Tag: Moscow
World Congress of Families Selects Salt Lake City for Summit
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, today responded to the World Congress of Families’ announcement that it will host its next annual summit in Salt Lake City, UT in the fall of 2015.
U.S : Anti-LGBT Conference Continues Close Ties To Putin Despite Mounting International Tensions
The World Congress of Families is moving full speed ahead with plans to hold an international anti-LGBT conference at the Kremlin in Moscow this fall, despite the growing international crisis in Ukraine and the withdrawal of key conference partner Concerned Women for America over concerns that holding the conference would give the appearance of “giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin.”
After Sochi, gay sports event faces high hurdles in Russia
Days after the closing of the Sochi Winter Olympics, a gay sports organisation’s plan to hold Russia’s first open Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender athletic competition was under threat from bureaucratic barriers it said stemmed from discrimination.
Russia: IOC Acts on Sochi Abuses
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has taken important steps to persuade the Russian government to investigate persistent claims of non-payment of wages to workers who helped build Olympic venues and infrastructure.
Moscow invented rumours of Vladimir Putin affair with Olympic gymnast because he ‘is gay’
A new biography of Vladimir Putin paints a picture of the Russian president as a ‘traumatised’ man and speculates that he might be homosexual.
U.N. urges Olympic social inclusion amid Russian gay rights storm
The U.N. General Assembly called on Wednesday for an international truce during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia and urged Moscow “to promote social inclusion without discrimination” amid outrage over the country’s ban on gay “propaganda” among minors.