by admin | Jul 17, 2020 | #Russia, Bisexual, Civil Rights, Equality, Featured, Gender, homophobia, Human Rights, LGBTQ, Transgender
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow hung a pride flag from its building in the last week of June 2020, and that’s newsworthy. It’s newsworthy because flying the pride flag is barely legal in Russia. In 2013, President Putin signed a law called “for the Purpose of Protecting...
by admin | Jul 11, 2018 | #Russia, Featured
Russia’s anti-gay laws prohibit anything someone might deem “gay propaganda,” and specifically they include a ban on the rainbow flag, the symbol of the LGBT movement since it was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker and stitched together by 30...
by admin | Aug 25, 2015 | #Russia, Equality, LGBT
Russian police in St. Petersburg have briefly detained several LGBT activists who held pickets in defense of equal rights on a Russian military holiday. Police earlier this month arrested Yuri Gavrikov, who was the leader of the LGBT rights group, as he left his home...