Mosw Court Upholds 100-Year Ban On Gay Pri Events : The Two-Way : NPR

Contents:

• GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS
• MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS
• U.S., WTERN EMBASSI FLY GAY PRI FLAGS MOSW
• WATCHG ‘PRI’ RSIA: DEFYG MOSW’S ANTI-GAY LAW
• PRI MOSW: GAY ACTIVISTS RISK VLENCE TO HOLD PARA

GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS

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. They were bombard wh homophobic attacks.

Although gay sex was crimalized 1993, the queer muny fac ongog challeng wh discrimatn and legal protectn. Homosexualy was classified as a mental illns until 1999, and many stutns, like the ary, operate on the “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” policy.

MOSW COURT UPHOLDS 100-YEAR BAN ON GAY PRI EVENTS

Luzhkov, who was dismissed September 2010, opposed gay paras and ma nsistent efforts to ban them. Dpe prolonged dista for the Rsian queer muny, a 2019 survey showed that 47 per cent of cizens thought that “gays and lbians should enjoy the same rights as other cizens. Woman protts Rsian homophobia, 2017.

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.

U.S., WTERN EMBASSI FLY GAY PRI FLAGS MOSW

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.

Displays of the rabow flag are unmon Rsia, where “homosexual propaganda toward mors” was outlawed 2013 and tolerant attus toward the LGBT muny persist. June 25 marks the 43th anniversary of the rabow flag’s first appearance as a gay pri symbol at the 1978 Pri para San Francis.

Has long been cril of Rsia’s gay rights rerd. Pri, a Brish edy about the unlikely llaboratn between strikg me workers and gay activists Northern England the summer of 1984, has fally ma to Rsia.

WATCHG ‘PRI’ RSIA: DEFYG MOSW’S ANTI-GAY LAW

The them of gay pri, wh spiratnal imagery of gay men fightg agast discrimatn, make Pri a dangero film Rsia. Legislatn signed by Print Vladimir Put 2013 mak “gay propaganda towards mors, ” fed as any posive pictn of a homosexual liftyle to those unr 18, a crime. Sce the law was adopted two years ago, anti-gay prottors have dispted several screengs of films wh LGBT them.

Petersburg-based polician who was one of the prcipal sponsor of the anti-gay legislatn, phed for a boytt of Cann wner Blue is the Warmt Color, the last LGBT film to screen on general release Rsia. “It’s really ol to show the film Rsia which boldly go agast the gra of the official homophobic propaganda and do such playful and heart-warmg way, ” he says. “The topic (of gay rights) is whe-hot right now, ” Vzberg said.

PRI MOSW: GAY ACTIVISTS RISK VLENCE TO HOLD PARA

“As the Wtern world is beg more liberal about same-sex marriage, Rsia is rollg back to the dark ag wh s anti-gay propaganda law. “I didn’t e to see the film bee of s gay theme, ” said Tatiana, a woman her mid-50s.

Other viewers, however, cled to talk to THR, suggtg beg loud and proud about gay rights is still a risky proposn here.