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• THE BEST PROVCE OF GUANASTE GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS PROVCE OF GUANASTE
• GAY CLUBBG AND STOIC ACTIVISM RSIA’S HOMOPHOBIC HEARTLAND
• GAY COUPLE LOOKG TO TRAVEL TO SAMARA OR SANTA TERA - PROVCE OF GUANASTE FOM
• BT NEW ARTIST AT THE GRAMMYS IS VERY GAY THIS YEAR

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Kky Bar & Rtrante1Gay BarsBy noamkosI've lived Tamardo for 7 years, and this is the first and only place dited for the LGBTQ muny (everyone... It is late Samara, an dtrial hub central Rsia and the cy’s only gay nightclub is provg difficult to fd.

GAY CLUBBG AND STOIC ACTIVISM RSIA’S HOMOPHOBIC HEARTLAND

A metal panel swgs open and the thumpg mic momentarily spills out to the, a nservative heartland, is one of the most homophobic ci Rsia. In 2012, there were seven gay clubs, today this discreet venue is all there is left. DJ Solntse on the cks at Samara’s only gay club night Photograph: Amy Macknon/Coda StorySecury is tight – bags are meticuloly searched and meras left at the door.

People have heard that gay clubs Mosw and St Petersburg have been attacked and don’t want to take any, who only wants to give his first name, lov clubbg but says he don’t e here often and ’s not hard to see why: spe beg the last gay club a cy of more than 1 ln people, is half empty on a Saturday night.

GAY COUPLE LOOKG TO TRAVEL TO SAMARA OR SANTA TERA - PROVCE OF GUANASTE FOM

“Sometim I’d like to go out public drsed up like this, but there’s no way I uld, ” Delis explas over the sound of Gloria Gaynor’s I Will ndoms distributed to clubbers Photograph: Amy Macknon/Coda StorySuated on the banks of the river Volga, 600 south-east of Mosw, Samara was known for s tolerance long before the Kreml started phg s socially nservative a 22-year-old gay man was beaten to ath 2009, his attacker was reportedly sentenced to five-and-a-half years prison, the most lenient murr sentence possible unr Rsian years later, an assembly of Cossacks lled for gay people to be banned om workg tn or state-owned media, although their proposals were never accepted.

Conservative heartlandsEver sce print Vladimir Put signed a law 2013 banng “gay propaganda” ndns have got worse for the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny law may be limed spe but the homophobic rhetoric that surround has led to an crease vlence agast LGBT people, acrdg to Human Rights is nservative heartlands such as Samara where the LGBT muny is most at risk, wh the activists standg up for them left overworked and Samara, Oksana Berezovskaya is the first person to ll if you are gay and fd yourself at the police statn the middle of the night. As the legal ordator for Avers, the cy’s only LGBT rights anisatn, her phone hardly stops and raised here, Berezovskaya has long been open about her sexualy, but did not bee an activist until the gay propaganda law was passed.

BT NEW ARTIST AT THE GRAMMYS IS VERY GAY THIS YEAR

A safe spaceThe Volga centre is a safe place to meet and also hosts unsellg ssns, support groups for gay fai and legal Sunday rpected crimal lawyer Tamara Sarkisiyan leads a semar on legal rights and what people should do if they bee victims of a vlent asslt.