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Written by Lisa Neff
Feb 11, 2010
Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov announced earlier this month that he will prohibit organizers from holding an LGBT pride parade in May.
“For several years, Moscow has been under unprecedented pressure to hold a gay pride parade, which cannot be called anything but a Satanic act,” Luzhkov stated. “We have prevented such a parade and we will not allow it in the future. Everyone should take this as an axiom and not a theorem.”
The leader of one of Russia’s oldest human rights organizations denounced the mayor’s decision.
“They have a full right to conduct a Pride parade in Moscow, just as we are entitled to rallies,” head of the Moscow Helsinki Group Lyudmila Alexeyeva told the Interfax news service.
She said Russia’s Constitution guarantees the right to rally and demonstrate.
Alexeyeva, however, seemed an uncomfortable ally for LGBT groups. She continued, “People with unconventional sexual orientation have a genetic deviation from the norm. But this is not their fault. These people should be treated the same way as others. Stop mistreating them.”
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