUSBANK<br />
18, DZERZHINSKI AVE<br />
MINSK 220089, BELARUS<br />
SWIFT: AKBBBY2X<br />
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Bartashevich Valiantsina<br />
Account number 000284<br />
For treatment Michael Pischevskiy<br />
Acc. at branch<br />
527/527Кастрычнік 26, 2014<br />
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56 Correspondent Bank<br />
SWIFT: COBADEFF<br />
COMMERZBANK AG, FRANKFURT AM MAIN<br />
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Tupilak<br />
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<b><i> Vilnius</i></b> -- A historic international meeting of Belarus, Lithuanian, Swedish and Canadian LGBT and pro-LGBT journalists, editors, translators and human rights defenders met in the Lithuanian capital on October 11, 2014 to discuss the present situation in Belarus -- and ways to exchange <span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">international experience and increase the collaboration of LGBT activists/human rights groups/mass media in other countries to help ensure LGBT people's equal rights with other social groups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> "We are very eager to increase contacts with other countries including our neighbor, Belarus," said <b>Marius Gorochovskis</b>, communications officer of the <b>Lithuanian Gay League</b>, at the conference which took place at the <b>Human Rights House</b> in the heart of the Lithuanian capital.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> "The LGBT Belarus journalist is a powerful tool for educating fellow colleagues and the society on the whole -- since homophobia is a devastating and crippling illness even in Sweden today despite the almost perfect anti-discrimination legislation there," said <b>Bill Schiller</b> of <b>Tupilak</b>, the Nordic organization of rainbow cultural workers and the <b>ILGCN</b>, the international rainbow cultural network.</span></div>
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In addition, a separate discussion was dedicated to the problem of non-ethical comments under LGBT-related publications on mass media Web-sites in Belarus -- with contributions of the <b>Belarusian LGBT Journalists' Group </b>as facilitator, <b>'GayBelarus'</b>, <b>'GayAlliance'</b>, <b>MakeOut</b>, <b>34Mag</b>, the <b>Belarusian Helsinki Committee</b> and <b>Gender Route</b>, a feminist NGO. </div>
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More information: <b><i><a href="http://www.tupilak.org/" target="_blank">www.tupilak.org</a> <a href="http://www.ilgcn.tupilak.org/" target="_blank">www.ilgcn.tupilak.org</a> <a href="mailto:bill@tupilak.org" target="_blank">bill@tupilak.org</a> </i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TUPILAK (Queer Cultural Workers in the Nordic Region, </span><a href="http://www.tupilak.org/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.tupilak.org</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) in cooperation with the Belarusian LGBT journalists (</span><a href="http://www.gaypress.eu/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.gaypress.eu</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) announces a professional contest for the Belarusian journalists on the best anti-discrimination reporting. The best authors of articles and/or photo-audio-video reports, fostering equality of different social groups in the Belarusian society will be announced by TUPILAK during a round table discussion on ‘Equal Rights for LGBT. The Role of Mass Media and Civil Society’ in Vilnius on October 11, 2014. The winners will receive special awards from TUPILAK.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is suggested that the contest materials have to appear in the media within the period since January 1, 2014 till August 31, 2014. The contest materials have to be submitted to the e-mail address (gayjour@gmail.com) for consideration no later than on September 30, 2014.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Культурніцкая ЛГБТ арганізацыя паўночных краінаў ТУПІЛАК у супрацоўніцтве з беларускімі журналістамі, якія ўваходзяць або падтрымліваюць ЛГБТ супольнасці (</span><a href="http://www.gaypress.eu/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.gaypress.eu</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) абвяшчае прафесійны конкурс на найлепшы журналісцкі матэрыял на антыдыскрымінацыйную праблематыку.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Аўтары найлепшых друкаваных і Інтэрнэт-артыкулаў і/ці фота-аўдыё-відэа рэпартажаў, якія прасоўваюць ідэю роўнасці розных сацыяльных групаў у беларускім грамадстве, будуць абвешчаныя падчас круглага стала на тэму “Роўныя правы для ЛГБТ. Роля СМІ і грамадзянскай супольнасці”, які адбудзецца ў Вільні 11 кастрычніка 2014 года. Пераможцы конкурсу атрымаюць адмысловыя ўзнагароды ад ТУПІЛАКУ.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Чакаецца, што конкурсныя матэрыялы павінны з’явіцца ў прэсе ў перыяд з 1 студзеня па 31 жніўня 2014 года. Матэрыялы конкурсу маюць быць скіраваныя на разгляд журы на электронны адрас <a href="mailto:gayjour@gmail.com">gayjour@gmail.com</a> не пазней за 30 верасня 2014 года.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>webmasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12667020764201250488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1250198045995110885.post-81421006130866896482014-08-29T06:05:00.001+02:002014-08-29T06:05:48.919+02:00<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u><b>Stockholm Meetings at Culture Center, Gay Bar:</b></u></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stockholm -- "This was our way of saluting this year's IDAHO -- international day against homophobia on May 17 -- and its 2014 theme "Freedom of Expression," says Bill Schiller of Tupilak (Nordic rainbow cultural workers) and ILGCN (international rainbow cultural network) Information Secretariat-Stockholm of the event taking place on May 14 at the Folklore Centrum and the award-winning gay bar Side Track -- both on this city's southern island.