PRIDE Solidarity - PRIDE in central & eastern Europe [Gallery]

3 Dec 2017: 1817-18 Constructive Revolution in St Petersburg - Anglo-Russian Success [Russian Heritage Conference]

 2020

LGBT History Month (Brighton & Hove) Lives of Dr Hilda Clark & Edith Pye - Famine, War & Kindertransport

100 Years of Quaker Lesbian Pride & Awe – Dr Hilda Clark & Edith Pye LH OBE, with Clare B Dimyon MBE, 3.05pm. In 1919 Dr Hilda Clark, a member of the Friends’ War Victims Relief Committee, arrived to assess a famine in Vienna, joined by her life-long companion Edith Pye, a nurse and midwife. Throughout the war they worked to save lives and relieve suffering in a way consistent with their pacifist Quaker beliefs. 

1969- 2019 

PRIDE at 50!

28 June 2019 Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, New York City - doing the count down...obviously!

15 June 2019 Vienna PRIDE

Talk to Viennese lesbians about Dr Hilda Clark & Edith Pye & Bertha Bracey (arrived 1921) and their service in Vienna 1919-23.

Claire Heuchan 12 June 2019 The Craftivism of Clare B Dimyon   After Ellen  

2013

Baltic PRIDE - Vilnius

Clare B Dimyon MBE condensed the English text, working with young Lithuanians and Latvians who did the translation work.

Lietuviška versija Hārvijs Bernards Milks

Latviešu versija Harvis Milkas

8 Aug 2013 UK Campaigner Tells Lithuania Harvey Milk Was one of Theirs

28 July 2013 Baltic PRIDE - Vilnius 2013

Tracing the Lithuanian roots of Harvey Milk | Harvis Milkas | Hārvijs Bernards Milks 

Mark172430    13 October 2013             St Paul’s Act of Remembrance - Commemoration of Ian Baynham

2012

UEFA2012: Celebrating PRIDE in Ukraine and Poland  

Mark172430  - press releases sent by Clare B Dimyon en route.

9 Sept 2012 Southwark LGBT: Just back from PRIDE Solidarity with Ukraine - Clare B Dimyon MBE

2 July 2012 Our Clare – Pride Solidarity Update - Rainbow  flag of Donetsk inside Donetsk Stadium

28 June 2012 Donetsk PRIDE 2012 celebrated by a select few...  1991 PRIDE (London) t-shirt

18 June 2012 Kharkiv was fun -  link missing.

13 June 2012  Soccer fans  fly Rainbow flag in Kyiv at EUFA 2012 Football Championships

May 2012  4th Mikolayiv Rainbow Spring - LIGA

20 May 2012 Waited in vain for instructions for meeting point for Kyiv PRIDE 2012

18 May 2012 Speaker at Kyiv PRIDE Conference

17 May 2012 Visit to meet Leigh Turner UK Ambassador in Kyiv - letter of support to take to 4th Mikolayiv Rainbow Spring

25 April 2012 Another launch of Rainbow Tour of Ukraine for UEFA 2012 - You can't have too many launches.

4 March 2012  Wembley Launch of Rainbow Tour of Ukraine for UEFA 2012 Finals

2011

23 Oct 2011 Independent on Sunday Pink List 2010 #27 Clare B Dimyon MBE

10-14 Aug 2011: Prague Pride 2011: buďte barevní a nebojte se - witnessed/participated in roar in PRIDE office as message arrived from Martina! (I'd been angling for weeks for that via contacts in US).

Supporting Estonian LGBT who... didn't want to parade... which was not understood by LGBT internationally!

06-11 June 2011 Festival of Baltic PRIDE - Tallinn gets underway

4 June 2011 Zuzana Uličianska  Homosexualita nie je v Desatore SME

Obama's PRIDE Speech with Estonian sub-titles - at direct request of Clare B Dimyon "Those who understand English least, need this most." [If you can understand/speak English you have access to everything online. If you don't resources can be very limited.]

10-28 April 2011 St Petersburg, Russia to participate in Day of Silence (Dzien Molchana) Russian LGBT very frightened but...doing it anyway!

