ILGCN Calling -- July, 2020
A reminder: August 9 International Day of Rainbow Culture/Tove Jansson's birthday. Make a "skål" to the day and to Tove and maybe to Touko Laaksonen (Tom of Finland) is this the 100th anniversary year of his birth. Maybe read a line from Tove ("All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.")...? A photo of you on your own (or with friends) for ILGCN facebook and/or webpublication Erato..?
Proposal for Clios Silver Cup (for LGBT history) ´(named for Clio - ancient Green muse for historic peotry and the Warren Cup --ancient Roman silver cup decorated with male homosexual pairs.) Sam Hultin (Sweden) (she provides audioguide historical LGBT trips, guided tours and seminars and donates profits to refugees in Sweden.)
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Other, coming ILGCN awards:
"Arco Nordica" (for Nordic co-operation) Petter Walllenberg (Sweden - for starting "Rainbow Riots"
Uganda's first LGBT community center), Vincent Ferrigan & Side Track (Stockholm bar -- fundraising
for Uganda's Rainbow Riot center.) (Presentation: Stockholm.) August.
"Sappho in Paradise" -- ILGCN/Paradise Press - London (for authors, publishers, archives) for the Skeivt Arkiv (Queer Archive - Bergen, Norway). (Presentation in Oslo or Bergen.)
"Orpheo Iris" (for research in LGBT presence in the Holocaust, neo nazi activities) Dr. Anna Hájková (Czech/UK)
. "Queer History of the Holocaust." (Presentation: Stockholm) September 15-16
"Orfeo/Zelim Bakeav Musica" (named after murdered gay Chechnyan singer) -- 1st Estonian LGBT
Choir (presentation in Tallinn during the Rakvere Heartfest LGBT Film Festival) October
Latest additions to the ILGCN/Tupilak International Rainbow Art & Photography Exhibition:
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| Claude Cahun (France -- artist, anti Nazi activist) |
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| Krisheel Othman (Fiji) |
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| Önder Özgenc (Konya, Turkey) |
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| appho and Erinna (by Simeon Solomon, UK) |
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| Sarabindu (Bangladesh) |
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| Troy Jamison (Brisbane Australia) |
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| Troy Jobson Bolt (Kenya) |
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| Leon Espinosa (Mexico/Norway) |
Future events:
ILGCN co-operation with HOSI-Wien - solidarity salute to rainbow colleagues in Poland and Hungary.
Vienna September or October. (ILGCN colleagues welcome!)
ILGCN/Tupilak (Nordic rainbow culture workers) 5th Nordic Rainbow History & Culture
Month - October. Tupilak award: "Loke's Sister" (promotion of trans culture) to Nuka Carmen Bisgaard, (Greenland).
