Tag: anti-gay law
Norway : Lesbian kiss in Olympic inspired commercial
Norwegian sports chain creates a Olympic inspired commercial that kicks the Russian anti-gay law.
Senegal arrests 5 ‘lesbians’
Senegalese police detained five women accused of violating the country’s anti-gay law, highlighting increased pressure on suspected lesbians in the deeply conservative West African nation, an activist group said on Tuesday.
Opinion : Olympic Shame
So the IOC is “fully satisfied” that Russia’s anti-gay law doesn’t violate the Olympic Charter. Principle 6 of the Charter says: “Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement.”