LGBT in Russia

Children-404 gets between two and seven messages a week from teens asking for help. Source: Getty Images / Fotobank

Volunteer initiative helps Russia’s LGBT youth in fight for understanding

September 29, 2014 Anastasía Belkova, special to RBTH

The Children-404 project helps to provide psychologists and accommodation

Alina and Alisa did not originally plan to attract a lot of attention to themselves and create a media event out of their wedding. Source: All photos from personal archive

Reaction to marriage of ‘two brides’ in Moscow shows challenges ahead

September 7, 2014 Oleg Yegorov, special to RBTH

Russian society is becoming more tolerant, but patriarchal attitudes remain

Moscow officially registers marriage between two brides

August 22, 2014 Metro

Transsexual's official male identity helps couple circumvent Russian ban on gay marriage

Yelena Mizulina believes that the phrase "gays are also people" has extremist undertones. Source: ITAR-TASS

Who is Mizulina, and how can the majority be confronted?

July 9, 2014 Kira Egorova, RBTH

Kira Egorova asks how ordinary people can stand up to lone officials who seek to impose their subjective interpretation of morality on the nation

Russians have less dislike for nudists than for transsexuals - poll

June 21, 2014 RBTH, Interfax

Russians don't like either nudists or transsexuals but have less dislike for the former than the latter, a poll suggests

Khabarovsk gay picket disrupted by locals

May 19, 2014 RBTH, Interfax

An event titled "Rainbow Under Amur" organized in Khabarovsk by local LGBT activists lasted for only about three minutes before being disrupted by local residents

Sexual minorities say Moscow authorities banned Conchita Wurst march

May 15, 2014 RBTH, Interfax

Gay activists said the Moscow mayor's office has banned them from conducting a march marking the anniversary of the decriminalization homosexuality in Russia on May 27

Gay activists inform Moscow Mayor's Office on holding Conchita Wurst march of bearded women, men

May 13, 2014 RBTH, Interfax

Moscow gay activists have sent a notification to the Moscow Mayor's Office on holding the Conchita Wurst March of Bearded Women and Men, the GayRussia.ru portal reported

Gay parades not permitted in Sevastopol or Simferopol

April 16, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

The authorities in Sevastopol and Simferopol have refused to permit four actions of sexual minorities on the basis of the law banning the propaganda of homosexuality among minors

Court invalidates ban on gay events in Kostroma

April 4, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

The Kostroma region's court presidium on Friday invalidated the ban of two rallies and a gay march in Kostroma

Gay marriages don't make Russia, Europe closer to each other - Russian MP

February 19, 2014 Interfax, Interfax

Attempts of the European Union to export the culture of gay marriages to Russia do not assist the rapprochement of Russia and the EU, Russian State Duma foreign affairs committee chairman Alexei Pushkov said

70 years since the breakthrough of the Siege of Leningrad. Source: RIA Novosti

Public Editor: Sochi 2014 Opening Ceremony, gay rights and the Siege of Leningrad

February 14, 2014 Lara McCoy Roslof, RBTH

This week’s most popular themes among our readers ranged from a discussion over the Siege of Leningrad to a continuation of the debate over Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law

Last summer, U.S. LBGT organization Queer Nation initiated a campaign of boycott against Russian vodka. Source: <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/" target=_blank> Shutterstock </a>

Stolichnaya pledges donation to Russian LGBT community

February 12, 2014 Aleksandr Litoy, Denis Puzyrev, RBC daily

The company behind the Stolichnaya vodka brand has pledged $150,000 to support the Russian LGBT community

Ulyanovsk prosecutors check children's books for gay propaganda

February 10, 2014 RBTH, Interfax

The Ulyanovsk regional science library named after Lenin has asked the regional education ministry to check whether a series of books received by the library's Tolerance Center under the children's project of author Lyudmila Ulitskaya contain gay propaganda

A gay Russian-American examines Sochi protest

February 10, 2014 Iván Savvine, special to RBTH

A Russian-American LGBT activist gives his thoughts on the controversy over Russia's anti-gay propaganda law

Putin advises dropping topic of sexual minorities, concentrating on Olympics

February 7, 2014 RBTH, Interfax

Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte that he urged him not to mix sports, politics and human rights

President Vladimir Putin has given personal guarantees that members of the LGBT community who come to Sochi will not be persecuted. Source: Reuters

Sochi: Myths and reality

February 6, 2014 Gevorg Mirzayan, special to RBTH

Kremlin hasn't received law from culture, science figures on rescinding anti-gay law - spokesman

February 6, 2014 RBTH, Interfax

The Kremlin has not yet received a petition signed by 200 culture figures and 27 Nobel Prize winners calling for rescinding the law banning the propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said

At least ten hurt in xenophobic attacks in Russia in January - rights defenders

January 31, 2014 RBTH, Interfax

Ten people were injured and one died in Russia this January in xenophobic attacks, the Sova human rights center told Interfax on Friday

Russian sexual minorities contest anti-gay law in European Court of Human Rights

January 27, 2014 RBTH, Interfax

LGBT activists contested the Russian law banning the propaganda of homosexual relations among minors in the European Court of Human Rights after two activists were prosecuted for conducting pickets near a children's library in Arkhangelsk

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