STOCKHOLM CULTURAL EVENT ON EVE OF IDAHO DAY

Press Release Stockholm, May 18, 2007

Rainbow Salute to International Day Against Homophobia:

STOCKHOLM CULTURAL EVENT ON EVE OF IDAHO DAY

Stockholm * Discussions on "rainbow culture on the barricades, music and song, art and films were the focus of a gathering in the Swedish capital on May 16 * the eve of the International Day Against Homophobia marking the May 17th anniversary of the WHO's abolishment of the "sickness" lable for homosexuality.

The Stockholm event included song and musicians from such performing artists as Jenny Gabrielsson and Peter Fröberg, documentary films from Belarus, international same-sex dance competitions and Stockholm Gay Choir's 25-year history, gay CD music from Estonia and elsewhere, as well as discussions of "rainbows in chains and under siege" in Eastern Europe * and the coming ILGCN (International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network) culture conference in Vilnius May 24-25.

ILGCN/Tupilak Travelling Art Exhibit

"We were proud to launch our travelling art exhibit starting off with works from Sweden, Lithuania, Finland and Norway for fund-raising for colleagues on the Eastern European barricades, says Bill Schiller of the ILGCN and Tupilak (Nordic rainbow cultural workers).

The cultural gathering took place at the downtown offices of the NBV educational organization and was organized by ILGCN, Tupilak, Nordic Rainbow Council and the Nordic Rainbow Humanists .

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10th ILGCN World Rainbow Cultural Conference – VILNIUS

(stage 1) May 24-25, 2007 avo@takas.lt info@tupilak.se

PART OF RAINBOW DAYS

(Lithuanian Gay League: A. Jaksto 22-15)

THURSDAY, May 24

Opening (greetings from other 2007 stages:

“Iranians in Exile” – Toronto, June 20,
“Algerians in Exile” -- Paris/Marseille, October)
– Bill Schiller, ILGCN


Reports from ILGCN Secretariats

Belarus, Swedish delegates at ILGCN
conference in Minsk, coming to Vilnius

“Rainbow Culture in Belarus” – Anna Gavrilova, Elena Mosalova -

Belarus LGBT Amnesty

“Rainbow Culture in Lithuania” – Vladimir Simonko, Eduardas Platovas -

Lithuanian Gay League

“Rainbow Film Festivals in Latvia – sharing the experience with Lithuania”

– Andrejs Visockis, Mozaika-Riga

“World Humanism & Rainbow Rights” – Nordic Rainbow Humanists

1st Nordic Rainbow Humanists (2nd session: Gothenberg, September 29)

Songs by Anne Jaaskelainen, Finland

FRIDAY, May 25th

“Finland’s Tribade Festivals” – Anne Jaaskelainen, Helsinki

“Nordic Rainbow Culture” – Bill Schiller, ILGCN/Tupilak

7th Nordic Rainbow Council. (2nd session: Gothenberg, September 29)

“Over the Baltic Rainbow
-- solidarity on the yellow,
brick road to Gothenberg & beyond”

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“Rainbow Days” Reception (Friday, May 24 at LGL office).



“Dancing on the Rainbow Barricades” – a dvd of Malin

Backström, Sweden

“Bo Jangles and the Angel”
– a monologue by the Chicago Kid

BOTH DAYS -- May 24-25, 2007

Nordic CD music

Nordic Short & Documentary Films

Rainbow History Exhibition – ILGCN History Secretariat (Minneapolis)

Tupilak/ILGCN Travelling
Art & Photography Exhibit

Works of Andrius Privetas, Lithuania and others