news Russian police starts raids on gay clubs after LGBT ban

[bestfiction]

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/12/02/moscow-police-raid-gay-clubs-after-extremist-ban-on-lgbt-community-a83297

 

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Moscow police carried out raids of gay-friendly nightclubs, bars and saunas in the city center overnight, media reported.

The raids came one day after Russia's top court banned the “international LGBT movement,” a group that does not formally exist, sparking fears of widespread persecution of LGBT people and rights groups.

 

Police burst into a club on Malaya Yakimanka Ulitsa where about 300 people had gathered for a party for the LGBT community, the Ostorozhno Novosti Telegram news channel reported.

 

The police, who raided the premises under the pretext of searching for drugs, detained an unspecified number of people, Ostorozhno Novosti said.

 

“In the middle of the party, they stopped the music and [the police] started to enter the halls. There were also citizens of other countries at the party. At the exit, they photographed passports without permission,” Ostorozhno Novosti quoted an anonymous eyewitness as saying.

 

“It was an established scheme, this is how they closed similar clubs in St. Petersburg. Someone was panicking,” the eyewitness said.

 

Security forces were also reported to have raided a gay men's sauna near Tsvetnoy Bulvar.

“Everything is happening like a regular drug raid. No violations were found, but the mood was spoiled. It was indelicate in the sauna ... they made everyone lie face down,” an anonymous eyewitness told Ostorozhno Novosti.

 

A club near the Avtozavodskaya metro station and a men's strip club near the Polyanka metro station were also raided, the outlet reported.

 

In St. Petersburg, the gay club Central Station was forced to shut down Friday after its landlords evicted them over the Supreme Court's ban on the LGBT community.

 

Russia on Thursday banned the "international LGBT movement," claiming it was an extremist group in a move that cements a long crackdown on the community as the Kremlin pushes ultra-conservative social values.

 

The conservative turn promoted by President Vladimir Putin — often portrayed as an existential fight against Western liberal values — has accelerated since the offensive in Ukraine.

 

If applied to individuals, the "extremist" label means gay, lesbian, transgender or queer people living in Russia could face years in jail.

 

 

[Komet]

[Communion]

Failed capitalist police statr. 

[magazine]

they're probably gonna send them to fight in the war 

[YellowRibbon]

Fascist Russia at it again!

[Hector]

Absolutely alarming. Putin & the Kremlin are cancers and disgraces to modern day society.

[Raptus]

4 minutes ago, magazine said:

they're probably gonna send them to fight in the war 

Ayy, yo,

They need soldat like me
Sta-lin

[Anthinos]

I'm speechless. Putin is a criminal. It's just scary how right-wingers around the world are dehumanizing us.

[Blue Jeans]

It is depressing how Russia went from a promising developing 21st century country with some freedom in the 2000s to the fascist dictatorship later 

[NumbSoul]

Holy ****ing ****...... It's terrifying that things like this can still happen in 2023... 

[spiritboy]

Wonder if LGBT friendly singer will say anything about this?  They should also refrain from performing in Russia

[Daddy]

As a gay person I would have left many many years ago. Russia is insane. 

[Cain]

3 minutes ago, Daddy said:

As a gay person I would have left many many years ago. Russia is insane. 

A lot of people do not have the means to just up and leave their country. And they shouldn’t have to, everyone deserves rights in the place they were born. 
 

This is absolutely disgusting and I feel so bad for the Russian LGBTQIA+ community 

[Daddy]

6 minutes ago, Cain said:

A lot of people do not have the means to just up and leave their country. And they shouldn’t have to, everyone deserves rights in the place they were born. 

Duh. *I* would have left a long time ago

[Anthinos]

And some in our community continue to downplay right-wing extremism or even vote for it. You think that can't happen in the West? Fascism doesn't only exist in Russia. It becomes particularly dangerous when they start hunting us down on the internet (dating sites etc.) and/or with AI. Today it's just Russia, in 10 years it might be a Western country.

[alexrex]

Feel for the LGBT+ people in Russia and in many othe homophobic and ignorant countries. 

 

This is such a disgrace.

[ZIVERT]

The joys of the Kremlin: shaking hands with Hamas one day, declaring LGBT+ people to be terrorists and raiding gay clubs the next.

 

The only terrorism they would find in Mono Bar is playing Fad once every 5 songs  

[Villas]

That’s horrible 

[GhostBox]

This is what Trump and the gop would love  to do here. But hey some on this forum say we deserve this kind of stuff 💀

[Suilen]

1 hour ago, spiritboy said:

Wonder if LGBT friendly singer will say anything about this?  They should also refrain from performing in Russia

Foreign artists don't really tour Russia following the invasion, and one local artist who had lesbian motives in her songs denounced her support for the community, so it's all pretty grim.

[nostalgic]

I'm sure g4p lesbians t.A.T.u. will be releasing a strongly worded letter criticizing this any day now...if Julia isn't too busy calling us ******* again. 

[KOMH]

A fascist totalitarian scumhoIe

[max8max7]

The way things turned left so fast for Russia it is really mind boggling.

[Aston Martin]

5 hours ago, Blue Jeans said:

It is depressing how Russia went from a promising developing 21st century country with some freedom in the 2000s to the fascist dictatorship later 

And it can happen anywhere. While plenty of humans are good people, the accumulation of both political power (and large amounts of money tbh) often rewards bad behavior so the people who are okay with hurting others usually end up in control. And then they do **** like this. It's disgusting.  

[A.R.L]

Putin wants to go back to the days of the Soviet Union, he has the mentality of revenge in his stupid mind, no matter how sure he is of another failure