Moscow gays outfox police

times10.ca

Despite the banning of their protest for the third year in row and attempted pre-emptive arrests by the authorities, Moscow Lesbians and Gays successfully held Pride with widespread coverage by alternative, prominent international and some mainstream Russian media.

The authorities, neo-fascists and religious zealots took the bait that Pride was going to take place as a picket in front of notoriously anti-gay Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov’s City Hall.

While riot police were busy blockading City Hall and arresting some of the fascists and religious fanatics who showed up to physically stop Pride, Alexeyev had secretly spirited the media to a nearby monument to the great 19th Century Russian gay composer Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, where Pride was successfully held with widespread coverage.

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