Representatives in the 450-seat lower house of parliament, or State Duma, approved in the first of three required readings a ban on “homosexual propaganda” among minors.
Madonna called the St Petersburg law a “ridiculous atrocity” before her concert there last August.
“I will come to St Petersburg to speak up for the gay community and to give strength and inspiration to anyone who is or feels oppressed,” the singer had said last March 20 by email.
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