Moscow Pride Parade Free of Violence

Our friends in Moscow held a peaceful Pride Parade yesterday, outsmarting both the homophobes and the “authorities.” GayRussia.ru 05/30/2010 15:12:34 Russian Gays Hold Successful Pride Parade Without Arrests, Beatings MOSCOW, Russia – Despite a vow by...

Blogging from Moscow Gay Pride

Moscow Pride officially banned for 5th year but plans are in the works. And the French station TF1 News has aired a seven minute interview with Nikolai Alekseev. Read more

Belarus Screening Recieves Bomb Threat

This weekend sees another Gay Pride in eastern Europe. Slavic Pride gets underway in Minsk, Belarus, on Friday. Already the planned parade on Saturday has been banned by the city authorities who used the flimsy excuse that the route was too near to metro (underground)...

Beyond Gay visits Eastern Europe and Sri Lanka

We are very excited that Beyond Gay will be launching the Slavic Gay Pride weekend in Minsk Belarus on May 14th.  I met up with Nikolai Alekseev in Athens when we were there for the screening and delivered him a copy of the film which is being translated for this...

Xtra readies Toronto for the Inside Out screening

Vancouver filmmaker Bob Christie’s new documentary, Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride, is a timely reminder of the various struggles facing Pride organizers around the world. This film is particularly germane now as debates over free expression, international human...

Another Pride Possibly Banned in Eastern Europe

“The banning of the march, or the failure to ensure the safety of its participants, would send a signal to all Lithuanians, and the rest of the world, that human rights are only selectively upheld there,” Amnesty International said.  Lithuania has recently...