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Official: Reports that IOC will punish athletes for wearing pride pins are untrue
A high ranking official with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) told LGBTQ Nation on Wednesday that published reports that the IOC would punish LGBT athletes or allies for acts such as wearing pride pins or holding hands, are “misleading” and “mischaracterized.”
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In Moscow, U.S. runner Nick Symmonds dedicates medal to gay friends
MOSCOW — U.S. middle distance runner Nick Symmonds on Tuesday dedicated silver medal at the World Track & Field Championships in Moscow to his gay and lesbian friends back home, becoming the first athlete to openly criticize Russia’s controversial anti-gay “propaganda” law while on Russian soil.
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Pat Buchanan defends Putin on anti-gay law, Pussy Riot prosecution
In his syndicated column Tuesday, conservative activist Pat Buchanan defends Russian president Vladimir Putin’s persecution of gay people and political prosecution of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, saying that Putin is just “trying to re-establish the Orthodox Church as the moral compass of the nation it had been for 1,000 years before Russia fell captive to the atheistic and pagan ideology of Marxism.”
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Soccer association seeks clarification on Russia’s anti-gay ‘propaganda’ law
GENEVA, Switzerland — The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has asked authorities in 2018 World Cup host Russia for “clarification and more details” about a new anti-gay law, joining the International Olympic Committee in seeking answers from Moscow.
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Lansing, Mich., votes to end ‘sister city’ relationship with St. Petersburg, Russia
LANSING, Mich. — The city council in Lansing, Mich., on Monday voted unanimously to adopt a resolution calling for an end to its “sister cities” relationship with St. Petersburg, Russia, over country’s anti-gay “propaganda” law.
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Canada says it will favor refugee claims by gay Russians
SURREY, British Columbia — Canada’s Immigration Minister Chris Alexander said Monday that the country’s refugee board will favorably review asylum claims by LGBT people fleeing persecution in Russia.
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Olympic committee leadership ‘cross’ with Russia over anti-gay law
LONDON — The Olympic leadership is “cross” with Russia for implementing anti-gay legislation ahead of the Winter Games, a senior IOC official said Monday, insisting that there must be no restrictions on athletes in Sochi next year.
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Russia’s Interior Ministry says anti-gay law will be enforced during Olympics
MOSCOW – Russia’s Interior Ministry, which controls the police force, said Monday that the country’s controversial anti-gay “propaganda” law will be enforced during the Sochi 2014 Olympics.
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Q&A on anti-gay legislation in Russia
MOSCOW — The law on “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors” was signed into law by President Vladimir Putin on June 29. Originally titled the law on “homosexual propaganda,” the bill criminalizes public expression of support for nontraditional relationships.
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Influential Russian news anchor: Gays ‘unsuitable for a continuation of life’
MOSCOW — The influential news anchor of Russia’s news program “Vesti,” appearing Thursday on Kremlin-controlled Russia 1 television, said Russia’s law against “gay propaganda” doesn’t go far enough.