The Gay & Lbian Communy Center Center

Contents:

• GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS
• MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS

GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS

A portn of the ticket sal, pendg on attendance is donated to the lol Greater Ccnati Gay & Lbian Communy Center each year.

While the event began as a private fundraiser, more and more alli are askg “do I have to be gay to attend?!?!

MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS

An update about The Center - November 1, 2013 Dear Friends of the Gay & Lbian Communy Center of Greater, Inc., Today, the Board tak a bold step for the future of our anizatn by beg a "virtual" on-le Center, engagg grant makg to lol GLBTQ groups, and shutterg s physil lotn are a private foundatn; our primary fundg source remas the ever popular Pri Night at Kgs Island. The Center mak this grant to double the amount of time (two months) and the double the number of street banners (32) downtown Ccnati to promote Ccnati Gay mt evolve wh the tim.

Matag and enhancg our web will velop/announce:An applitn procs and guil the new year for your group/anizatn to apply for fundg om the Gay & Lbian Communy Center of Greater Ccnati. Image ptn, Nikolay Alexeyev has been mpaigng for years for the right to stage gay paras RsiaMosw's top urt has upheld a ban on gay pri march the Rsian pal for the next 100 years.

Earlier Rsia's bt-known gay rights mpaigner, Nikolay Alexeyev, had gone to urt hopg to overturn the cy uncil's ban on gay had asked for the right to stage such paras for the next 100 also oppos St Petersburg's ban on spreadg "homosexual propaganda". The European Court of Human Rights has told Rsia to pay him Friday he said he would go back to the European Court Strasbourg to ph for a regnn that Mosw's ban on gay pri march - past, prent and future - was Mosw cy ernment argu that the gay para would risk g public disorr and that most Mv do not support such an September, the Council of Europe - the ma human rights watchdog Europe - will exame Rsia's rponse to a prev European Court lg on the gay rights issue, Rsian media report.

It had nsired Mosw's ban on gay paras verg the perd on this story. PRISTINA, Kosovo -- A few hundred people held the first ever pri para the Kosovo pal, Prista, on Tuday, to promote the rights of the gay para, lled "In the name of love, " was anized by ne non-ernmental anizatns to raise awarens and end prejudice Kosovo banners and rabow flags hand and mic playg, participants shouted "There is no genr love" as they walked peacefully between two ma squar Prista.

This is the first Pri Para, although the gay muny has held small march over the past three years supported by important polil lears and diplomats. "We believe a diverse society and that would add value to Kosovo society, " anizer Lendi Mtafa told participants at the end of the is still wispread anti-gay sentiment the predomantly Mlim untry of 1. Rsian police officers ta a gay rights activist wh his flag durg an attempt to hold a gay pri para Mosw May.

Asi om the sentencg of the punk rock band Psy Rt, there was another tertg lg out of Mosw today: A urt upheld the cy's 100-year ban on gay pri events.

Acrdg to the BBC, Nikolay Alexeye, Rsia's most proment gay rights activist, challenged the cy uncil's cisn to ban any events that uld be nsired "gay paras" om March 2012 until May 2112. The BBC adds: "On Friday he said he would go back to the European Court Strasbourg to ph for a regnn that Mosw's ban on gay pri march — past, prent and future — was unjt. "The Mosw cy ernment argu that the gay para would risk g public disorr and that most Mv do not support such an event.

RT reports that the Rsian ernment has been nng a mpaign agast "homosexual propaganda. " It adds: "A law agast promotn of homosexualy and pedophilia was approved and enacted St. Petersburg were recently sentenced unr the law for displayg a poster readg 'Beg gay is normal' on a street near a krgarten.

Ccnati Gay Communy quickly dissolved. passed an Issue 3 (November 1993) which led to the adoptn of Article 12 an anti-gay plank to. Note: some referenc you may fd "gay" and "gay and.

growg awarens of the diversy of the rabow and the timChris Good June 11, 2000 - he brought back the full slate of Pri events, ralli, paras, and ftivals after a five-year absence gay pri, April 7, 1973, march om Washgton Park endg Founta Square.

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