Six gay activists were arrested Saturday attempting to hold an unsanctioned gay pride rally in St. Petersburg, Russia.

About 30 gay rights activists gathered in a public courtyard within the city's State Hermitage Museum and chanted “Homophobia the shame of the ...

Five gay rights activists were arrested on Saturday at an unsanctioned gay pride protest in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg, an AFP correspondent reported. Using similar tactics to a gay rights protest in Moscow last month, the protestors tried to outwit the security forces by only revealing the location of the demonstration at the last moment. Around 30 ...

Russian police on Saturday detained several gay rights activists in a public courtyard within St. Petersburg's noted State Hermitage Museum, apparently for holding an unsanctioned rally. Two dozens activists unfurled banners and chanted "Homophobia the shame of the country" and "Marriage rights without compromises" before police moved ...

Gay activists in Moscow staged a brief gay pride parade Saturday in defiance of city officials who have banned such demonstrations since 2006, UKGayNews.org.uk reported.

During two separate events gay and lesbian activists marched for ...

Around 30 international gay rights activists held a brief protest on a central Moscow street Saturday, flouting the city authorities' ban on a gay pride event in a "cat and mouse game" with police. The activists, led by Russian Nikolai Alexeyev and also including British campaigner Peter Tatchell and German MP Volker Beck, ran along Leningradsky Prospekt in central Moscow ...

Around 30 international gay rights activists held a brief protest on a central Moscow street, flouting the city authorities' ban on a gay pride event, an AFP journalist witnessed. The activists, led by Russian Nikolai Alexeyev and also including British campaigner Peter Tatchell and German MP Volker Beck, ran along Leningradsky Prospekt in central Moscow with a huge rainbow flag ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Gay and lesbian activists eluded Russian security services in a five-hour game of cat and mouse on Saturday to hold the first gay protest in Moscow not to be broken up by riot police. After luring hundreds of riot police and undercover officers to a different location, a group of about 25 gay and lesbian activists unfurled a ...

Two Gay Pride parades were held without arrests in Moscow on Saturday, the first time the notoriously intolerant Russian authorities have not intervened since the inaugural attempt to hold the event in the capital in 2006. The activists' spokesman claimed that the absence of harrasment ...

Gay rights activists vowed on Thursday to go ahead with a gay pride demonstration in Moscow this weekend, despite a ban by the city authorities. "No illegal decisions by the authorities or court decisions will stop us from holding our demonstration," organiser Nikolai Alexeyev, one of Russia's leading gay rights activists, told reporters. "We will hold it Saturday May ...

Moscow city hall has banned a gay pride march planned for later this month, citing security reasons, organiser Nikolai Alexeyev said Thursday. "They called me and said they banned it. We don't yet have the paper," Alexeyev told AFP, saying that he would contest the decision in court. The organisers of the Slavic Gay Pride event had requested to ...