Summary

Russian security forces raided three Moscow nightclubs, detaining 12 people on charges of “petty hooliganism” amid anti-LGBTQ enforcement.

The raids occurred a year after Russia’s Supreme Court labeled LGBTQ activism “extremist,” intensifying crackdowns on LGBTQ rights under Putin’s regime.

Videos showed clubgoers forced to the ground, with exits blocked and interrogations conducted. Sporadic raids on LGBTQ spaces have been reported since the 2022 ruling.

Russia’s LGBTQ restrictions, including its expanded “gay propaganda law,” have drawn criticism as part of a broader suppression of LGBTQ communities.

  • @[email protected]
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    342 months ago

    A dozen Moscow clubgoers found guilty after persecuted by anti-LGBTQ ‘propaganda’ raids

    You know it’s bad when imperial news is framing alt-imperial fascism as justice.

  • @[email protected]
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    252 months ago

    Gay clubs aren’t illegal in Russia, but under the propaganda laws, you may be committing a crime if you publicly appear to be having a good time whilst gay.

    • @[email protected]
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      92 months ago

      Wasn’t even public, most of those events were private, behind close doors, with entrance by invites only. That’s the biggest hipocrisy of propagandists and lawmakers, they kept saying “we dont care if you’re gay or lesbian as long as you dont flaunt it, we dont opress minorities, were just protecting the kids”, and then they break into closed clubs and apartments anyway, just to make a show out of it.

  • Guy Dudeman
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    172 months ago

    Tell me again how Putin is good and USA bad?

    • @[email protected]
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      -182 months ago

      News about Russia.

      how does this affect the US?

      Sorry, we forgot to include everything about Israel and Palestine in every thread.

      Or how about mass shootings? Are those edgy enough for you?

              • Guy Dudeman
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                12 months ago

                I don’t know why anyone would upvote any of my comments. But I know why they’re downvoting yours.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Sure thing bitch. Imagine thinking a dozen Upvotes means how right someone is.

                  Pathetic

                  lol imagine having downvotes, what a loss. I could never recover. /s

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            Doing a thing like that doesn’t greentext like 4chan, it creates a subtext to like block quote with and stuff

  • @brlemworld
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    42 months ago

    You can’t call it extremism and give petty hooliganism charges. That’s like calling someone who threw a gun wrapper on the ground a terrorist.