Clare Dimyon
Clare Bat Dimyon MBE | |
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 Clare Dimyon at Bratislava Rainbow Pride 2010 | |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Educator and Broadcaster |
| Known for | LGBT Advocacy |
Clare Bat Dimyon is a British advocate for LGBT rights.[1] As a Quaker, Dimyon has campaigned for peace and human rights since 1984 when she attended Greenham Common to protest against Cruise missiles aimed at the then Soviet Union and the Soviet-occupied countries of central and eastern Europe.
In 2010 she was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire for "services to promoting the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in central and eastern Europe".[2][3]
In 2012, Clare conducted a rainbow tour of the UEFA 2012 football championships visiting LGBT in Mikolaiv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Donetsk and Kherson.. Rainbow flag for John Hughes, founder of Donetsk taken inside Donetsk stadium (now destroyed) for 28 June 2012.[4] As Dimyon informed the Ukrainian authorities "LGBT and Ukraine share a 'Constitution' Day, so we must be cousins, and that makes Ukrainian LGBT doubly precious".[citation needed]
In 2016, Dimyon spoke of her experience as a survivor of a life-threatening sexual assault in 1984, which occurred at Greenham Common, in support of a 14 year old who was abducted and raped in Oxford.[5][6]
Dimyon first created a purple banner proclaiming that “everyone knows a Black lesbian, Stormé, started Stonewall.”[7][8]
References
- ^ Hellen, Nicholas (8 December 2019). "Patient branded transphobic after asking for female medic". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ "Lesbian activist awarded MBE". Pink News. 3 November 2010.
- ^ London Gazette Supplement, issue 59446 12 Jun 2010 p 25
- ^ https://172430notohatecrime.wordpress.com/2012/06/28/news-from-our-clare-virtual-embassy-of-the-rainbow-nation-euro-2012/
- ^ "Oxford abduction: Rape survivor reads 14-year-old victim's letter". BBC News. 12 October 2016.
- ^ Dimyon, Clare (9 October 2016). "To the abducted schoolgirl in Oxford, here are some thoughts from a teacher who is a rape survivor". The Independent. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
- ^ "Stormé DeLarverie", Wikipedia, 29 August 2022, retrieved 25 November 2022
- ^ Heuchan, Claire (12 June 2019). "The Craftivism of Clare Dimyon: Celebrating Stormé". AfterEllen. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
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