03/06/2012
03/06/2012
03/06/2012
MUZLAB: registration of participants is open! The start of QueerFest 2012
18/05/2012
01/05/2012
LGBT human rights abuse under the new "homosexual propaganda" law continues in St. Petersburg
Today 17 LGBT activists of St. Petersburg were arrested for carrying rainbow flags as part of the May 1st civil rights and freedom march on Nevsky prospect, city's main avenue.23/04/2012
Police ignores the court, while the court ignores propaganda
The court hearing of Igor Kochetkov's case had scarcely begun when it was already over. In five minutes Igor came out of the court hall saying: "This is the shortest court hearing in my life. The witness did not show up".16/04/2012
The court hearing of Igor Kochetkov and Sergey Kondrashov's cases, detained on April 7 and charged for "propaganda of homosexuality" and resistance to police ended in the hearing being again postponed.14/04/2012
The first court hearing in the in the history of Saint-Petersburg on charges of promoting homosexuality will take place on 16 April at 14:30. The defendants are chairman of the Russian LGBT Network, Igor Kochetkov, and lawyer Sergey Kondrashov. The trial will be held at 4 Sovetskaya Street, 26 (judicial section 210). After the trial, Kochetkov and Kondrashov will give remarks at a street press conference.07/04/2012
Police considered a protest against state homophobia as propaganda
06/04/2012
LGBT organization Coming Out has recently learned that one of St. Petersburg's largest advertising companies has refused to hang signs featuring photographs of Tchaikovsky, Tsvetaeva, and Nureyev in the city's center. The photos of these prominent figures of Russian culture contain quotes from their own works and letters which attest to their same-sex love.05/04/2012
Today St. Petersburg city administration denied LGBT activists the right to organize an International Day of Silence street protest. Basis for denial – the infamous "gay propaganda" law, which came into effect in St. Petersburg on March 30 of this year.