Speaker: Lyoshka
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About the spreaker
Lyoshka Gerassimenko is an educator, counsellor, and trainer specialising in sexual education, rights, and ethics. As the member of the Orthodox Working Group in the European Forum of LGBTI Christian Groups and a board member of the Estonian Sexual Health Association, he he promotes inclusivity and awareness locally and internationally. Lyoshka has been active in LGBTI+ Christian context since 2009: he has helped to organise Eastern European LGBTI+ Christian conferences in 2010-2025, he has participated in the Mentoring Programme of European Forum as mentee (2015-2016), mentor (2018-2019) and coordinator (2024-2025) and has translated and edited many materials on LGBTI+ and Christianity in Russian, including "For I am are Wonderfully Made: Text on Eastern  Orthodoxy and LGBT inclusion" (editors Czerniak, Brinkshröder, Gerassimenko).