1ST IDAHO ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE MOSCOW 2006
The Conference will Coincide with Moscow’s Planned 2006 Pride Activities that Mayor has Vowed to Ban.
09/09/2005
Russian Federation
Europe
 
The first International Day against homophobia was celebrated on 17th May 2005, 15 years exactly after the World Health organization decided to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. More than 40 countries joined the event and organized actions against homophobia. The Day was supported by the President of the European Parliament and has already been recognized as an official day by the Belgium parliament.

On 4th September 2005, founder of the IDAHO Louis-Georges Tin and Head of the project GayRussia.Ru Nikolai Alekseev signed an official agreement to have the first ever International conference of IDAHO in Moscow. The conference will be part of Moscow gay festival celebrations planned for 25-28 May 2006.

With its 13 million people population, Moscow is the biggest city in Europe. Gay scene in Moscow is also thriving with several clubs, bars, saunas, organizations and websites. However, up to now, Moscow has not been related to any of the major LGBT events in the world, including pride celebrations. The first Gay festival in Moscow is organized to fill in this gap and to help fight against homophobia in the country. Gay festival and IDAHO conference in Moscow will celebrate the 13th anniversary since the law against same-sex relationships was abolished in Russia (27 May 1993). The conference will end on Saturday 27 May, and in the afternoon, the first ever LGBT parade in Moscow will take place.

Co-Presidents of IDAHO Moscow conference are Louis-Georges Tin, Dr. Robert Wintemute, one of the leading world experts in sexual orientation discrimination issues and Nikolai Alekseev, lawyer, expert on legal aspects of homosexuality. Apart from them the scientific committee for this IDAHO conference includes Evgeniya Debryanskaya, founder and leader of Russian lesbian movement, Igor Kon, one of the most prominent Russian specialists in LGBT physiological and anthropological issues and Andrey Kvakin, professor of history in Lomonosov Moscow State University.

This IDAHO conference in Moscow will host specialists in sexual orientation issues and public figures, both from Russia and from abroad, the vice Mayor of Paris, representatives of International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA), members of the European Parliament and representatives of the Council of Europe. The IDAHO Moscow conference will be open to all constituencies, and activists are quite welcome to support the conference and the Pride to make it a global success. However, they should register soon, especially as regards accommodation and visa issues.

Gay festival and IDAHO conference in Moscow in May 2006 will be the biggest LGBT event ever conducted on Russian soil. Do not miss your chance today to be part of history tomorrow!

Louis-Georges Tin, IDAHO

Nikolai Alekseev, GayRussia.Ru


If you wish to participate or need more information, please write to contacts@gayrussia.ru

More details about Moscow gay festival will be announced during the special press conference in Moscow on 20 September 2005.

Project GayRussia.ru