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15 LGBT Activists Arrested In Moscow and St. Petersburg During Sochi Opening Ceremonies
Share this: Russian media reports that 10 more LGBT activists have been arrested in Moscow: Elena Kostyuchenko, Anna Annenkov, Lynn Reid, Knicks Nemeni, Olga Mazurova, Gleb Warrior, Tarja Polyakova, Daria Starshinina and two Swedish nationals. The group...
Human Rights Watch Releases Disturbing Video Of LGBT Russians Beaten By Anti-Gay Vigilantes
Share this: Human Rights Watch has released a disturbing video detailing many of the violent criminal exploits of Russian citizens and anti-gay vigilante groups who’s hate has become empowered by Russia’s recent passage of anti-gay laws. As...
Two Senegal Men Sentenced To Six Months In Prison For Being Gay
Share this: The Associated Press is reporting that two men in Senegal were sentenced to six months in prison each, for being gay. The two were arrested after neighbors alerted police to their home in Grand Medine neighborhood of Dakar, the capital. In...
Coca-Cola Dropped From Major UK LGBT Awards Show Due To Sponsorship of Sochi Olympics
Share this: Coca-Cola has been dropped from the Brand of the Year shortlist for the UK’s 2014 Out in the City and G3 Magazines award ceremony because of its sponsorship of the Sochi Winter Olympics. The Awards dubbed the UK’s ”Gay...
Coca Cola (Coke) Defends The Arrest Of Gay Russian Man Holding a Rainbow Flag In Protest
Share this: Late last week we reported on young Russian LGBT activist Pavel Lebedev was detained and arrested for holding a rainbow flag during the Olympic Torch Relay. What you may or may not have noticed was that on the official Olympic security guard’s...
Perkins, Brown, and Sprigg Cry Over Virginia AG Mark Herring Supporting Gay Marriage – Whaaaa!
Share this: Now that Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is the first Democrat to hold his state’s top legal job since 1993. and has publicly stated that he will side with the plaintiffs opposing the state’s gay marriage ban, reversing...
“Unofficial” LGBT Breakfast Panel Happens Outside The WEF Conference in DAVOS
Share this: While not in the “formal program” of the World Economic Forum in DAVOS itself, in the midst of the poisonous campaign against LGBT citizens in Russia and in Nigeria, where homosexuality is illegal, life threateningly dangerous...
Dutch Brass Band To Play ‘Y.M.C.A.’ at Sochi Olympics In Protest – Hey, Hey Hey, Hey, Hey!
Share this: The popular Dutch band, Kleintje Pils, says that it will include the popular 1970′s gay disco anthem, “Y.M.C.A.” as part of its musical repertoire this year at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in protest of Russia’s inhuman anti-gay...
HRC Slams Putin On ABC Interview, Still Does Not Call For Boycott of Sochi Olympics
Share this: The Human Rights Campaign has responded with a strongly worded press release to the comments made by Vladimir Putin on yesterday’s broadcast of ABC’s This Week. I am sure Vladimir Putin is quaking in fear. “Today on ABC’s This...
