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Moscow gay bars raided after law change
Less than 48 hours after the Russian Supreme Court declared the LGBTQ movement ‘extremist’, police raided Moscow gay bars. Putin’s henchmen broke into the clubs overnight, claiming to be searching for drugs. According to witnesses, the cops checked the documentation of club patrons and photographed them. They also photographed the passports of people they found …
Russian LGBTQIA+ community under threat of “extremist” label
Members of the Russian LGBTQIA+ community fear for their safety if labelled an extremist group in an upcoming court decision. On the 18th of November, Russia’s Ministry of Justice announced it had petitioned the Supreme Court to declare the “international public LGBT movement” an extremist element and ban its activities within the country. “The Russian …
Vladimir Putin seeks to ban ‘international LGBT movement’.
The so-called ‘justice ministry’ of Russian despot Vladimir Putin filed a motion this week to ban the activities of the ‘international LGBT public movement’. According to the ministry, the LGBT movement displayed ‘extremist activity’. Who knows what rates as ‘extremist’ in a country where former friends of the president regularly plunge from upper-story windows? Vladimir …
Russia edited all the gay out of The White Lotus and it’s a mess
A streaming service in Russia has butchered Jennifer Coolidge’s Golden Globe-winning “These gays, they’re trying to murder me” line from The White Lotus. In the last episode of the HBO drama’s second season, Coolidge’s Tanya is stuck on a yacht with her gay friends when she realises she’s in danger. “Please, these gays, they’re trying …
Putin: LGBT Propaganda 2.0 now with 100% more hate
Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, reeling from his so-far disastrous invasion of Ukraine, has pulled the old ‘look over there’ manoeuvre. In November, the Russian Duma passed LGBT Propaganda 2.0, an expansion of the 2013 legislation banning ‘promotion’ of homosexuality. Putin’s 2013 law prohibited mention of same-sex relationships around children. The 2022 bill expands those regulations …
Wife’s joy as basketballer Brittney Griner freed from Russian prison
Brittney Griner’s wife Cherelle, as well as friends and teammates, are celebrating the release of the US WNBA basketballer from a penal colony in Russia. US President Joe Biden confirmed the lesbian basketballer was “on her way home” after a judge convicted her on drug charges and sentenced her to nine years in prison. Russia …
Russia expands ‘LGBTQ propaganda’ ban in chilling crackdown
Russia is a step closer to completely banning what it calls “LGBTQ+ propaganda” from public life after the parliament passed a horrifying new law. The bill widens Russia’s homophobia 2013 law banning “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” for minors. Authorities used the law to detain gay rights activists. Now the parliament approved the new law …
All The Things She Said: t.A.T.u mega-hit 20 years old
‘All The Things She Said’ by teenage Russian music duo t.A.T.u delighted many and outraged more when it landed in 2002. Scroll down for the vid. The accompanying video made explicit the lyrical suggestion of a lesbian schoolgirl romance. The pounding anthem of teenage lesbian angst even offered a happy ending in the face of …
Finland’s rainbow child PM in trouble for dancing
Scandal has erupted over a video of Finland’s rainbow child PM Sanna Marin dancing at a private party. The leaked video shows the 36-year-old dancing and partying with various Finnish celebrities. Far-right and anti-government social media accounts also claim someone on the video shouts ‘the flour gang’, a local reference to drugs. However, no one …
Brittney Griner’s lawyers appeal her nine-year sentence in Russia
Lawyers for US lesbian basketballer Brittney Griner have filed an appeal against her nine-year prison sentence in a Russian prison. The 31-year-old was arrested in February at an airport near Moscow, a week before Russia invaded Ukraine. Airport officials found vape cartridges infused with small amounts of cannabis in her luggage. After months in detention, …