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We not only meet for social get-togethers but also to inform local politicians, administrators of homes for the elderly and medical workers -- people sometimes totally unaware of the existence and needs of LGBT elderly," said Agneta Wirén of the Gothenberg Senior Group from this west coast city.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Another special guest at this event, Frank Lee of Taiwan-- a participant of the first-ever Stockholm "Gay Photographers Exhibit"-- displayed his work and mentioned that he will be creating giant-sized photos of LGBT people at Stockholm's international airport Arlanda during the coming Stockholm Pride this July. "I would also be pleased to have my work included in the Tupilak/ILGCN international art and photo exhibit."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Examples of the collection's Belarus art and photography were displayed, along with the presentation of the plan for "Swedish-Belarus Queer Cultural Days" 2014 for Belarus and Swedish cities -- an idea originated by Maksim Haikou of Minsk.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Also in the spirit of IDAHO'S "Freedom of Expression," plans were presented for a boat trip from Stockholm to St. Petersburg waiving the rainbow flag in ports of call including Tallin, Helsinki and St. Petersburg -- to challenge the Russian ban an "homo propaganda." Also, a salute to the rotating Baltic Pride -- this year taking place in Tallinn and starting on June 2.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />"Combating freedom of expression of LGBT people all over the world by all the major religions," said Carl Johan Kleberg of the Nordic Rainbow Humanists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Poetry with a Chinese theme was presented by Swedish Tupilak member Tomas Åberg and the Folk Lore Centrum owner Izzy Young read poems of his friend, the late American revolutionary gay poet, Allan Ginsburg.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Discussions also ended with a salute to the Austrian winner of the Eurovision song contest, Conchita Wurst for being an enormous contribution to tolerance and diversity in a Europe these days threatened by facist and homophobic parties in many nations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />As part of the "freedom of expression" theme, we are also announcing the formation of a new group calledInternational Rainbow Seniors - Sweden promoting LGBT culture and international ties -- well aware that many nations even with a strong Pride movement still ignore the voices of the elderly LGBT people," says Schiller.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">TUPILAK FILM AWARD TO CINEMATEKET'S "QUEER DAYS," </span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stockholm - Tupilak's Polar Bear prize, the annual award for outstanding support of LGBT films has gone jointly to the Swedish Film Institute's film club Cinemateket's annual "Queer Days" and to the Stockholm International Queer Film Festival.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We are very proud to screen LGBT films mostly from earlier years in the spring to balance the festival's screening of mostly new films in the autum," said Lova Hagerfors, head of Cinemateket.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We are very proud of this award and it means a lot to us," said the Swedish Film Institute's press chief Jan Göransson, at the prize ceremony helping inagurate this year's Queer Days." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The motivation was read aloud by Tupilak's Peter Fröberg: --- for confirming that films are among the strongest weapons to combat homophobia, intolerance, ignorance and hatred, ... for making film programs focusing on all those on the rainbow human rights barricades -- women and men, young and old, trans and bi, straight and queer, differently abled, HIV/AIDS positive and negative, native and foreign born, racial and ethnic diversity, yesterday's battles and tomorrow's., ... and for confirming that when the rainbow is stretched over psychological and geographic barriers, the colors grow not weaker but more brilliant, more visible and more inspiring."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born at the Teddy Bear award ceremonies at the Berlinale film festival, the Polar Bear salutes not individual films but film makers and those helping LGBT films reach wider audiences.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The first Polar Bear went to the late German film distributor, Manfred Salzgeber, that fighting against enormous reluctance to screen films with an HIV/AIDS themes. Other awards have gone to pioneering film makers, distributors, film festivals, film critics in Sweden, the United States, Iceland, Romania and elsewhere, " said Bill Schiller of Tupilak..</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stockholm -- Tupilak's first award diploma "Loke on the Rainbow" ...? has been given to film maker Ester Martin Bergsmark, who has made a prize- winning short film "Pojktanten" (She Male Snails) about a young person's search for dignity and sexual identity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ester's first and brand new feature film "Någon Ting Måste Gå Sönder" -- "Something has to Break" has also received wide acclaim both in Sweden and outside the country, and has earned the film maker the label of being one of Sweden's finest young and coming film makers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Note: Tupilak's Golden Tupilak was given to the late, internationally-famous German transvestite Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who moved her famous turn-of the-last-century museum to Sweden after repeated neo-Nazi attacks on the museum on the outskirts of Berlin.