[Content warning for homophobia, including description of a homophobic murder]
2006: Ryazan region bans “propaganda of homosexuality among minors,” making “promoting homosexuality among juveniles” punishable by fines of up to 20,000 rubles (£380)
2006: Ryazan region bans “propaganda of homosexuality among minors,” making “promoting homosexuality among juveniles” punishable by fines of up to 20,000 rubles (£380)
2007: LGBT activist petition the mayor of Moscow to life the ban on the pride parade, but are met up violent neo-Nazis who assault them – the police to nothing until they arrest the LGBT activists.
January 2010: Federal Constitutional Court backs the Ryazin law
October 2010: European Court of Human Rights rules that the ban on Moscow Pride in 2007, 2008 and 2009 violates the Convention for the Protection of human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
June 2011: 20 LGBT activists protest the pride ban in St Petersburg. 14 arrested for “disorderly conduct”.
January 2012: 3 LGBT activists arrested for holding signs promoting LGBT education in Arkhangelsk.
February – August 2012: propaganda bans in Kostroma, St Petersburg, Magadan, Novosibirsk, Krasnodar Krai, Samara, Bashkortostan; bringing the total to 8 regions.
April 2012: Activist fined for holding signs promoting LGBT rights in St Petersburg
May 2012: 40 LGBT activists arrested and charged with organising and participating in an unauthorised gathering for trying to unfurl a rainbow flag outside Moscow City Court.
July 2012: St Petersburg fines over 70 people under its anti-LGBT propaganda law.
September 2012: Moscow authorities rule against an LGBT pride parade.
December 2012: Russian authorities reject 5 requests for authorisation of a protest against the federal anti-homosexual bill.
20th January 2013: authorised protest of LGBT activists violently broken up by 100 homophobes.
25th January 2013: TV personality Anton Krasovsky fired for coming out on live TV. Federal anti-propaganda law passes lower house of parliament.
28th January 2013: LGBT protesters detained.
February 2013: Kaliningrad passes anti-propaganda law which includes adults, rather than just minors.
March 2013: Artem Kalinin attacked in live interview[1]. Putin pushes government and Supreme Court to amend adoption laws so that foreign same-sex couples cannot adopt Russian orphans.
10th May 2013: Vladislav Tornovoy, a 23-year-old, is killed[2] by his "friends" who torture him, sodomize him with beer bottles, and smash his head with a 44-pound stone after he admits he was gay.15th May 2013: Moscow refuses to allow pride parade again because it is imperative to “work clearly and consistently on maintaining morality, oriented toward the teaching of patriotism in the growing generation, and not toward incomprehensible aspirations.”[3]
11th June 2013: Parliament passes federal law against “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations”, i.e. “relations not conducive to procreation,” which imposes fines of up to £20,000 for providing information about the LGBT community to minors, holding gay pride events, speaking in defence of gay rights, or equating gay and heterosexual relationships.
30th June 2013: Putin signs it into law
3rd July 2013: Putin signs adoption law, making it illegal for Russian children to be adopted by same-sex married couples and single people who live in countries where same-sex marriage is legal.
22nd July 2013: 4 Dutch tourist arrested for talking to teens at camp in Murmansk for a documentary on what it’s like to be LGBT in Russia.
28th July 2013: Chaiman of St Petersburg legislature confirms that the law will apply to foreign athletes and visitors to the Sochi Olympics in February 2014.
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