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Contents:

• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
• LISTEN GAY MOSW RAD, RSIA AT
• GAY RAD STATNS
• CHANGG PERCEPTNS OF WHAT IS LIKE TO BE GAY MOSW – ONE TOUR AT A TIME
• GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS
• GAY ACTIVISTS BEATEN AND ARRTED RSIA
• GLOBALIZG HOMOPHOBIA: HOW THE AMERIN RIGHT SUPPORTS AND DEFENDS RSIA’S ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

i am peter ripley om bexhill the i am 53 and i am gay om 1971 i am so happy that i am gay i have a gay as well ll philip i like your gay rad. Good lotn: cy centre, another gay club (911) the nearby area and a gay iendly hostel next to stay (Inga Hotels). I’d like to break the stereotype and show my guts an credible si of the cy’s iendly LGBT life, wh s glamour, amazg drag shows, ol bars, hot men, ‘Rsian gay banyas [steam rooms]’ and more!

By takg visors to some of Mosw’s most popular gay clubs, Alex says that he wants to change this perceptn wh tourists visg the pal cy. Although data is hard to e by, Rsian human rights activists say there has been an crease the number of hate crim mted agast gay men particular sce the passg of a 2013 law to ban the spreadg of “propaganda for non-tradnal sexual relatns” to mors. Homosexualy was a crimal offence Rsia until 1993, classified as a mental disorr until 1999 and the fluence of the nservative Orthodox Church – the head of which reportedly pared marriage equaly laws to those enacted Nazi Germany – has also helped create an environment where the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and tersex (LGBTI) Rsians are promised.

In s 2017 LGBTI equaly x Rabow Europe, ILGA-Europe ranked Rsia as the send worst untry Europe (after Azerbaijan) for gay rights. A monument to the fallen Rsian soldiers of the battle for the siege of Plevna durg the Rso-Turkish War, the 1990s was also known as a hub for gay hook-ups, “when we didn’t have apps for that, ” Alex explas. We will see how thgs will turn durg the World Cup, ” he says while walkg up the street to Mono Bar, a trendy gay nightclub Mosw.

'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY

Most recently, last month the gay health webse Parni Pl (Guys Pl) was blocked for “challengg fay valu”, as was the webse March. The ‘gay propaganda’ law is about fosterg tolerance, and changg the way society views some of s most vulnerable members, ” said the global anti-censorship work IFEX last year. What is tly shockg, however, are the allegatns of the btal tentn, beatgs and torture of men perceived as gay or bisexual the southern Rsia republic of Chechnya, as tailed by a seri of 2017 reports published by the Rsian newspaper Novaya Gazeta.

A rearch paper by Katja Sarajeva, who studied lbian spac the cy, observed that: “The gay clubs are populated by gay men and to a certa extent their heterosexual women iends which tends to make lbians visible even wh homosexual spac.

“If entreprenrs assume that gay men are terted party[g], drk[g] and sex they n easily translate this to a somewhat profable bs. ” She said that is assumed that women, particularly gay women, are terted thgs “such as poetry, drkg tea and ts”. 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.

LISTEN GAY MOSW RAD, RSIA AT

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. Official webse of the rad statnMore rmatn about the onle rad Gay Mosw Rad you found here: about the untry of your rad statnAs far as we are rmed sends the rad statn Gay Mosw Rad om the untry Rsia.

Rt police ed vlence to break up a gay rights monstratn Mosw yterday and arrted several European parliamentarians what crics say is the latt vlatn of human rights Rsia. A group of gay rights activists me unr attack om neo-Nazi thugs when they tried to prent a petn askg Mosw's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, to lift a ban on a Gay Pri para. Wns said rt police watched as far-right skheads chantg "ath to homosexuals" beat up several police failed to arrt the skheads but taed several of the Europeans - cludg the German MP Volker Beck, a member of the Green party, and the radil Italian MEP Mar Capatto.

