RUSSIA: Violence From Christian Activists At Attempted Moscow Gay Pride Parade
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More than 10 people were arrested outside the Moscow City Duma Sunday, where gay rights activists had planned to hold to protest a new law being discussed that would ban "homosexual propaganda," RIA-Novosti reported. Three of those arrested were Orthodox Church activists who had come to disrupt the protest, while the other detained demonstrators were all participants of the gay rights protest, including event organizer Nikolai Alekseyev. News media showed pictures and videos of physical altercations between the two groups in which a man holding a rainbow flag was being attacked as journalists stood by with cameras rolling. Other pictures showed activists hold signs, including one anti-gay protester whose sign read "Moscow is not Sodom."
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Labels: activism, bigotry, gay Pride, LGBT rights, Moscow, religion, Russia