Culture vs. Culture Club

Culture vs. Culture Club February 19, 2006

An opinion poll last year showed 43 per cent of Russians believed gay men should be incarcerated. So it’s no surprise that plans to stage Russia’s first gay pride parade have been vetoed by Moscow’s city government on the grounds that the idea has caused “outrage” in society, according to the European press including the British newspaper The Independent.

The Russian Orthodox Church has called it “the propaganda of sin”. Bishop Daniil of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk yesterday condemned the plans as a “cynical mockery” and likened homosexuality to leprosy.

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