Lucian Dunăreanu

Lucian Dunăreanu (born November 22, 1977) is a Romanian gay rights activist and the executive director of Be An Angel Romania, an LGBT rights organisation based in Cluj-Napoca.

Since 2004 he has organized the Gay Film Nights Festival, which includes, alongside a film festival, the Miss Travesty contest and the Gay Prize Gala for contributions to Romania's LGBT community. Dunăreanu is the editor of Romania's first LGBT magazine, "Angelicuss"; he was also editor of the short-lived "Switch" magazine.

He is also the owner of the Toxice musical group, which is the first professional drag queen band in Romania and was the first Romanian group of its kind to enter the Eurovision national preselection. The slogan of Toxice is that "Drag queen is an art and has nothing to do with sexual orientation".

Alongside these activities, Dunăreanu also participates in AIDS awareness and prevention campaigns.

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*Be An Angel
*Gay Film Nights
*Gay rights in Romania