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Moscow Gay March Organisers Invite Mayor Of London

In an interview with PinkNews.co.uk website, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone said he would consider attending Moscow Pride in 2008, if it does not clash with his campaign to for re-election.

Popularity: 16% [?]

July 3, 2007

Ukrainians Protest Against Elton John’s Concert in Kiev

Elton John, one of the most famous British pop artists, will perform his free charity show in Ukraine’s capital Kiev on June 16. The concert is aimed to support Ukrainian children suffering from HIV/AIDS. The show will last for about 2,5 hours and will take place on the central square of Kiev.

Popularity: 5% [?]

June 11, 2007

Russians Protest Against Gay Parade in Moscow

Russian nationalists, communists and religious believers gathered in Moscow on Saturday to denounce plans for a Gay Pride march, as gay activists prepared to lobby the mayor to lift a ban on the event.

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Popularity: 9% [?]

May 26, 2007

Moscow Court Upholds Gay Pride Parade Ban

Moscow City Court has rejected the appeal filed by organizers of the Moscow gay pride parade challenging the Tverskoy district court’s ruling that banned the event, Interfax news agency reported April 2.

Popularity: 4% [?]

April 2, 2007

Human Rights Activists Urge Moscow Mayor to Allow Gay Parade

The Moscow authorities should give the go-ahead to gay pride parades, Alison Gil the head the Moscow office of the Human Rights Watch group, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying on Tuesday.

Popularity: 2% [?]

March 21, 2007

Moscow Mayor Speaks Against Homosexuality at London

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov publicly spoke against homosexuality calling it “wrong and unusual” in a London news conference attended by his Paris and Berlin counterparts, both of them gay, the Bloomberg.com web-site reported March 1.

Popularity: 5% [?]

March 2, 2007

Moscow Gay Activists Sue City Mayor

The organizers of Moscow’s banned gay parade on Monday filed a lawsuit against the city’s mayor, Yury Luzhkov, for publicly calling the parade “a satanic act”.

Popularity: 4% [?]

February 26, 2007

Activists to Sue Moscow City Authorities Over Gay Pride Ban

Russian gay Pride organizers are planning to take the Moscow city government to European Court of Human Rights over its refusal to allow the event last year, the Gay.com web-site reports.

Popularity: 1% [?]

January 19, 2007