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The IDAHO meeting is scheduled to
be held next May as part of the first-ever Moscow Pride.
Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, who is
openly gay, has made the City Hall available to organisers for the press
conference, which is on Monday October 24 at 10am.
IDAHO founder Louis-Georges Tin
will set out the programme for next year’s meeting while Evgenia
Debryanskaya and Nikolai Alekseev from Moscow will reveal plans for the
Pride festival.
With Paris gearing up for the ILGA-Europe
annual conference, to be held later in the week, a number of European LGBT
group are expected to attend.
“Being able to hold the press
conference in the Paris City Hall is of high symbolic value,” said
Alekseev. “With the ILGA-Europe meeting and an exhibition aimed at
promoting diversity both being held in Paris next week, considerable
emphasis will be on homophobia.
“With a number of Pride events
during the summer being hit by homophobic outrage, together with the tragic
murder in London, homophobia across Europe has to be addressed,” he added.
The former French Minister of
Education and Culture Jack Lang, who backs both IDAHO and Moscow Pride,
hopes to be at the press conference, as does French singer Desireless, who
has a large following in Russia.
For further information on the
press conference, email contacts(at)gayrussia.ru
LINKS
IDAHO website
GayRussia.ru website (English language)
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