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Seventy Protest Outside Moscow Gay Club Demanding Its Closure

MOSCOW, August 10, 2009 (GayRussia.Ru)  –  “Moscow is Not Sodom” chanted a group of 70 people on Saturday in Moscow during a public protest.

The action organised by the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) was allowed by the city authorities.

In July, the Prefect of the Northern district of Moscow, Oleg Mitvol, started a campaign for morality, targeting gay clubs, saunas and ‘love hotels’.

The campaign accelerated on Friday evening when the Prefect broke up into the Body & Soul club with the anti drug police and the prosecution department, arresting two visitors.

“Family against homosexuals”, “Russian against homosexuals” and “God is against homosexuals” could be read on the posters held by the group.

Konstantin Bendas, the representative of the Christian organisation said the picket had two objectives: to back up the campaign of the Prefect and to attract attention to the question of gay venues in residential districts.

“It once more shows that anti-gay protesters have the right to freedom of assembly in Russia which is not the case of gay citizens,” commented Nikolai Alekseev, head of the LGBT Human Rights Project GayRussia.Ru

Oleg Mitvol is a candidate for the next Moscow city elections in October.

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Two Arrested at Moscow Gay Club Following Raid by Police, Prefect – and the Media.  The crusade of Oleg Mitvol, the Prefect of the northern district of Moscow against gay entertainment in the Russian capital reached a new step last night (Friday). (UK Gay News, August 9, 2009)

 

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