Moscow

Russia

World
Oct 14 2020

Russia ordered to pay compensation to activists unlawfully arrested at ‘gay propaganda’ protest

Gay artist uses helium balloons to fly a rainbow flag over Moscow

World
Aug 20 2020

Gay artist uses helium balloons to fly a Pride flag over Moscow – and that sound you hear is Putin throwing a tantrum

Gay Russian teen drugged and hospitalised because of his sexuality

World
Aug 11 2020

Gay Russian shares terrifying ordeal of being hospitalised by his own family, drugged and tortured – all because of his sexuality

UK embassy Moscow Russia Pride flag

World
Jul 29 2020

Russian foreign ministry made formal complaints to UK, US and Canadian embassies for flying the rainbow flag during Pride month

Polina Simonenko, a trans activist who took part in a series of single-person protests that dotted Moscow, Russia. (Vkontakte)

World
Jul 21 2020

Russian trans woman who picketed against Vladimir Putin’s vile rollback of LGBT+ rights ‘faces rape’ in male prison

World
Jul 18 2020

More than 140 Russians protesting against homophobe Vladimir Putin detained and dragged into police vans

Putin urged to ban rainbow ice cream over fears it promotes homosexuality

World
Jul 07 2020

Vladimir Putin urged to ban delicious rainbow-coloured ice cream over fears it ‘promotes homosexuality’. Yes, really

Russian straphangers took time out of their busy schedules to briefly queue up and wipe their feet on an LGBT+ Pride Flag. Classy. (Screen capture via Twitter)

World
Jul 06 2020

Meanwhile, in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, homophobes are queuing up to wipe their feet on an LGBT+ Pride flag

Russia

World
Jun 28 2020

Over 30 people arrested in Russia for supporting an LGBT+ activist charged with spreading ‘gay propaganda’

Russia

Pride
Jun 25 2020

US embassy defiantly unfurls Pride flag as Russia prepares to lurch even further into the dark ages on LGBT+ rights

World
May 12 2020

Man shot dead by ‘secret gay lover’ after his own mother allegedly tried to blackmail them over their relationship

Singer Charli XCX. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Music
Dec 05 2019

Charli XCX shows what an ally looks like with inspiring speech about the power of the queer community at Russia gig

Music
Nov 19 2019

Techno BDSM punk band Hatari make powerful statement in solidarity with queer Russians at Moscow gig

Out of the Closet, which contains no explicit content, is based on real stories of men coming out to their mothers.

Theatre
Aug 30 2019

Pro-Putin nationalists disrupt performance of gay play in Moscow with homophobic slurs