Rsell Gay - People Directory

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• RSELL GAY
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• MOSW RT POLICE VLENTLY BREAK UP GAY PRI RALLY
• POLICE ARRT 30 AT GAY PRI RALLY MOSW
• RSIAN POLICE TA GAYS AS PUNCH FLY
• RSIAN POLICE EE GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRTED MOSW

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Mosw police vlently dispersed a gay pri rally today that was banned by cy thori, drawg attentn to Rsia's rerd on gay rights as prepar to host the Eurovisn song 30 activists gathered near a universy south-wtern Mosw to prott discrimatn agast gays and lbians group, which clud Brish gay rights advote Peter Tatchell, waved flags and chanted slogans, cludg: "Homophobia is a disgrace of this untry! Rsian gay rights movement lear Nikolai Alexeyev was among those taed.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

After the monstratn, rt police taed other gay activists who appeared after the prott and were speakg wh the media. Mosw's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, has scribed homosexualy as "satanic" tentns e as Mosw prepar to host the fal of the Eurovisn song ntt. Some entrants have ed the ternatnal petn to draw attentn to gay rights Rsia, threateng to boytt the event if the gay pri para was not allowed to an earlier rally close to the centre of Mosw, about 50 monstrators om natnalist and Orthodox Christian anisatns nounced homosexualy.

One man was taed when he acced officials the Kreml of beg gay. Rsian police arrted at least 30 activists central Mosw on Saturday at a gay pri rally to mark 20 years sce homosexualy was officers pounced on the gay mpaigners moments after they unfurled banners and rabow-loured flags outsi the State Duma, Rsia's lower hoe of parliament, on Saturday afternoon.

MOSW RT POLICE VLENTLY BREAK UP GAY PRI RALLY

Activists chose to rally by the Duma to prott agast a feral bill that would impose f of up to 500, 000 roubl (£10, 500) for promotg homosexualy among mors. More than 10 regnal legislatur across Rsia have passed siar laws which have been wily than two s after the fall of the Soviet Unn, Rsia remas eply nservative and pennt opn polls show that about three-quarters of the populatn support supprsg public displays of homosexualy. "Gay people need medil treatment.

"The Orthodox Christian church, which enjoys pri of place among the untry's many fahs, has stoked tolerance towards gays, scribg homosexualy as a moral threat to Rsia. Nikolai Alexeyev, an aniser of the rally and a leadg gay rights mpaigner, said an terview on the eve of the rally that he had been forced to spend Friday night away om home orr to eva pture. If he giv the orr to allow gay pri events, then people's perceptn of the gay muny will radilly change.

"The gay pri rally weeks after the btalised body of a 23-year-old man was found Vologograd, southern Rsia. Alexeyev, who was fed 5, 000 roubl St Petersburg a year ago for "homosexual propaganda", said Rsian thori ntued to portray gay people as "eaks" to distract public attentn om the ernment's wir ltle to show for the past eight years of mpaigng, he said activists now believe tolerance towards gay people uld persist for many years to e. Alexeyev add: "When we started applyg to hold gay pri events, I thought we'd make people listen, but now, I have my doubts.

POLICE ARRT 30 AT GAY PRI RALLY MOSW

MOSCOW (Rters) - Rsian natnalists shoutg “ath to homosexuals” punched and kicked monstrators llg for the right to hold a Gay Pri para central Mosw on Sunday while rt police taed dozens of gay rights activists are attacked by natnalist monstrators Mosw May 27, 2007. Two European parliamentarians were among those held as they tried to prent a petn askg Mosw Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has lled gay march satanic acts, to lift a ban on the para. Natnalists and extreme Rsian Orthodox believers held ins and nounced homosexualy as “evil” while a group of thick-set young men turned up wh surgeon’s masks, which they said would protect them om the “gay disease”.

RSIAN POLICE TA GAYS AS PUNCH FLY

“We are fendg our rights, ” said a young gay man named Alexey, wh blood pourg om his nose after he was beaten up by a man screamg “homosexuals are perverts” oppose the mayor’s office. This is a pretty sry place, a pretty sry untry if you are gay.

RSIAN POLICE EE GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRTED MOSW

Hundreds of rt police led Tverskaya street central Mosw and pla-cloth police mgled wh a large number of foreign and Rsian aniser Nikolai Alexeyev said by telephone om a police statn that about 30 gay activists had been taed. ”Mar Cappato, an Italian member of the EU parliament, was also taed at the prott but later TOLERANCERsia crimalised homosexualy 1993 but tolerance is not wispread.

When asked about gay paras, Print Vladimir Put quipped Febary that his approach to sexual mori is guid by Rsia mographic problems. “It (homosexualy) is satanic, ” he said. One man holdg a ccifix threatened to beat up any gay person he saw.

Richard Fairbrass, a gay sger wh the Brish pop group Right Said Fred, was punched the face and kicked by anti-gay activists while speakg to Rters an terview.