St. Petersburg

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 …