April 04, 2007

• Declaration by Members and Partners of Russian LGBT Organisations Network,
  Representatives of Right-Protection Organisations and Individuals on Breaking Civil Rights for Self-Expression, Information Search and Circulation.

February 01, 2007

• Russian president formulates his position on possible gay parade in Moscow
  Vladimir Putin, the president of the Russian Federation, at the instance of the journalists, gave his comments on the initiative of some sexual minorities to have a parade in Moscow in May 2007.

January 30, 2007

• Gay Pride parade "satanic": mayor
  "This is a personal conflict between the organiser of last year's Gay Pride event in Moscow, Alexeyev, and the mayor of Moscow," said Ed Mishin, editor of the http://www.gay.ru website and Queer magazine

August 24, 2006

• Unknown Thieves Break into Gays Apartment. Two in Intensive Care
  Russian Information Agency "Novosti", quoting a source from Moscow Law Enforcement Agencies, relayed information regarding an attack in an apartment inhabited by several gays at Novokuzminskaya Street #2/8, in the south-east of the capital

July 27, 2006

• Moscow Lesbians Create Self-Defense Group
  In the near future Moscow will see the beginning of a new group Women's Group of Strength Training and Self-Defense." Classes will be held in a high-level sport club and are promised to be taught by professional trainers.

July 21, 2006

• LGBT Hotline of Russian National GLBT Center "Together" Hits Two Years Old
  The service, which was organized by the Center "Together", began taking calls on July 1, 2004. Since that time, volunteers of the phone line have heard out stories of several thousand callers who phone daily from various regions throughout Russia and even as far as neighboring foreign countries.

July 14, 2006

• Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and Metropolitan Cyril Opposed to Gays and Pro Spiritual Isolationism of Russia
  Yuri Luzhkov expressed his bewilderment about criticism from European countries and the US about gay bashings in Moscow at the end of April, beginning of May 2006.

July 13, 2006

• Gays & Lesbians to attend 2nd Russian Social Forum during G8 Summit
  Included in the forum is a seminar on the problems of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transvestite emancipation, under the name "Love Threatens Modern Society." The seminary was launched by the "Leftist Antifascist" (LAF) movement, whose membership includes several gay activists.

July 5, 2006

• Vladimir Putin to give interview on "Yandex" - ask the President about gays and lesbians
  The editors of gay.ru created the heading "Sex Minorities." You can add your question under that heading by visiting htt://president.yandex.ru.

June 21, 2006

• Premiere Screening of Film about a "Happy Lesbian Family" Included in the "Festival of Festivals - 2006"
  "My Happy Family" is Russia's first documentary film to tackle the question of motherhood in a lesbian family.

June 01, 2006

• New Gay Travel Guide "Spartak 2006/2007" Invites You to Take Off on a Fascinating Retreat
  In all, the guide includes 49 countries and 70 cities worldwide. Information about Russia is included in English as well.

May 28, 2006

• Clash of Fascists and Orthodox with SWAT in Moscow Center
  The activities organized by Gay and Human Rights Activists to protest against homophobia in the center of Moscow turned into a clash with SWAT teams and homophobes.

May 27, 2006

• "Gay Parade" Cancelled, but Scandal Continues
  It is still not known which Russian Gay Activists are to take part in the activities that have aroused loud scandals for the past few weeks.

May 26, 2006

• Grigori Yavlinsky: Gays Should Not Create Provocation in Moscow nor Adopt Children
  Three questions concerning the position of the party Yabloko" on homosexuals were selected by editors of the site Gazeta.Ru for an online interview with Grigori Yavlinsky.

May 24, 2006

• Parade Divides Russian Gays
  "This gay parade is actually making our life much tougher," says Ed Mishin, one of the founders of Indigo. "This is the first time in my life actually that people are scared of being gay in Moscow."

May 15, 2006

• Council of Europe Secretary General condemns recent violence against gays and lesbians in Moscow
  "The violent homophobic protests in recent weeks were neither isolated nor spontaneous. They have taken place against the background of a sustained campaign against the rights of gay and lesbian citizens".

May 01, 2006

• Protests cancel Moscow gay party
  Protesters shouting homophobic slogans and hurling eggs and bottles have forced a Moscow night club to cancel a mass gay and lesbian party.

April 25, 2006

• Russian Human Rights Plenipotentiary Report: Not a Single Word about Gays or Lesbians
  Russian Federation Human Rights Plenipotentiary, Vladimir Lukin, has accounted for his efforts for the year 2005.

