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Federal court orders review in gay Russian’s asylum case
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court has ordered immigration officials to review their decision not to grant asylum to a gay man who said he was attacked for his sexual orientation in 2002 and 2003 in his native Russia and feared he would be persecuted if forced to return there. The U.S. Department of […]
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Ahead of Olympics, Russia sending mixed message on gay rights
MOSCOW — Anyone who switched on Russian TV recently might have been forgiven for thinking the Kremlin was relaxing its hard line on gays: Images of rainbow flags and a happy same-sex couple looking adoringly at their child flashed across the screen.
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Bomb threat disrupts opening of St. Petersburg LGBT Film Festival
ST. PETERBURG, Russia — Queer Russia is reporting that a bomb threat has delayed the opening of the St. Petersburg LGBT Film Festival.
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Putin says ‘xenophobic’ attitude toward Russian LGBT people is wrong
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin told a group of political leaders Wednesday that the nation and its people and government shouldn’t adopt a xenophobic attitude towards people with different sexual orientations.
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Anti-gay activist Scott Lively: Gay people are behind anti-gay violence in Russia
While Russia is experiencing an increase in violence directed at gay people and enacting new laws criminalizing pro-gay speech, US Religious Right activists Scott Lively and Linda Harvey are simply denying the prevalence of anti-gay violence. In fact, Lively is blaming other gay people for the uptick in hates crimes.
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IKEA deletes article on lesbian couple from magazine’s Russian edition
HELSINKI — Swedish furniture retailer IKEA says it has cancelled an article about a lesbian couple in the Russian edition of its customer magazine because that would have contravened that county’s law on gay propaganda.
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Russia’s sports minister: Mistake to pass anti-gay law before Olympics
MOSCOW — Russia’s sports minister says passing the gay “propaganda” law that sparked calls for boycotting the Sochi Olympics was a mistake — not because of its contents but because of its timing.
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Gay rights activists plan protest outside NYSE in response to ‘Russia Day’
NEW YORK — In the latest in a series of ongoing, high-profile demonstrations against the Russian government’s anti-gay laws, activist group Queer Nation will protest outside the New York Stock Exchange Monday while Russian government officials at the Exchange ring the closing bell.
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Foes of Russia’s anti-gay ‘propaganda’ law ponder new tactics
NEW YORK — The four-month campaign protesting Russia’s ban on “gay propaganda” is entering a new phase, as human rights activists try to heighten pressure on the Olympics’ top corporate sponsors to speak out before the Winter Games in Sochi.
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Boehner secures House meeting space for supporters of Russia’s anti-gay laws
WASHINGTON – U.S. House Speaker, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Friday secured meeting space for the top American supporters of Russia’s anti-LGBT laws, according to a report by BuzzFeed.