Topic: 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 ...
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 ...
2 short gay pride parades take place in Moscow amid strict policing, no arrests reportedTwo 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov vowed on Monday to 'crack down' on gay parades Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov vowed on Monday to crack down on gay parades, UKGayNews.org.uk reported. For several years, Moscow has experienced unprecedented pressure to conduct a gay pride parade, ...
Resplendent in pink satin and ostrich feathers, a drag queen runs through a tumbledown Russian village, miming to Gloria Gaynor's " I Will Survive".Just one of the startling scenes from "Jolly Fellows" (Veselchaki) -- the first mainstream Russian film about drag queens ...
Hillary Clinton cut the ribbon to unveil a statue of American poet and gay icon Walt Whitman in Moscow on Wednesday, in a ceremony accompanied by the Russian capital's homophobic mayor, Yury Luzhkov.Luzhkov has called gay people " satanic" and has banned ...
Russian gays denounce closure of Moscow's oldest gay clubRussian gay rights activists are denouncing the planned closure of Moscow's oldest gay club.The city has ordered the club shut down by Nov. 15 for reasons of immorality.Nikolai Alexeyev, the leader of Russia's gay ...
The article reports on the condition of global gay rights. "It's still relative, but ten years ago, outside South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe, there were no groups anywhere in Africa," he said. In South Africa, Nigeria and Jamaica, for instance, much ...
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