Minsk Pride
Thus, not been displayed a collection of clothes, were abolished appearances Minsk and international artists, not take place contest "Miss DIVA-2000" and the first championship of Belarus on a male strip show.
The next day, the authorities closed "Belarus Gay Pride" 2000 press centre, ordering an evacuation and cessation of operations, as well as the cancellation of all activities being held at the House of Culture, such as workshops and film screenings.
Only in the evening did the organizing committee receive final information about what the club "Reactor" where all night events were cancelled and electricity was cut off in the surrounding area.
After one of the seminars, it was decided to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame in Victory Square in memory of the gays and lesbians who were killed by the Nazis during the Second World War.
Despite persecution, a press conference was successfully held in front of the City Opera House, which was attended by independent media where Belarusian and Swedish activists condemned the actions of the authorities.
Was dealt a huge blow to civil liberties in the state, as the authorities have made it clear that from now on any attempt to gays and lesbians to publicly declare their rights will be fraught with brutal repression.
Before showing the latest film leader of the Belarusian League for Sexual Equality “Lambda” Edward Tarletski spoke a word of thanks to all who helped organize and conduct these screenings.
September 5 held a public action in memory of gay victims of the Nazis on the site of the former concentration camp "Trostenets" near Minsk.
Не said that in Belarus we have a special attitude to the problem of Nazism, because even by the estimates of Soviet historians, which are usually lowered, about 25% of Belarusians were murdered by fascists during the Second World War.
"Letters of appreciation were also presented to the representatives of the youth association "Different-Equal", the Belarusian Federation of Anarchists, and organizations, which officially supported and participated in the first "Love-Parade."
In addition, the number of foreign visitors from Germany and Sweden, who were to participate in the festival held in the workshops was denied a visa for unspecified reasons, but unofficially them told that this is due to the upcoming presidential election.
In 2002, a few days before "Belarus Gay Pride" 2002, the leader of the Belarusian League for Sexual Equality “Lambda” Edward Tarletsky was summoned to the police station in Minsk.
The participants the pride parade marched from Yakub Kolas to October Square, the procession ended at the park near the building of the Presidential Administration of the Republic of Belarus.
[10] Afternoon May 14, 2010 in the premises of the "Belarusian Helsinki Committee" was held a human rights seminar, after which the co-organizers of Pride Siarhei Androsenka and Nikolai Alekseev spoke at a press conference dedicated to the event.
As a result of special forces operations, several people, including a member of the organizing committee of the St. Petersburg Gay Pride - Yuri Gavrikov were arrested and taken to the police station.
[11] Later in the restaurant "Lido" on Yakub Kolas police officers in civilian detained Belarusian co-organizer of the "Slavic Gay Pride 2010" Siarhei Androsenka and three local LGBT activists.
They were the director of Minsk "Club 6_A" Alexander Sakovich and President of the Committee of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia IDAHO, Louis-Georges Tin.
Events "Minsk Gay Pride" 2011 received the support of the Belarusian human rights activists, some political leaders, institutions art and show business.
[15] Two weeks of events, "Minsk Gay Pride" 2011 really caught the attention of both society and the authorities to the problems of the LGBT community in Belarus: discrimination and homophobia.
October 21 on a press conference, chairman of the organizing committee of "Minsk Gay Pride" 2011 Siarhei Androsenka announced intention to hold a march in defiance of a ban of the city authorities.
In an atmosphere the triumph of tolerance and mutual support October 5, 2012 successfully held the ceremonial opening of the eighth LGBT Human Rights Forum "Minsk Gay Pride" 2012.
The opening ceremony was attended by at least 100 people, among them such distinguished guests as Counsellor and Deputy Head of Mission of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Warsaw - Adrian Palm, who spoke with words of support for the Pride Week and the entire LGBT community in Belarus and well-known Belarusian human rights activist, leader Center for Legal Transformation - Elena Tonkacheva.
International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference "Queer Sexuality: Policy and Practice"[18] has collected experts from Belarus, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Sweden, Poland, Latvia and other European countries.
[20] October 21, LGBT Human Rights Project "GayBelarus" began a campaign to collect signatures in support of public action "Minsk Pride 2013.
"[21] Organizers of petition, calls on the authorities to give permission for a public action "Minsk Gay Pride 2013"[22] in support of tolerance to the LGBT community in Belarus and to provide an opportunity the LGBT community to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of expression without discrimination.