Three Rsian gay rights mpaigners were kept ctody and charged wh disobeyg thugs and an orthodox prit attacked the activists when they were eed several hours after their arrt, wns said.

GAY RAD STATNS

In the summer of 2013, as part of a larger effort to channel polil dissatisfactn by spegoatg mori, the Rsian ernment lated s crackdown on the rights of gay, lbian, transgenr and bisexual cizens.

CHANGG PERCEPTNS OF WHAT IS LIKE TO BE GAY MOSW – ONE TOUR AT A TIME

Print Vladimir Put and his alli found support and guidance their anti-gay efforts om a group eager for an opportuny to notch some victori the battle agast LGBT eedom and equaly: the Amerin Right. On June 11, the Rsian Duma passed a law banng the spreadg of “propaganda” about homosexualy to mors, sentially a gag le crimalizg any advocy for LGBT equaly. Shortly afterward, a member of the Duma proposed a law that would revoke gay people’s ctody of their blogil children.

The bill’s sponsor said an terview that children would be better off an orphanage than wh a gay mother or father.

” On the same day the Duma passed s ban on gay “propaganda, ” also approved a harsh anti-blasphemy law promisg jail time for “offendg relig feelgs. Even as tensns have grown between Rsia and the Uned Stat, several Amerin Relig Right lears have spoken loudly favor of Put’s crackdowns on gay people and polil dissenters.

GAY PARAS BANNED MOSW FOR 100 YEARS

Workg through several channels, Amerin anti-gay activists quietly provid tellectual backg and ternatnal support that directly and directly fueled the rurgent anti-gay movement Rsia and other former Soviet stat cludg Lhuania, Moldova and Ukrae. In this report, we vtigate how Amerin activists fluenced Rsia’s new anti-gay laws by supportg Rsian anti-gay activists, ttifyg before lawmakers, and providg flty rearch to fan the flam of anti-gay sentiment. This effort Rsia provis a glimpse to the Amerin Right’s role an ternatnal movement that promot and fends the harsht anti-gay laws around the world.

On June 13, 2013, jt days after the Rsian Duma passed laws banng gay “propaganda”; and actns that “offend relig feelgs, ” a legatn of five French Catholic anti-gay activists — at least one wh ti to the far-right Natnal Front party — traveled to Mosw at the vatn of the Duma mtee on fay, women and children to discs, among other issu, Rsia’s plans to tighten s ban on adoptn by same-sex upl abroad.

GAY ACTIVISTS BEATEN AND ARRTED RSIA

Jog them was one of the most well-known figur the Amerin anti-gay movement, Natnal Organizatn for Marriage (NOM) print Brian Brown. Brown had worked closely wh the French anti-gay movement s protts of the untry’s marriage equaly law, travelg to Paris to monstrate agast the law and wrg a fundraisg email for Collectif Fale Mariage, one of the most proment groups workg to oppose marriage equaly France.

GLOBALIZG HOMOPHOBIA: HOW THE AMERIN RIGHT SUPPORTS AND DEFENDS RSIA’S ANTI-GAY CRACKDOWN

One was a jot meetg on chang ternatnal adoptn laws wh the Duma’s mtee on foreign affairs and s mtee on fay, women and children — whose chair, Yelena Mizula, thored the ban on “homosexual propaganda, ” along wh the adoptn bill.

Basil the Great Foundatn — a Rsian Orthodox group n by Konstant Malofeev, the head of a private equy group and a spired anti-gay activist. The Natnal Organizatn for Marriage did not publicly announce Brown’s participatn this ternatnal meetg of anti-gay mds.

Acrdg to a retranslatn of the Rsian translatn of the terview wh Brown, he told the reporters that rtrictg Rsian adoptns to gay and lbian upl was a way of haltg a slippery slope of “very negative velopments all over the world”:. In his speech to the mtee (aga, translated om English to Rsian and back aga to English), Brown warned of the dangers of allowg gay people to adopt children, sayg, “Every child should have the right to have normal parents: a father and a mother.