April 18, 2006

• Russia's Constitutional Court to Deliberate Appeal of Same-Sex Marriages
  Edward Murzin insists that the Family Code of the Russian Federation is not consistent with Statues 17-19 of the Organic Law, which guarantees every citizen equal rights and freedoms.

April 17, 2006

• Series of Gay Prose to be Published in Russia
  In April publisher "Kvir" (Queer), well known for its gay magazine of the same name, introduces 3 books in a series entitled "Dark Walkways."

April 10, 2006

• Russian Orthodox Bishop-Populist Follows Footsteps of Moscow Boss
  The Russian Orthodox Church, in its push to turn Russia into a Christian government, is now taking law-making initiative upon itself.

April 04, 2006

• Suspect in Murder of Journalist Ilya Zimin Considered a Hero in Moldova
  Local residents justify Velchev’s actions, saying that "he murdered a homosexual."

April 03, 2006

• "Homosexual Propaganda" Prohibited by Public Prosecutor in Rostov Oblast
  The Public Prosecutor of the Rostov Oblast has contended that "Homosexual propaganda is prohibited" in Russia.

March 30, 2006

• Russian Orthodox Church Rams its Values into the Foundation of Human Rights
  Metropolitan Cyril also refers to the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in 1975 as "political pageantry."

March 23, 2006

• Ang Lee's Gay Drama Brokeback Mountain to be seen in 34 Cities Across Russia
  The March issue of the Russian Gay Magazine "Kvir" (Queer) is dedicated to Brokeback Mountain. Depicted on the cover are Ennis and Jack tenderly pressed up against one another.

March 20, 2006

• Russian Orthodox Church Demands Ban of Openly Gay Boris Moiseev's Concert
  The events of the last few months clearly reveal the determined intentions of the Russian Orthodox Church to gain control of secular life of even non-Orthodox Russian citizens.

March 17, 2006

• Russian GLBT Authors Receive Prizes for Best 2005 Books
  The Second Annual Bestseller List of Russian Books for Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transsexuals was announced earlier this year. The books were ranked by quantity of books sold from the gay store "Indigo" and online store Shop.Gay.Ru.

March 16, 2006

• Igor Kon: "Power Allows for Unpunished Verbal Affronts on Gays and Lesbians"
  An eminent Russian sexologist Igor Kon has stated his alarm due to the growth of homophobia in Russian society. In the last few months, many Russian politicians, religious leaders and artists have spoken out with appeals to limit the rights of sexual minorities.

February 19, 2006

• Moscow Gay-Lesbian Culture Festival "Rainbow Without Boundaries". 1-5 may, 2006
  Internet projects, art projects, initiative groups, organizations, authors, artists, designers and everybody who is interested in the Event are welcome to join the program and take part in the Festival.

February 16, 2006

• Lonely crusader of the Urals. Russian champion of same-sex marriage fighting an uphill battle
  Mr. Murzin is the only politician in Russia who openly champions the idea of same-sex matrimony.

February 14, 2006

• The russian's senior Muslim cleric called on Muslims and Orthodox Christians to "thrash" homosexuals
  Ed Mishin, editor of the russian gay magazine "Kvir" (Queer), lamented the lack of tolerance among Russian clerics on Ekho Moskvy radio.

February 13, 2006

• ILGA-Europe and IGLYO want to produce a comprehensive report on the Social Exclusion of LGBT Youth in Europe
  The report will include case studies collected from European countries, reflecting real life experiences of European LGBT youth in relation to social exclusion.

February 08, 2006

• First Eastern European and Central Asian AIDS Conference will take place in Moscow
  The conference, expected to gather 1500 participants, provides a unique opportunity for policy makers, researchers, civil society representatives and people living with HIV from Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

February 06, 2006

• 1,000,000 Banners: Russian Gay sites join together thanks to Gay.Ru
  Two banner systems – 468.Gay.Ru and 100.Gay.Ru, which were launched in the Fall of 2005 using RotaBanner technology, just recently overcame the millionth mark of showings.

January 26, 2006

• The President of Bashkortostan denounced the propagation of same-sex love
  "... We need to limit the propagation of same-sex love on central television channels..." This statement came from the mouth of Murtaza Rakhimov...

January 25, 2006

• Homophobic Deputies will demand a ban on the distribution of "Brokeback Mountain" in Russia!
  He called out to have the film banned or to limit its distribution.