Liverpool -- ILGCN's "Wings 2018" award (for outstanding contributions with films to LGBT culture) ceremony to Stephen "Unchechen" Hornby,
Riga -- ILGCN/Bears International participation in Baltic Pride- Riga - March 3-June 10.
Stockholm -- ILGCN/Tupilak event for March 21 UN Day against Rasicsm & Fascism/United's European Week against Rascism & Fascism -- (press release coming).
Södertälje -- ILGCN participating in Tupilak Art Exhibit - Södertälje City Hall - April 9-29 (vernissage April 9)
Tallinn -- ILGCN/Bears International participating in Bearty-Tallinn internationa
Budapest -- ILGCN Rainbow Culture Conference - May 8,9 (press release coming) (With Nordic & European Rainbow Humanists, anti-fascist movement)
Riga -- ILGCN participating in Belarus Journalists for Tolerance conference - June 9 (press release coming)
Stockholm -- ILGCN participating in EuroPride-Stockholm - July 27-August 5
World-wide -- ILGCN-declared "1st International Day of Rainbow Culture" - August 9 (birthday of Finnish-Swedish writer/painter Tove Jansson of "Moomin" fame) -- salutes planned in over 30 countries so far, from Canada to Finland to Uganda. (2nd press release coming).
Gothenburg -- ILGCN participating in EuroPride-Gothenburg - Augu
16 Nordic cities -- 3rd Nordic Rainbow History & Culture Month - October, 2018 (2nd press release coming)
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Proposals:
ILGCN's "Orfeo Musica 2018" to veteran British singer/song writer, Tom ("Sing if Yoúre Glad to be Gay!") Robinson, UK.
ILGCN's "Orfeo Iris 2018" (for research and information work on Nazi and neo Nazi persecution of LGBT people) to Professor Rainer U W Schulze, (editor of "The Holocaust in History and Memory") of University of Essex, U.K.
ILGCN's "Rainbow Warriors 2018" -- Simon Gärdenfors and Frej Larsson,Sweden (sued unsuccessfully by Russia for creating a musical gay club on Russian property on Finland's Åland Islands -- previously part of the Czar's empire)
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Other award proposals...? Other information for the next ILGCN web publication, "Erato"...?
Get back to me!
Hugs,
Bill Schiller of the ILGCN Information Secretariat-Stockholm
www.ilgcn.tupilak.org Facebok: "ILGCN," "Bill Schiller"
