by admin | Jul 11, 2018 | 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 | Apr 14, 2017 | Featured, Homophobia, News
The Chechan Republic, a small republic inside Russia’s current borders near the Caspian Sea, is a deeply unstable region, having gone through two violent civil wars since the ’91 dissolution of the Soviet Union. As a result, the area is fairly opaque to...
by admin | Aug 25, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+
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...
by admin | Nov 25, 2013 | Articles, Equality, Gender, Women's Rights
Would you take off your shirt and bra as a protest against persecution of women? That’s what the women of feminist activist group Femen do. The group has taken part in similar protests all around the world – from Berlin to New York and Istanbul. The group,...