Russian Week against Homophobia will be held from March 28 to April 3, 2011 for the fifth time. Week against Homophobia is an annual campaign, which aims to direct the attention of state and society to the prevalence of discrimination against people of homosexual orientation and transgender people.

In 2011, the Week against Homophobia is held under the slogan “Love is stronger than hatred". The initiator of the action is an interregional public social movement Russian LGBT Network.

Week against Homophobia will take place in Kaliningrad, Tyumen, Petrozavodsk, Astrakhan, Novosibirsk, Pskov, Yekaterinburg, Arkhangelsk, Syktyvkar, Moscow, Tomsk, Kemerovo, Murmansk, Voronezh, St. Petersburg, more than a dozen cities in all.

Starting from March 28, activists will hold a variety of events: demonstrations, discussions, training, exhibition, whose main purpose is to convey the message of the Week to the authorities and the general public.

“Have you ever wondered why it is simpler and easier to hate than to love? For the same reason that to destroy is easier than to build. If we try to understand each other, many of the problems will go away by themselves, and for many people the love will cease to be something forbidden,” says the chairman of the Russian LGBT Network Igor Kochetkov.

Organizers of the Week against Homophobia note that there are still strong negative attitudes and intolerance towards homosexuals in our society. They are based on prejudice and lack of reliable information. This leads to a systematic infringement of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, as well as hate crimes - acts of physical violence based on sexual orientation or gender identity.