Rsian LGBT activist fed for 'gay propaganda' fay drawgs | Rters

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• I'M MAKG GAY ART
• RSIAN LGBT ACTIVIST FED FOR 'GAY PROPAGANDA' FAY DRAWGS

I'M MAKG GAY ART

MOSCOW (Rters) - A Rsian LGBT activist said she was fed 75, 000 roubl ($1, 000) on Friday on charg of spreadg “gay propaganda” among mors by publishg drawgs of same-sex upl wh children Tsvetkova and her lawyer said she was prosecuted over a seri of lourful pictur, some showg two men or two women, holdg babi or standg wh young children, sometim surround by rabow-loured love urt the eastern cy of Komsomolsk-on-Amur nfirmed the 27-year-old had been fed unr a 2013 law that bans dissematg “propaganda on non-tradnal sexual relatns” among young Rsians - legislatn nmned by rights groups. Homosexualy Rsia, where the fluence of the socially nservative Orthodox Church has grown recent years, was a crimal offence until 1993, and classed as a mental illns until marriage is not regnised and only heterosexual upl n legally adopt children Rsia. Print Vladimir Put has said he is not prejudiced agast gay people, but that he fds a Wtern willgns to embrace homosexualy and genr fluidy out of step wh tradnal Rsian valu.

RSIAN LGBT ACTIVIST FED FOR 'GAY PROPAGANDA' FAY DRAWGS

Rsian LGBT Network, the untry’s most proment gay rights mpaign group, lled charg agast Tsvetkova “nonsense”. “Rsian homophobia...

Is largely an oute of thori’ homophobic polici, ” said Svetlana Zakharova, one of the group’s board members. - A Rsian urt on Friday fed a LGBT activist 75, 000 bl ($1, 053) over "propaganda" drawgs of gay fai aimed at fluencg mors. One, lled "A fay is where love is, " shows gay upl wh their children.

She was fed Friday on the basis of a hugely ntroversial law banng propaganda of "non-tradnal" sexual relatnships to mors -- a phemism for gay relatnships. The law signed by Print Vladimir Put 2013 has been ed by officials as grounds to ban numero gay pri events but there have been relatively few prosecutns.