On Feb. 11, a St. Petersburg court sidelined a lawsuit filed by Russia’s Justice of Ministry. The government wanted to shut down the Russian LGBT Network, one of the country’s most powerful queer rights organizations, for allegedly spreading “LGBT views.”
Since 1993, it is no longer illegal to be LGBTQ in Russia, but since adopting the “gay propaganda” law in 2013, it is illegal to talk about it around a minor.
That’s right, Vladimir Putin created a “don’t say gay” bill first.
