ILGCN World Conferences 2007 to Start in Vilnius

ILGCN Information Secretariat - Stockholm
(International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network)
www.ilgcn.tupilak.se


PRESS RELEASE March 5, 2007

Applications for 2008 stages coming from North America, Eastern Europe:

ILGCN World Conferences 2007 to Start in Vilnius

Vilnius/Stockholm - The 2007 ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay
Cultural Network) world rainbow cultural conference stages in 2007 will
begin with Vilnius on May 24-25, continue to Toronto for the "Iran-in
Exile" stage in June and to Paris/Marseille in October for the
"Algeria in Exile"stage.

The Mauritius stage originally planned for 2007
will be postponed for a future date.

"We're happy to see applications already coming in for 2008 world
rainbow cultural conference from Eastern Europe and North America,"
says Bill Schiller, secretary general of the ILGCN Information
Secretariat in Stockholm. "This is in keeping with our desires to
see stages shared by both East and West -- and to share with different
cities on a large geographic scale knowing that many do not have the
ability to organize a mega event on their own."

ILGCN "titles" Without Payment

"This is also why we fully support the Polish initiative to share
Euro pride 2008 between Stockholm and Warsaw, and plan to give our full
support to the crucial Polish event," adds Schiller.

"Unlike some international prestige events such as Euro Pride ,
World Pride, and Gay Games which sell their titles for high prices
without offering any financial support whatsoever, we will continue to
hand out ILGCN world conference stage titles without any charge - and we
always make efforts to provide performers, films, art and photography,
and conference seminar hosts," concludes Schiller.

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conference stages at www.ilgcn.tupilak.se

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VILNIUS LAUNCHES 2007 WORLD CONFERENCE STAGES

ILGCN Information Secretariat - Stockholm
(International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network)
www.ilgcn.tupilak.se

PRESS RELEASE February 28, 2007



VILNIUS LAUNCHES 2007 WORLD CONFERENCE STAGES


Vilnius/Stockholm - The Lithuanian capital will be the first "stop" for this year's ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network) world rainbow cultural conference stages - followed by Mauritius (tderavel@intnet.mu )at the end of May (the first ILGCN confer-ence in Africa), the Toronto-based "Iran in Exile" (info@arshampasi.net) stage in June, and the Paris/Marseille-based "Algeria in Exile"(amineh.kouider@btinternet.com) stage in October.

"We invite all interested in international solidarity and rainbow culture to join us in Vilnius in May 18 - the day after our IDAHO celebrations - for this first ILGCN event in our country," says ILGCN Lithuanian co-ordinator, Arvydas Vogilis (avo@takas.lt ).

Plans are also to give prominent space to a "Belarus in Exile" event at the conference - following last year's arrests and the KGB torpedoing the planned ILGCN stage in Minsk last November.

Nordic Rainbow Council, Humanists

"We're also pleased that the Vilnius event will include this year's sessions of the Nordic Rainbow Council (promoting co-operation over Nordic borders and beyond), and the annual Nordic Rainbow Humanist gathering - especially discussing the ugly outburst of the Lithuanian church against homosexuality and the many members of parliament giving open support for this medieval, homophobic intolerance -- a threat to all our human rights and rainbow cultural identity," says Bill Schiller, international secretary of the Council and secretary general of the ILGCN Information Secretariat in Stockholm.

"We also plan to give a special Nordic tribute to our LGBT humanist colleagues in Nigeria who are courageously publically condemning the Nigerian parliament's draconian proposal to ban homosexual relations and even social contact between lesbians and gays," Schiller adds.

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Photo caption: Arvydas Vogilis in Moscow for the 1st Pride 2006



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