1 April 2011 "Лесбиянка Британской империи" открыла в Таллинне фотовыставку | Карина Габазова | PostTimesES

UK in Estonia: 31 March - 14 April 2011 British Embassy presents an exhibition of photos PRIDE Solidarity - "PRIDE in central & Eastern Europe" an exhibition of photos by Clare B Dimyon MBE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Estonia 

26/04/2011 Судьбоносное мгновение: «Русский язык дал мне vsjo!» | | "Russian language gave me everything!" | Аналитика 

Pink News (3 March 2011)  British Ambo marks end of LGBT History Month by visiting National Library of Poland to view Radclyffe Hall’s ground breaking 1928 lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness published in Polish in Lvov (Lviv) before WW2. British lesbian Clare B Dimyon  alerted the British embassy after Lesbian conference in Brighton in which a contributor referred to a lesbian who said the memory of this book helped keep her alive in Concentration Camps 1939-45. Thank you Ric Todd..and for rainbow flag at British embassy on 9 June 2010!

“I had a chance to read The Well of Loneliness that had been translated into Polish before I was taken into the camps. 

I was a young girl at the time, around 12 or 13, and one of the ways I survived in the camp was by remembering that book. 

I wanted to live long enough to kiss a woman.” 

2010

3 Nov 2010 Lesbian activist receives MBE Pink News - as per media release

1 Aug 2010 #63 on Pink List 2010 Clare B Dimyon MBE Independent on Sunday 

LGBT History Month (7 July 2010) Czech PRIDE in Brno...and shame

https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/2010/06/support-czech-pride-in-brno/ 

2010 Birthday Honours 

Birthday Honours List (11 June 2010) Diplomatic Service & Overseas List

22 May 2010 Dúhový PRIDE v Bratislavie

My sme tu doma! | We ARE at home!

Som na vas taka HRDA! | I am SO proud of you.

Duhový Pride v Bratislavě oslavuje páté výročí

Dúhový Pride Bratislava máj 2010 

AND Hillary Clinton didnt confuse us with Slovenija!

(20 June 2010 Advocate ) In Slovakia, at that nation's first ever Pride Parade ...

last month, our charge, Keith Eddins, marched to represent the United States. There were anti-gay protestors who became violent and the police used tear gas, which our charge and other diplomats were exposed to - a quite unpleasant experience, but in service to a just cause. 

Clare met Keith Eddins at British embassy shindig - a pre-PRIDE in late summer 2009.

2009

June 2009 Dinner at UK Ambassadorial Residence in Kyiv

Emmeline Saunders (6 May 2009) Brighton woman flying the Rainbow flag across Europe

PRIDE Solidarity Tour

Romanian > Moldova > Bucharest GayFest > Baltic PRIDE -Riga, Latvija > Warsaw, Poland, Tabor, Czech Republic, Sofia, Bulgaria, Skopje, North Macedonia, Ukrainian LGBT Conference, Kyiv - Nash Svit, Budapest, Hungary

and last but not least

Bratislava for a lovely Rainbow Cycle ride.

2008

10 June 2008 FCO Flying Rainbow Flag is a decision for each Embassy Pink News

6 June 2018 Rainbow flag at British embassy, Warsaw. Clare went to thank the official who replied "I have never been so proud to be British.

3 June 2008 Rainbow flag flies at British Embassy in Riga for PRIDE Pink News

2 June 2008 Rainbow flag at British embassy in Riga after 

Embassy Reception (30 or 31 May) at Clare made a joke about seeing rainbow flags at embassies and gave one each to ambassadors of UK Richard Moon, Sweden, the Netherland(s) and Denmark. Dutch ambo not happy about receiving smaller flag than UK & Sweden...but I had 4 flags, 2 large and 2 small, no diplomatic sleight intended. After she finished speaking the British ambassador Richard Moon approached her and asked "So when are you coming?" Slightly astonished Clare replied:  "Monday 4pm afternoon tea?"

10 June 2008 https://www.thepinknews.com/2008/06/10/flying-the-rainbow-flag-up-to-each-british-embassy/  Pink News

8 June 2008 https://pluralsg.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/uk-embassies-fly-the-rainbow-flag-to-mark-riga-and-warsaw-pride-days/  Plural SG

6 June 2008 https://www.thepinknews.com/2008/06/06/rainbow-flag-to-fly-over-second-british-embassy/  Pink News

3 June 2008 https://www.thepinknews.com/2008/06/03/rainbow-flag-flies-over-british-embassy-in-riga/  Pink News

2007

Riga PRIDE...

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