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Friday, 02 November 2012 09:57
Saint Petersburg’s Side by Side LGBT Film Festival in Full Swing
Written by Staff Writer
Side by Side LGBT Film Festival opened on 25th October, 2012 with a full house, setting the tone of the proceeding festival days which have also seen heavy turnouts to all events. Opening the festival was the Chilean film Young and Wild and director Marialy Rivas joined the audience in…
Authorities in Russia are investigating a milk brand, owned by Pepsi Co, after an anti-gay group accused it of promoting homosexuality to children. The milk label has a milkman and a cow with purple spots under a rainbow. The People's Council, a nationalist Orthodox organization, claims the label on Vesyoly…
The Kaleidoscope Trust is urging people to join an international campaign against laws that trample on the basic human rights of LGBT people in Russia. St Petersburg is only the latest place to propose a law that bans the promotion of ‘gay propaganda’, a move led by the governing United…
The Russian city of St Petersburg has proposed a law that bans the promotion of ‘gay propaganda’, a move led by the governing United Russia party. It has been condemned by LGBT rights organisations across the world. The law would see people or organisations fined up to £1,000 for the…
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