About us/ om oss

Welcome to the ILGCN!
The International Lesbian & Gay Cultural Network was created at the ILGA world conference in Paris in 1992 to promote international rainbow culture and exchange across borders.

The ILGCN is not a booking agency, has no membership fee and no funds of its own – but tries to facilitate contact between organizations and individuals – convinced that both cultural workers and political activists belong together on the rainbow barricades – using homo culture as a powerful weapon against homophobia and silence.

Special support is given to those facing dictatorial regimes,
oppressive religious leaders, intolerant media and gangs of neo-Nazis
and other homophobes attacking rainbow events.

ILGCN Annual Awards

Rainbow Iceberg -- for outstanding international achievements -- illustrating the enormous amount of unseen work behind such projects, and the great, future potential often unseen at the moment.


Grizzly Bear -- for pioneering efforts for homo culture and solidarity in the face of exceptionally ferocious homophobia.


Orfeo Iris -- for exceptional contributions to focus on the ’hidden holocaust’ – the situation of gays and lesbians in the Nazi death camps and neo-nazi persecution of homosexuals.


Ofeo Musica -- for pioneering achievements using ’rainbow’ music to calm the beasts and demons of homophobia and to help build bridges between worlds.


Sappho in Paradise -- for pioneering libraries, publishing houses and other efforts to promote homo poetry, literature & drama across borders. (Presented with Paradise Press-London.)


Imago Iris -- outstanding achievements in the world of art and photography, helping stretch the rainbow over international borders.


Clio’s Silver Cup -- for outstanding achievements in documenting and spreading information about lesbian and gay history.


Arco Nordica -- to Nordic organizations highlighting homo culture and international co-operation.

ILGCN Information Secretariat – Stockholm

Secretary General: Bill Schiller
(ILGCN conferences, Nordic Homo Council)
(Member of Helsinki Committees, ILGA, Montreal 2006 conference,
GALHA Humanists, Amnesty International)

Special co-ordinators:

Willi Reichhold
(Eastern Europe)

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Photo/ ill: Alexander Kukharsky of St. Petesburg
Rainbow Culture Conference in St.Petersburg




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Photo/ ill: Alexander Kukharsky of St. Petesburg
Rainbow Culture Conference in St.Petersburg




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Nazi & neo Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals exhibit



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ILGCN delegates at world homo culture conference in Warsaw





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Delegates to ILGCN conference in Warsaw



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Germany/Nordic delegation to Auschwitz




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Tupilak members travelling to ILGCN conference in Warsaw




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Krakow konferans för tolerans march och neonazi demonstration mot vår marsch maj 2004 Krakow Culture Days, conference and parade
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Krakow konferans för tolerans march och neonazi demonstration mot vår marsch maj 2004 Krakow Culture Days, conference and parade
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Gay aktivisten Colin de la Motte-Sherman Berlin



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Auschwitz maj 2004 Rainbow delegation to Auschwitz May 2004



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Krakow konferans för tolerans march och neonazi demonstration mot vår marsch maj 2004 Krakow Culture Days, conference and parade
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ILGCN World premier gay drama literary reading


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Germany/ Amnesty International at Paris Pride


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Kultur konferans i Sankt Petersburg Rainbow Culture Conference in St.Petersburg. Carl Johan Kleeberg från Humanisterna





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Kultur konferans i Sankt Petersburg Rainbow Culture Conference in St.Petersburg. Anna Linder gav seminarium om sin film som hon visade på kulturkonferansen







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Kultur konferans i Sankt Petersburg Rainbow Culture Conference in St.Petersburg Slava Boçnik ordförande för amnesti gruppen i Vitryssland och organisatör av Moonbow Minsk 2004

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Representative from Zimbabwe's GALZ group receiving the 2005 'Sappho in paradise' award to its library project from Pradise Press






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Sue Sanders receiving the 2005 ILGCN Clio's Silver Cup for LBGT history work from Bill Schiller, ILGCN Information Secretariat



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Moonbow visit to Belarus Embassy in London trying in vain to hand over greetings to lesbians and gays in Belarus


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Ian Steward secretary general of the ILGCN Literature Secretariat, London