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Gela Gogishvili and Haoyang Xu led a happy life as a gay couple in Russia, even as President Vladimir Putin’s government took an increasingly anti-LGBTQ+ stance. By Brent Koepp. By Sammi Caramela. In Volgograd, kilometers ( miles) south of Moscow, a court fined a man 1, rubles (about $11) for allegedly posting a rainbow flag on social media, local court officials reported Thursday, identifying the man only as Artyom P.

The crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in Putin’s Russia has persisted for more than a decade. Inthe festival will take a fallow year, a planned pause to allow the Worthy Farm site time to rest and recover. Love you internets — Laura LauraHuu July 9, By Stephen Andrew Galiher.

Established by Michael Eavis inGlastonbury has grown into the UK's largest music festival, drawing over preppy gay, fans to enjoy performances across more than stages.

By Caleb Catlin. The flag's release follows an effort to outlaw the use of the rainbow LGBT flag online and materially across the country, where dissemination of "gay propaganda" was made illegal Russian President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party has courted controversy by unveiling a flag celebrating heterosexual "real families" in response to the US decision to legalise gay marriage.

The online ripostes from the LGBT community came quickly and zestfully, with some social media users immediately doctoring the flag to reflect same-sex couples in place of the husband and wife, or appropriating the hashtag to their own modern families or their favorite family units on television.

But the move in itself represents the latest, and possibly by far the most drastic, step in the decade-long crackdown on gay rights in Russia unleashed under President Vladimir Putin, who has put. Follow Us On Discover.

Avon and Somerset Police have announced that they have launched a criminal investigation into the performances of Bob Vylan and also of the Irish-language rap band Kneecap who are known for making pro-Palestinian and political comments during their live performances and have attracted controversy in the past.

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