Quickie Link [1]: Russian Gays to Ignore Parade Ban [2]

By : vanrozenheim on May 15, 2007 - 11:20 PM
Politics [3]
(Moscow, Russia) - Russian gay rights activists vowed on Tuesday to ignore an imminent ban by Moscow city authorities on a gay pride parade later this month. Police arrived shortly before the start of a news conference saying they wanted to stay and listen, parade organiser Nikolai Alexeyev said. The meeting was also disrupted by a homophobic tirade by a journalist who compared homosexuals to paedophiles and a second who quoted the Bible and said Russia shouldn't imitate Western values.

Note: Read full article on Gay Russia [4]
Links
  [1] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=5&lead=1
  [2] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1192&lead=1
  [3] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=&topic=15&lead=1
  [4] http://gayrussia.ru/en/news/detail.php?ID=9174