VKontakte, Rsia's largt social work, has angered the untry's gays and lbians by barrg them om ditg they are homosexual their relatnship stat. In a curt msage, a reprentative of VKontakte allegedly advised a gay work member to "change sex" if he wasn't happy wh the relatnship optns available on the web se. The homosexual muny is llg for a boytt of the social work.
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- RSIA'S LEADG SOCIAL NETWORK SAYS NO TO GAY RELATNSHIP STAT
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
- OCCUPY PAEDOPHILIA: FILMED ATTACKS ON LGBT COMMUNY BY ULTRA-NATNALISTS SURGE WH ANTI-GAY LAW
RSIA'S LEADG SOCIAL NETWORK SAYS NO TO GAY RELATNSHIP STAT
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VKontatke, Rsia's largt social work, is unr fire om the homosexual muny after sayg would not allow ers to dite their profile that they are a same-sex relatnship. He was reportedly told that gay marriag were banned Rsia and advised to "change sex" onle.
This has earned the ire of many om Rsia's gay and lbian muny. "They are not vlatg Rsian law by dog this, " says Nikolai Alekseyev, a leadg Rsian gay rights mpaigner. "But om a moral and ethil pot of view, nsirg that a huge number of gays and lbians support this work, e and help make money, they should regnize such relatnships.
Gay activists have found VKontatke's handlg of the suatn and s sarstic tone eply offensive.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
Although homosexualy was crimalized 1993, hostily agast gays and lbians remas wispread Rsia.
Attempts to hold gay pri march have been nsistently cshed, and several Rsian ci recently adopted new legislatn crimalizg homosexual propaganda -- a vague term that many fear will be ed to crack down on Rsia's already margalized homosexual muny. Some Rsian gay activists have end their membership of VKontakte. Some activists have lled on homosexual VKontakte ers to prott by addg a pk triangle, a symbol of the battle for gay rights, to their profile picture or swchg to the more gay-iendly Facebook.
OCCUPY PAEDOPHILIA: FILMED ATTACKS ON LGBT COMMUNY BY ULTRA-NATNALISTS SURGE WH ANTI-GAY LAW
Facebook not only allows ers to dite that they are homosexuals on their profile page, has even recently add marriage ins pictg two grooms or two bris. One of the reasons for Facebook's liberal stance on the issue may be that -founr Chris Hugu himself is openly gay.