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Whoopi Goldberg Speaks Out to Hungary

Joint Statement Expressing Support for Budapest Pride Festival

The following joint press release is issued by the Embassies of Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Attention! Information for Marchers! Security at Gay Pride March

Welcome to our Gay Pride March! This year we have international guests with us, and different Hungarian and International NGO-s will march with us! For your security please read carefully the following text.

Sign up! The festival organizers are still expecting volunteers

The Budapest GLBT Film and Culture Festival is a one week long event with several programs. We need volunteers to help with both its preparations and its organizing. Unfortunately there aren’t yet enough volunteers for all the tasks! If you would like to help, we gladly look forward to it, regardless of your age, gender, nationality or sexual orientation. We need all the help we can get!

Hungarian artists against homophobia: "Fuck you (very very much)"

A group of Hungarian artists has had enough of the Hungarian homophobia and decided to state their opinion of homophobic people by lip-syncing to a pop song.

New video of last year’s atrocities: spread the news!

You can see a video summary on last year’s Gay Pride March at www.youtube.com/budapestpride . Our aim is to disseminate this short video to more and more places so that people in Hungary and abroad can see why this year we need great solidarity coming from everywhere. We can only fight against violence together peacefully if many of us express that attacking a minority in this way is unacceptable.

Help us spread the video and ask more and more people to send their messages to our other video (Rise up for diversity and human rights! -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u24ZPwPklz4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.budapestpride.hu%2F&feature=player_embedded

(You can see it here on our homepage also) 

 

 

The investigation of attacks commited against last year’s Gay Pride Dignity March has started again

As participants of the 2008 Gay Pride Dignity March, members of TASZ (civil society organization, Association for the Rights of Freedom) reported an offence of person unknown of incitement against community and of violating the rights and freedom of assembly of the participants in the Pride March. Earlier, the police had halted legal procedures for lack of a crime but now the Budapest Municipal Prosecutor’s Office has ordered them to continue the investigation.  
Source: TASZ, Társaság a Szabadságjogokért (Associaton for Rights of Freedom)

PRIDE FILM NIGHTS also in August


New venue: VIS MAJOR
AUGUST- WEDNESDAYS AT 6 PM
 
The Rainbow Mission Foundation organizing the Budapest Pride 2009 has been cooperating with OSA Archivum on a film series that examines the lives of LGBT members in the world today. The weekly screenings in August precede the LGBT Pride starting the week of August 30th- September 5th in Budapest, and are meant to originate dialogue and promote tolerance. Screenings start at 6 pm on Wednesdays throughout August at Cafe Vis Major. Films are in original language with English subtitles, and will be followed by discussions (in Hungarian and in English). The event is FREE
 
WHERE:
CAFE VIS MAJOR, Szent István krt. 2 (entrance from Pozsonyi St.)
August 5
The Other Side of Istanbul
Germany, 2008, 82 min, documentary film
Homosexuals in Turkey, the way they have to fight for their rights in a predominately homophobic society. Premiere in Hungary!
Director: Döndü Kiliç
 
 
August 19
The Parade (Our History)
Switzerland, 2001, 78 min, documentary film
While filming the organizers of a gay parade in a conservative provincial town for seven months, the city-bred filmmaker who never had to become an activist to be gay discovers himself undergoing change.
Director: Lionel Baier
 
August 26
A Jihad for Love
USA/UK/Germany, 2007, 81 min, documentary film
A Jihad for Love is the world's first documentary film on the coexistence of Islam and homosexuality. Premiere in Hungary, do not miss it!
Director: Parvez Sharma

The first spot of the festival

At the press conference of June 18th, (see our earlier news) the festival was introduced, especially the spot for Gay Dignity (Pride) March, which was put together by a fantastic volunteer team of about 30 (cameraman: István Szőnyi, director: Mária Takács). The 1 min. 50 sec. spot features Hungarians and people from abroad who are coming to the march and explain to the viewer their reasons. With this, they invite everyone who supports diversity and human rights, so that there will be a lot of people at the march. The goal of the spot is also to generate more solidarity messages and video spots in which Hungarian and non-Hungarian participants can express their solidarity with Budapest Pride, from faraway countries too, sending their message even if they cannot be present physically at the march.