Joan Y. Psmith,

The first day of the 4 day theatre workshop I signed up for was fucking awesome.

I mean, yes, it was basically 12h of freezing our artsy arses off in an old factory building (main power is broken, it's around 4°C outside and the heating was off until late afternoon. *brrrr*) but it was still great. After spending the day with warm-up, impro and basically just getting to know each other we got to read through two of the four plays the people in the playwrights' workshop wrote and they are really well written and demanding. *is the tiniest bit afraid*

The acting tutors and the people in the directors' workshop are going to decide tomorrow morning who is going to play whom. So fingers crossed that whatever I get is going to be fun but feasible. ;)

On the one hand I really, really hope I won't be cast in the role of the [spoiler] whose [spoiler] probably [spoiler] - because her monologues are looooong and we only have 3 days for everything from learning lines, rehearsing, costume fitting to finally performance oon Monday night. But, OMG, would I love that role! I'm just a sucker for these angsty parts. :D

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Ever since I started writing for eurOut I wanted to do a list of Austrian lesBians. I've put it off for a long time because whenever I started to think about which openly lesBian Austrian women I would put on said list I didn't get very far. I don't know if there really are so few out lesBians in my home country or if I'm just that out of the loop. (Even though it'd be embarrassing I kind of hope it's the latter. Don't hesitate to shout at me in the comments how I dare to forget to list the legendary [insert name here]!)



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IGLHRC, the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission, is the 10th* LGBT organisation to gain consultative status to the UN.


photo by Kjetil Ree

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Let me apologise in advance for spamming your reading list. I've been lazy and haven't posted my eurOut articles over here in almost two months. :/ Don't worry, I'm not going to re-post every single thing I've written since then. Aaaanyway, here's the first of three.

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This week Lists Are Hot presents a list of European LGBT film festivals sorted alphabetically by country.


image by Ryan Baxter
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On May 22 the Bucharest "Diversity March" took place as part of the 7th annual Romanian GayFest. There haven't been any violent incidences and the parade has been officially supported by the Romanian Green Party. That does sound like good news, but let's take a look at lgbt rights in Romania in more detail.


detail from ILGA's Rainbow Europe Country Map

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Last Saturday, May 22, the first ever Slovak Pride Parade Dúhový PRIDE took place in Bratislava. Alas, not without disruptions.



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Wouldn't it be great if kids in kindergarten would hear stories about tough princesses who rescue princes from great danger, or about princes who fall in love with other princes or about growing up with two mums instead of a mum and a dad? Even though lgbt children's books have been around for a while, expecting to find them in a kindergarten's reader's corner still seems a bit too optimistic.

Not so in Norway. The Norwegian Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion says that children should be taught that having gay and lesbian parents is normal, reports Vårt Land.

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While the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is stepping up and is showing its support for LGBT people, Germany is doing quite the opposite.

The Assembly is adopting a Resolution on Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Meanwhile, Germany continues to block the European Commission's new Anti-Discrimination Directive.

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Searching 4 Sandeep is a really sweet documentary about finding love online. But even more than that it is the story of two women who made their relationship work regardless of their different backgrounds.


searching 4 sandeep (© Tania Lambert)
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Homosexual acts are illegal in 36 African countries, yet recent developments in Africa show a further homophobic backlash. Visible in developments such as the proposed introduction of the death penalty for homosexuals and the ban on "promoting homosexuality" in Uganda, the arrest of guests at a gay wedding in Kenya and "corrective" rape in South Africa. In Malawi the first gay couple to seek same-sex marriage is held in a maximum security prison.


source: wikipedia

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