Queen Elisabeth II honours LGBT Work in C&E Europe

In this 40th birthday year of PRIDE, the LGBT people of Central & Eastern Europe have featured in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2010 with the award of an MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) to Clare B Dimyon. This honour is "in recognition of her services to promoting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Central and Eastern Europe".

Clare attended Bucharest GayFest 2009 and was celebrating her birthday inRomania when this decision was made at the end of April.

ACCEPT: New chief executive is Alina Oancea and Romanian Pride - GayFEST will be on 17th-23rd of M

At the beginning of the year, Romanian LGBT Organization, Accept Romania announced two important things. Accept has a new chef executive, Alina Oancea, a psychologist with great experience in NGO, trainings and service consultancy.