Moscow bans gay pride parade for 7th year in a row

Dan82 · May 19, 2012

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/18/moscow-bans-gay-pride-parade-for-7th-year-in-a-row/

Russian gay rights activists said Friday Moscow under its new mayor has banned a gay pride march set for May 27, saying that society would react negatively to the event which could be viewed by children.

A city official in charge of security, Vasily Oleinik, told organisers the march would “provoke a negative reaction in society,” according to a statement released by the GayRussia group.

The public would see the march as a “provocation, causing moral harm to children and teenagers,” the official warned, according to the group.

Organisers of the gay pride, led by Nikolai Alexeyev, had applied for permission to hold a march down a central street with up to 1,000 participants and a rally on Revolution Square next to the Kremlin...

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Moscow bans gay pride parade for 7th year in a row

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