This year Russian lesbian and gay activists want to re-do in St. Petersburg attention to their situation.
"We plan to perform on May 17 in Moscow a flash mob," the lesbian and gay activist Igor Kochetkov said at a news conference. Also plans to organize "Ravnopraviye" in German "equality", a parade, to be held in June in St. Petersburg. The events will be on the problems of lesbians and gay men alerted the company, Kochetkov on.
Until now, the City of St. Petersburg, as in Moscow, all the demonstrations of the lesbian and gay movement has forbidden. For the parade last year, the organizers of the authorities proposed eleven sites, all of which were rejected: "The city and the country refuse to recognize us as equal citizens in this country," said organizer Maria Efremenkova annoyed at the time.
As the activists wanted to hold then the Winter Palace Square is a parade without a permit, the event was resolved after a few minutes by the police. Some activists were arrested after about four hours and released.
Because the demonstration of an anti-gay youth group, but was approved at the same time, the St. Petersburg lesbian and gay activists went to court and got last October before a Russian court. For Efremenkova this was an important victory: "For the first time in Russian history, a court has recognized the right of LGBT persons to the public to have part, now we were a marginalized social group with no rights, the freedom of assembly was for us.. even more taboo than for the anti-systemic opposition. This is now past and we can on our homeland, a democratic rule of law, be proud, "she was happy about the verdict.
Almost a month later took place in St. Petersburg, the first approved lesbian and gay demonstration in Russia. About a dozen participants marched through the city. This led to attacks by counter-demonstrators who were prevented by police. Whether the City of St. Petersburg will also accept this year's parade in July, is still open.
Source: GGG.at
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