More from the country that loves to hate, a Moscow court has banned Gay Prides for the next 100 years, reports Gay Star News.
“The Tverskoy district court had previously banned public events that qualified as gay parades from March 2012 to May 2112. In defiance, leading gay activist Nikolay Alekseev claimed to have found a loophole in Russian legislation and submitted requests for gay pride parades for the next 100 years to the Moscow Mayor’s office. But the Moscow city court has now upheld the refusal of Alekseev’s requests. It’s a decision which he claims was not unexpected and he plans to first appeal to the high courts in Russia and, failing that, he will take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
‘We wanted to see the reaction so we could show the European Court of Human Rights that it’s not just past events which are banned illegally but also the future events,’ he told Gay Star News.
He added: ‘It was a way for us to show the absurdity of the system for gaining permission for public events.’”
Good job Nikolai Alekseev, you have brought world’s attention on Moscow’s discrimination against the LGBT community. I hope we can follow through and keep the pressure on Russia to change it’s ways.
