- 19:37 01/08/2013
US pop divas Madonna and Lady Gaga, who championed gay rights during their shows in Russia, had cultural exchange visas that “did not provide for” performing for profit, Russian prosecutors said Thursday.
- 00:54 01/08/2013
Vodka was flowing outside the Russian Consulate in New York City Wednesday – not into glasses, but onto the street. Dozens of gay rights activists cheered as bottles were dumped directly opposite the consulate building – in the latest protest against Russia’s new laws on homosexuality, which critics say are part of a broader crackdown on Russia’s gay community.3
- 07:36 29/07/2013
Two Russian lawmakers requested prosecutors to launch a criminal case against a prominent Russian gay rights activist over his Twitter remarks, the Izvestia daily said on Monday.
- 21:48 28/07/2013
Signatures are being gathered for a petition to the White House to impose US visa bans on two Russian lawmakers who, the plea says, were personally responsible for anti-gay legislation.1
- 02:21 26/07/2013
Stolichnaya, one of the most popular vodkas in the United States, came out swinging at the Russian government Thursday with a message of support for the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) community worldwide.5
- 19:53 24/07/2013
Six gay-rights activists who were detained on Wednesday for holding an unauthorized rally in central Moscow have been released, police told RIA Novosti.
- 21:33 23/07/2013
Russian migration authorities on Tuesday banned four Dutch nations from entering Russia for three years after the group was implicated in promoting homosexual relations among minors.
- 18:06 22/07/2013
Four Dutch citizens detained by police during a gay rights seminar outside the northern Russian city of Murmansk appeared in a local court Monday suspected of promoting homosexual relationships among minors, according to human rights activists and local media reports.
- 18:52 02/07/2013
Four gay-rights activists were detained on Tuesday afternoon for staging an unsanctioned rally in downtown Moscow, the city's police press service said.1
- 17:52 29/06/2013
A sanctioned gay pride gathering in St. Petersburg on Saturday ended in the detention of demonstrators and violent scuffles between police and anti-gay campaigners.
- 11:42 28/06/2013
A St. Petersburg court has ordered a gay rights activist to pay compensation to the lawmaker responsible for the city’s controversial law banning “gay propaganda.”2
- 01:37 18/06/2013
A group of gays from Russia and the former Soviet republics living in the United States has a message for gay athletes and others planning to attend the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi: Don’t go.
- 01:24 14/06/2013
The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution expressing “deep concern” at Russia’s recent legal initiatives, including the controversial NGO law and gay propaganda ban.2
- 22:00 05/06/2013
Russians are dramatically less tolerant of homosexuality than are people in eastern and western Europe or North America and that intolerance has risen rapidly in recent years, according to a new global survey by the US-based Pew Research Center.1
- 05:47 10/04/2013
The upper house of the French parliament, the Senate, has approved the first and most crucial article of a draft law on gay marriage which met with fierce opposition in the predominantly Catholic country, Le Figaro reported.
- 01:13 09/04/2013
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday denied that the rights of gay people are being violated in Russia.
- 04:55 25/03/2013
Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in central Paris on Sunday protesting against a draft law that allows same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, BBC reported.
- 19:43 21/03/2013
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), one of the largest and most influential pediatrician groups in the United States, announced Thursday that it supports same-sex marriage, saying child health and well-being depends on a stable relationship between parents and not on the parents’ sexual orientation.
- 02:45 31/01/2013
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday expressed her concern about a Russian bill making “homosexual propaganda” among minors an administrative offense.3