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<u style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">ILGCN/Tupilak joint co-opration with Eastern European colleagues:</span></b></u><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Swedish Belarus Ukrainian LGBT Solidarity Project May 2013-2014</span></b><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stockholm/Minsk/Gomel/Kiev -- The aim was to increase contact and exchange between LGBT cultural workers and activists in these three countries by attending Prides and other events. Also to meet members of other LGBT organizations and not only the "hosts" in each country, visit other human rights organizations as allies to the LGBT rights struggle. Also to involve where possible members of LGBT organizations in Latvia and Lithuania lying geographically between Sweden and Belarus as important partners in ongoing and future co-operation and solidarity. The project was made possible through a grant by the Swedish Institute.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also to ensure that delegates or individual travellers reflected both men and women, new- comers and long-time veterans and people coming not only from the capital cities but also from organizations in provincial areas.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Planning was made difficult by the uncertainty of dates and events, the repeated postponement of Minsk Pride right up to December 2013, forcing a Swedish women's delegation to Minsk an Gomel to wait until February and the planned final evaluation of representatives of all three nations taking place in February. Visa difficulties also caused troubles and some economic losses -- with one UKrainian woman loosing her flight and one Swedish woman already in Vilnius refused entry to Belarus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coordination of finances had to be delegated fully to Tupilak since GayBelarus has been denied registration by the government twice and it doesn’t have an official bank account. It was also decided by the coordinators to change a project partner from Insight to Gay Alliance of Ukraine, because Insight was busy with other projects and wasn’t able to participate in our project -- although members of Insight participated in the Kiev stage of the project.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The program included seven parts spread throughout the period:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May 23-27, 2013: Swedish and Belarus delegates attending Kiev Pride --attending film screenings and performances, receptions, the heavily-guarded and threatened Pride parade and number exchanges and discussions. Delegates included Tomas Näslund, Zafire Vrba, Monica Collins, Sofia Hultin, Pernilla . Bill Schiller, Slava Bortnik, Dzyatalu Vitali, Sulim Anastasya, Labusava Alena, Silchanka Alesia, Vashchanka Volha, Nestsiarovich Maryna.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kiev queer culture events sponsored by Tupilak brought together around 50 people from Sweden, Ukraine and Belarus.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May 31-June 5, 2013: Visit by Belarus Slava Borntik to West Pride,Gothenburg , Stockholm and Visby to make presentations about the LGBT movement in Belarus, the importance of Swedish Belarus Ukrainian co-operation. Bill Schiller joined in seminars and presentations in West Pride. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the Gothenburg Pride weekend (West Pride), Slava Bortnik participated in numerous activities including social events, met dozens of important people and participated in the pride march as well as meeting Tupilak members from Gothenburg and Malmö. At the workshops, Bortnik described the situation for LGBT activists and cultural workers for the audiences -- made up mostly of young people.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Travelling to Visby, Bortnik met leaders of RFSL Gotland in Visby, Petra Guteskär Nidsjö and Elisabet Guteskär Nidsjö, who briefed him on the history of Gotland Pride and LGBTI activism on island. Participants at a RFSL picnic were very interested in the recent developments for LGBTI people in Belarus. They expressed a deep interest in supporting Minsk Gay Pride 2013 scheduled for October. An article about the event can be found on the website of GayBelarus.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://gaybelarus.by/naviny/minsk-gay-pride/organizatory-gotland-praida-zayavili-o-" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://gaybelarus.by/naviny/minsk-gay-pride/organizatory-gotland-praida-zayavili-o-</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> podderzhke-minskogo-praida-2013.html </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Stockholm, Bortnik also met with Tupilak members again planning future stages of the project as well as with Maria Myhrman at the SIDA offices, describing Tupilak-Belarus cooperation over the last 14 years as well as on the situation of LGBTI persons and progress of LGBTI activism in Belarus. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">November 15-16, 2013: Swedish Tupilak members from Malmö, Monica Collins, Aytan Mammadii were brought to Stockholm for meetings and translation with a Swedish-Belarus-Russian LGBT culture and rights conference at the Swedish Parliament and at a Stockholm book shop and at private meetings of LGBT activists and culture workers. