Nikolai Alekseyev, a brash and provotive figure, has bee the public face of gay rights Rsia, but even some of his fellow activists disagree wh his approach.
Contents:
- ARZU GüZEL EVIM&REYNA GAYRıMENKUL
- AD FEATURG SAME-SEX FAY FI RSIA’S ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW
- RSIA’S BT-KNOWN GAY ACTIVIST HAS AN UPHILL FIGHT
- THE BATTLE OVER RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAW
- MAXIM RSIA'S LIST OF 'GAYS WE RPECT' PRAIS LGBT STARS WHO 'REMA REAL MEN'
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AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTThe Saturday Hill for The New York TimJune 17, 2011MOSCOWAT first glance, seemed like a breakthrough for homosexual equaly Rsia. After years of battlg the thori, here was Nikolai Alekseyev, Rsia’s most visible gay-rights mpaigner, on a popular prime-time bate show lled “Duel” recently talkg about plans to hold a gay pri rally the discsn quickly terrated, wh hostile and bigoted remarks g not jt om Mr.
Alekseyev’s opponents but also om the host, who at one pot equated homosexualy wh pedophilia. When a woman a Kentucky Derby-style hat started to a screed about “homosexual extremism, ” he had had enough. Alekseyev charged offstage, stampg a hole through the set as he nversatn about gay rights Rsia today is bound to be tense.
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Alekseyev, n be six years, he has flouted a ernment ban and held an annual gay-rights event that he lls Mosw Pri. ”BEING a gay-rights activist Rsia is not for the timid. Most were arrted sends after unfurlg a rabow flag or a plard nouncg homophobia.
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RSIA’S BT-KNOWN GAY ACTIVIST HAS AN UPHILL FIGHT
He has, for better or for worse, bee the face of a buddg mpaign for gay rights efforts have attracted news media attentn and forced policians to discs the issue. Put, Rsia’s prime mister, said homosexuals epen Rsia’s mographic crisis. And Rsia joed many Ain and Mlim-majory untri on Friday votg agast a Uned Natns rolutn nmng discrimatn agast homosexuals that, neverthels, Alekseyev, who found the group Gay Rsia 2005, believ that there n be no advance rights until gay people are allowed to prott a untry where the thori view any sort of public prott wh trepidatn, his posn has provoked hostily.
“Homosexualy n never be allowed to be nsired normal.
”Even other gay-rights mpaigners have cricized Mosw Pri, sayg the ralli and the vlence that typilly acpani them distort perceptns of the issue Rsia, where there is still signifint nfn about what homosexualy is and what exactly gay people want. “He foc only on the protts, ” said Igor Yas, another Mosw-based gay-rights mpaigner.
THE BATTLE OVER RSIA’S ANTI-GAY LAW
”Many Rsian gays, however, seem unterted the fight. Rsia has bee a far more open place the nearly two s sce the thori repealed a law agast male homosexual sex. Gay clubs and bars have opened many large ci, and the Inter has helped others small towns to nnect.
MAXIM RSIA'S LIST OF 'GAYS WE RPECT' PRAIS LGBT STARS WHO 'REMA REAL MEN'
In Mosw, there is a gay bookstore, a gay beach and even a gay taxi hours after Mr. Alekseyev’s latt Mosw Pri prott, the le outsi a gay club, Central Statn, had spilled onto the street and stretched around a block of downtown Mosw.