St. Petersburg

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Activists have said that police refuse to investigate the creators of the website.

Gay people in the city are “your Goliath and Thank God I am your David!” he wrote on Facebook.

“We want to surround that message of hate with a message of love, and that’s what we’ve received since.”

Police sought to detain anyone holding a rainbow flag or other “gay propaganda” after a Pride parade was canceled in St. Petersburg.

His father and several men found where he was hiding, grabbed him and threw him in the back of a car. Chechen police had told his family to kill him.

Someone stole the man’s first set of signs that said banning Jews, the disabled, and “f–gots” would “make America great again.”

The St. Petersburg demonstrators called on Western governments to grant asylum to Chechen gays – something the US has refused to do.

The intimate image of Jon and Alex is part of a larger project by Danish photographer Mads Nissen called “Homophobia in Russia” that highlights how life is increasingly difficult for sexual minorities in Russia.

At least that’s what Timur Isayev, a self-described Russian homophobe, is claiming, reports Vocativ.com.

NEW YORK — The parents of Matthew Shepard, the gay Wyoming college student tortured and murdered in 1998, are traveling to Russia on Friday to spread their message of tolerance and acceptance in a country where anti-gay policies and attitudes are widespread. The centerpiece of their five-day trip is a gay film festival in St. Petersburg at …

MOSCOW — A Russian statue that pays tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs has been taken down in response to last week’s announcement by Apple CEO Tim Cook that he is gay. The six foot statue of an iPhone on a university campus in St. Petersburg was dismantled in part because it would be a violation of the country’s anti-gay laws.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — A lesbian dance instructor was found murdered in her car in the Russian city of St Petersburg on Sunday, reported QueerRussia. Ekaterina Khomenko, 29, who was known in the local LGBT community as an instructor of tango for same-sex couples, was found with a 9 cm slit in her throat. Police are now treating her death …

ST, PETERSBURG, Russia — The investigation into a November 2013 attack at a meeting of LGBT rights activists that left a man with the loss of vision in one eye, has been suspended, and will not be investigated as a hate crime.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian police have arrested four gay rights activists protesting in St. Petersburg on the opening day of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

ST. PETERBURG, Russia — Queer Russia is reporting that a bomb threat has delayed the opening of the St. Petersburg LGBT Film Festival.

SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia — Using baseball bats and air-pellet guns, a group of masked thugs forced their way into a meeting of LGBT equality rights activists Sunday, attacking those in attendance.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Sixty-seven people were arrested Saturday at an LGBT event in St. Petersburg, Russia, as anti-gay protesters clashed with LGBT rights advocates, a police official told LGBTQ Nation.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — President Barack Obama is telling gay rights activists and other Russian civil leaders that they are strengthening their country.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Spaced out along St. Petersburg’s main thoroughfare, about a dozen human rights activists staged individual protests to attract the attention of leaders of the world’s biggest economies to human rights violations in Russia.