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At a Stockholm meeting on November 22, Swedes met representatives of the Gay Alliance of Ukraine </span><a href="https://3c.gmx.net/mail/client/dereferrer?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fnaumvolodymyr" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volodymyr Naumenko</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="https://3c.gmx.net/mail/client/dereferrer?redirectUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ftaras.karasiichuk" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taras Karasiichuk</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to discuss recent developments in Ukraine and to plan Minsk stage of the project.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">December 7-11, 2013: With one would-be Swedish delegate denied a visa at the Belarus Embassy in Vilnius, Bill Schiller was the only Swedish delegate participating in Minsk Pride, joining in the only permitted event at a city cultural house and private gatherings since the authorities and owners at eight other venues closed their doors at the very last minute because of threats or warning from the authorities. Even at private gatherings, local police showed up to interrogate participants and demand passports and identification. Unfortunately, no Ukrainians arrived for the event but a small number of other nationaities attended.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Minsk queer culture events sponsored by Tupilak brought together around 40 people from Belarus, Sweden, Poland, Romania, Spain and other nations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">February 13-19, 2014: Swedish and Belarusian activists met Latvian colleagues of Mozaika in Riga for a LGBT cultural and human rights presentations. A second conference took place on board the ship leaving to Stockholm where a 2-day of meetings took place with representatives of local Swedish activists and cultural workers, a delegate from Visby Pride, leaders of the Swedish Institutere and others. Belarus delegates continued after words to meet representatives from the Civil Rights Defenders, the Swedish Institute and Unstraight Museum. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Belarus delegates included Katerina Borsuk and Maksim Haikou of Gay Belarus/Minsk Pride, Aleh Razhkou and Zoya Navakshonava of the Belarus LGBT Journalist organization. Unfortunately, a Ukrainian delegate was unable to get a visa in time to join the event.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">February 18-22, 2014: Swedish delegates Monica Collins and Sofia Hultin visited Minsk and Gomel meeting with Belarus cultural workers and activists in both cities, in a program co-ordinated by Slava Bortnik. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Gomel, Swedes met with members of GayBelarus, NGO “Vstrecha”, NGO “Gomel Democratic Forum”and lesbian group “Tema Vidos”. Discussion on women’s rights and Swedish feminism took place at the office of NGO “Gomel Democratic Forum”. During the meeting with NGO “Vstrecha” Swedes and Belarusians discussed HIV/AIDS prevention strategies in both countries. Activists from the group “Tema Vidos” organized a guided tour to lesbian places in Gomel. Around 40 activists participated in the events.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Minsk, Swedes met with activists from Gay Press project and Make Out project (</span><a href="https://3c.gmx.net/mail/client/dereferrer?redirectUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fmakeout.by%2F" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://makeout.by/</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">) as well as lesbian poet Nasta Mantsevich to discuss creative queer culture events planned for the nearest future. Around 30 activists participated in the meetings.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">February 23-25,2014: for a evaluation meeting in Vilnius. This included Slava Bortnik of Gay Belarus,Taras Karasiichuk of Gay Alliance, Ukraine and Bill Schiller of Tupilak. Both Bortnik and Karasiichuk stressed the growing need for international LGBT co-operation as the situation for LGBT rights in their countries has worsened. They add that it is more important to work with new smaller groups with limited opportunities in terms of travel and financial support. 2 years ago cooperation project with Tupilak significantly contributed to capacity building of the Gay Alliance of Ukraine and to professional development of their members -- making it now a larger and more stable organization. The use of LGBT culture for future projects was also emphasized. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">Leslie-Lohman Museum Exhibits Images</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Photos by Gonzalo Orquin.