A bill banng "homosexual propaganda" Rsia has s supporters the streets but gay rights activists are fightg back, the BBC's Pl Henley reports.
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- NO END TO CHECHNYA’S VLENT ANTI-GAY CAMPAIGN
- ANGRY CROWD OF FASCISTS ATTACK GAY ACTIVISTS RSIAN CY OF VORONEZH
- ZYELYENYY GAY, VORONEZH
- ZYELYENYY GAY, VORONEZH
- 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BILL PROV DIVISIVE RSIA
- CURRENT LOL TIME GAY, RSIA
- IN RSIA, VLENT VIOS SHOW A STARTLG NEW FORM OF GAY BULLYG
- GAY PROTTER ARRTED FOR WAVG RABOW FLAG DURG OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY RSIA
NO END TO CHECHNYA’S VLENT ANTI-GAY CAMPAIGN
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ANGRY CROWD OF FASCISTS ATTACK GAY ACTIVISTS RSIAN CY OF VORONEZH
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Homophobic Rsians have attacked gay activists the cy of Voronezh, the attacks have taken place followg a prott agast homophobic legislatn place parts of the untry and beg nsired others. Activists had announced that they would picket the cy earlier the week and several hundred anti-gay opponents gathered to unter the prott. Vios seen by PkNews show bottl, snowballs and other objects beg thrown at the pro-gay protters as well as fascists performg Nazi salut outsi an Adidas store.
At least one pro-gay prottor need medil assistance acrdg to sourc. Last month, gay rights mpaigners were attacked outsi the Rsian Parliament – a day after a leadg football team was forced to ny was both homophobic and xenophobic.
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The protts last month and today were agast a proposed new law banng “gay propaganda” that has been nmned by the European Parliament.
Rsian urts as many as ne regns currently punish the posive portrayal of gay people, measur first adopted 2006. Prime Mister Dmry Medvev, said he did not see any reason why homosexualy should be banned legally the untry, and that is not a big issue for many Rsians.
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Image ptn, The bill triggered protts Mosw and VoronezhA bill banng "homosexual propaganda" has passed s first readg the Rsian parliament. "I do not know any homosexuals personally, but I have seen them on TV and I saw them on 20 January the square here Voronezh, " says Yevgeny Mazep, a lawyer and lear of a mpaign group lled Special Battaln Voronezh, a cy of a ln people some 500km south of the Rsian pal, Mosw. On a eezg day January 2013, Mr Mazep helped arrange for a crowd of around 1, 500 to turn out Voronezh's Revolutn Square to show their disda for 14 monstrators - some of them gay, some straight - who opposed the law.
'GAY PROPAGANDA' BILL PROV DIVISIVE RSIA
"Homosexual propaganda aimed at mors will stroy tradnal fai, " he says. "Gay pri paras and public meetgs are exampl of liberate and unntrolled dissematn of rmatn about homosexualy, creatg an imprsn that perversn is the norm.
" In Mr Mazep's opn, homosexuals "do not work... Views like the are what gay men like Pavel Lebev, 23 and origally om Voronezh, often have to ntend ptn, Pavel Lebev was beaten at a gay rights prottMr Lebev anised the prott Voronezh.
He says he always knew he was gay - but blocked out: "I was prsed, I thought of suici.
CURRENT LOL TIME GAY, RSIA
"I remember, once, when we were watchg a gay performer on TV and my mother said he was dirty and nasty, I knew I had to keep my feelgs si.
IN RSIA, VLENT VIOS SHOW A STARTLG NEW FORM OF GAY BULLYG
" But Mr Lebev says he do not thk all of Rsian society is homophobic. "The only homophobia om lack of rmatn, " he argu.
GAY PROTTER ARRTED FOR WAVG RABOW FLAG DURG OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY RSIA
A society which has paratively ltle tradn of anti-gay discrimatn (at least the private sphere) is seeg a harng of attus along what mpaigners ll "tradnalist" l.
Leadg policians are happy to equate homosexualy and paedophilia the media. A gay man his 40s, he faked a marriage and moved to an isolated village six years ago, orr to adopt and brg up a son.
"He will probably not be amed to learn that his efforts to stop the Voronezh monstratn were unwtgly the start of one lol gay relatnship.