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Related: About this forumThe Fear of Being Gay in Russia
By NORA FITZGERALD
Moscows first gay pride parade was held in May 2006, thirteen years after homosexuality was decriminalized in Russia. It was supposed to be a joyous occasion, the beginning of a new era of openness for the LGBT community
It didnt quite work out that way. LGBT marchers that day clashed with riot police, who tried to stop the event. We disturbed something very deeply rooted in Russian society, some very evil power of intolerance and violence, says Nikolai Baev, a prominent LGBT rights activist who attended the march.
Only a few months later, Russia saw its first regional anti-gay law passed in Ryazan, 200 miles east of Moscow. It was the first official sign that the Russian authorities would resist the LGBT movementa resistance that has grown and become increasingly violent as LGBT activism has grown over the last decade.
That violence hit Dmitry Chizhevsky in November 2013 when he attended a weekly meeting for the LGBT community and friends called the Rainbow Tea Party in Saint Petersburg. It was a place to socialize, drink some tea and play some games, Chizhevsky says. It wasnt a political event, and Chizhevsky wasnt much for protests.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/03/russia-putin-lgbt-violence-116202.html
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Some on DU give Putin a pass on this.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)At least, not until they do something worthy of MIRT's attention. They are pretty obvious once they get going, though.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)Been better lately
840high
(17,196 posts)nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)sanction? Although the lack of action by the authorities against such murders, seems like tacit approval.