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New York -- The Leslie-Lohman Museum’s Wooster St. Window Gallery has presented "Si, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">quiero, (I do)" a site-specific installation of work by Rome-based artist Gonzalo Orquin. This installation </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">re-creates the artist's images that were scheduled to be exhibited at a private gallery in Rome in late </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2013. However, the exhibition never occurred because authorities at the Vatican objected to the original </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">photographs and threatened legal action against the gallery. The Vatican claimed the images showed </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“expressions of affection that do not belong in a place of worship.” </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orquin’s photographs feature same-sex couples kissing in beautiful baroque Italian churches. According </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to the artist, who identifies as Catholic, “If you look closely at my pictures, no one can find blasphemy </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sacrilege. A kiss is a gesture of love, of tenderness between human beings.” As quoted in a recent </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">interview in the Advocate, Orquin stated that the LGBTQ community “may be ashamed to publicly </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">demand their rights. Politicians are busy with other things and then there is the church. Every day there </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is a bishop or cardinal who goes on TV to say that homosexuals are sick and the natural family needs to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be protected. I feel deep anger and shame every time a member of the church insults me in this way. I </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pray that God will forgive them and I have faith that Pope Francis will help us, why not?"</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, the Vatican did not want the images displayed. As reported in the Huffington Post, Vicariate </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">spokesman Claudio Tanturri said the photos violate the Italian constitution. “Italian constitutional law </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">safeguards an individual’s religious feelings and the function of places of worship. Therefore photos that </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are not suitable and do not conform to the spirituality of the place offend and infringe upon the </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">advancement of man in the particular place for the expression of faith." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leslie-Lehman Museum Director Hunter O’Hanian says, “This was a very simple decision for us. We </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">heard that the work, these lovely images of people kissing in beautiful settings, was being denied access </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and we wanted to do something about it. In part, it is why this Museum exists. We offer opportunities </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to show work that others won’t, particularly work that speaks to the gay and lesbian community. These </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">photographs present same-sex couples displaying the same rights that should be fundamental and basic </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to all.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Born in Seville, Spain in 1982, Gonzalo Orquin studied at Fine Arts University of Seville (2000-2004) and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fine Arts Academy Pietro Vanucci at the University of Perugia, Italy (2005). Since 2004 he has lived and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">worked in Italy. As a painter, his work have been described as domestic, intimate, and romantic. Set in </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">common place interiors of muted tones, his subjects include solitary men and women, as well as gay and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">straight couples often displaying a contemplative depth of emotion. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Information provided by Birthe Havmoller of "Feminine Moments" - Denmark</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lithuanian "Experts" Find Tolerance Promoting</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fairy Tales Harmful to Minors</span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Lithuanian Office of the Inspector of Journalist Ethics </span><a href="http://manoteises.lt/straipsnis/sprendimas-neplatinti-pasaku-primena-sovietine-cenzura/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">concluded</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that two fairy tales that promote tolerance for same-sex couples are harmful to minors and should be marked by the index “N-14”. According to experts, stories written by the Lithuanian author Neringa Dangvydė violate the </span><a href="http://www3.lrs.lt/pls/inter3/dokpaieska.showdoc_e?p_id=410974" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Law</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information by “encouraging the concept of entry into a marriage and creation of a family other than stipulated in the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania and the Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania”. In addition, the experts consider them to be “harmful, invasive, direct and manipulative”.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The book “Gintarinė širdis” (“Amber heart”) that contains magical stories for children about people with disabilities, same-sex couples, Roma, people with a different skin colour and other socially vulnerable groups is no longer available for purchase and the information about it was removed from a database of the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences (LEU), which published the book nearly half a year ago.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In one of the stories a brother falls in love with a black male dressmaker, in another one a princess falls in love with the shoemaker's daughter. The LEU considers this to be “harmful, primitive and purposeful propaganda of homosexuality'. The book’s “negative content” was reported to the LEU and the Ministry of Culture by the “Lithuanian parents’ forum” and a group of conservative MPs.