Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement ‘extremist’
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Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.
Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ parties, under the pretext of a drug raid, local media reported.
Eyewitnesses told journalists that clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services. They also said that managers had been able to warn patrons before police arrived.
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I dunno if anyone is interested but of you got some spare coins laying around the Canadian based charity Rainbow Refugee has been helping get out threatened LGBTQIA+ folks from multiple countries including Russia for quite a while now by arranging sponsorships and legal support and advice for LGBTQIA asylum seekers. If you know anyone looking to get out or would like to donate here's a link :
https://www.rainbowrefugee.com/
My daughter is queer and if Trump wins, we will probably have to seek refuge in Canada. I have an uncle there, which will also help, but this is a good resource. Thanks.
Nothing happened to lgbt people when Trump was in office. It won't happen if he gets voted back in. Like Trump or not, he's never been anti-lgbt.
Fuck off, liar. Transgender ban in the military against the advice of generals in easily the most obvious one.
The best you could say is that he let several states set up ways to systematically genocide LGBT people, (cough cough Don't Say Gay) but he also actively fought to take away several of their rights, so that would still be a mischaracterization.
Trump wouldn't give a shit if every LGBT person on earth was dead, he'd just find new minorities to go after.
Trump is anti anyone who doesn't conform to his view of how people should be. This is especially problematic because he also doesn't trust intelligence, and of course to Trump, if you can successfully open a crisp packet you're considered dangerously intelligent.
Oh yeah. Totally an ally.
https://www.hrc.org/news/the-list-of-trumps-unprecedented-steps-for-the-lgbtq-community
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