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Fall of the Wall meets Stonewall
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9-18 June 2010

June 2010 marks 40 years since Gay Pride Parades first burst onto the streets. Over the weekend of 27-28th June 1970, lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people took to the streets of New York , Los Angeles , San Francisco and Chicago to celebrate the first anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.

To mark this milestone the 12 Star Gallery will host an exhibition that documents the 10,000 mile (16,000 km) PRIDE Solidarity Tour 2009 by British lesbian, Clare Dimyon as she "Pride-hopped" her way around the Gay Pride parades and other events, in a dozen major cities in Central & Eastern Europe.

Clare says: "This exhibition is part celebration, part tribute to LGBT people across Central and Eastern Europe who face unique challenges of “coming out” in countries still emerging and recovering from totalitarian occupation. The coincidence of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with the 40th anniversary of Stonewall reminds us that this message of liberation has a particular resonance for the LGBT people."
    Fall of the Wall meets Stonewall

    "Gay Pride Parades in Central & Eastern Europe have a significance beyond the struggle for the human rights of LGBT people. They also act as an exercise in democracy, in countries deprived of democratic processes for almost half a century. PRIDE Parades contribute to the strengthening of democratic values as these countries continue to emerge and recover their national and cultural identities in the post-Soviet era. Curiously, this process of emergence: the retrieving and piecing together of identity and culture shares many similarities with the process of "coming out" familiar to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people."

    With the support from the European Parliament's Intergroup on LGBT Rights www.lgbt-ep.eu

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