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the </span><a href="http://www.15min.lt/en/article/culture-society/experts-find-t-shirt-slogan-on-diverse-families-in-lgbt-pride-video-harmful-to-minors-528-369626" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">second time</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> when experts quote the norm of the Law on the Protection of Minors Against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information as the reason for censoring the LGBT* related public information. In September 2013 the same experts found that one of the two promotional </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rDP_t2QcmI" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">videos</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> of the Baltic Pride 2013 March for Equality that took place in Vilnius last July were harmful to minors and should have been broadcasted only during the night hours.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Berlin --: Queeramnesty Germany with financial support from the Foundation Umverteilen has organised in the Gay Museum at the beginning in April an exhibition of photographs by the internationally recognised South African lesbian film-maker, photographer and activist, Zanele Muholi. The exhibition was to end June 9th but was extended to the end of the month because of popular demand..</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To mark the opening a discussion around the theme of Violence against S. African Lesbians was held. Present were 100 people from the LGBTI communty, two LGBT representatives from S. Africa and the new general secretary of Amnesty Germany, Selmin Caleskan.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Gay Museum is now in super new premises at Lützowstrasse 73, 10785 and is in itself well worth a visit.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Information provided by Colin de la Motte-Sherman, ILGCN co-ordinator - Berlin</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: large;">ILGCN Awards:</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clio's Silver Cup -- history</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orfeo Imago -- Art & Photography</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rainbow Warrior -- international & cultural events</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Grizzly Bear (work in ferocious homophobic situations)</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sappho in Paradise (publishing, libraries)</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Arco Nordica (Nordic co-operation)</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Orfeo Iris (research in Nazi, neo nazi persecution)</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rainbow Iceberg (outstanding international work)</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stockholm -- The ILGCN 2014 Rainbow Warrior was presented to World Pride-Toronto 2014 (July 1xxxxx) at an ILGCN (international rainbow cultural network) and Tupilak (Nordic rainbow cultural workers) at a seminar on LGBT culture on the opening day July 30th of Stockholm Pride 2014.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We believe this award confirms our feeling that both LGBT culture and political activism for law reform belong together int he battle for human rights," says Bill Schiller of ILGCN/Tupilak.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In Tupilak, we feel that all culture -- art, photos, literature, drama, dance or whatever are essential for focusing on our identity and visibility," says Elinore Linén Strand of Tupilak.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We of World Pride-Toronto are proud to receive this international recognition of our work," says Mark Smith of the World Pride-Toronto board of directors who came to Stockholm to receive the award.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The Canadian Embassy is proud to be invited to this ceremony and believe that World Pride-Toronto was a great contributor to the struggle for human rights around the globe," says the Canadian chargé d´affiairs at the Stockholm embassy, Patric Hébert. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><br />The motivation for the Rainbow Warrior award going to the organizers and volunteers of World Pride-Toronto 2014 was in part:... for giving supreme emphasis to international rainbow solidarity not only with the 3-day world lgbt confererence but also for continuing the policy of bringing an International Grand Marshal each year from different parts of the world to inform on their struggles and to help lead the giant Pride Parade through the streets of Toronto.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... for giving the vital focus to LGBT culture -- not only in the seminars but also to the many happenings on the streets and in the venues -- confirming that LGBT culture is a powerful weapon against homophobia, silence and invisibility -- and is a vital part of the legislative and political battle for human rights - world wide.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... and for confirming that when the colors of the rainbow are stretched over geographic, psychological and cultural borders, they do not become weaker but instead more brilliant, more beautiful and more visible.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both Stockholm and Toronto were candidates for World Pride 2014.</span><br />
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