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Speaker Boehner Brings Hate-Peddlers to Capitol Hill

LGBTnewswire.euUSA - LGBTQ PoliticsNovember 18, 2013June 27, 2015

Buzzfeed reports that House Speaker John Boehner today secured meeting space for the top American supporters of Russia’s anti-LGBT laws.

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Opinion : Olympic Shame

Gay News Media & Press NetworkOpinion SportsOctober 5, 2013April 21, 2024

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.”

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IOC Abandons LGBT Russians, Olympic Athletes Ahead of Sochi Games

mscglSportsSeptember 26, 2013April 21, 2024

Today the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the governing body of the Olympic Games, announced it was “fully satisfied” that Russia’s heinous anti-gay propaganda law does not violate the anti-discrimination guarantees of the Olympic charter.

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With Sochi Games Only Six Months Away, President Obama Condemns Russia’s Heinous Anti-LGBT Law

LGBTnewswire.euSportsAugust 7, 2013April 14, 2024

In an interview Tuesday with Jay Leno on NBC’s The Tonight Show, President Obama condemned a new Russian law that criminalizes even the most modest gestures of support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people.

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IOC Shouldn’t Accept Verbal Promises from Putin

LGBTnewswire.euSportsJuly 29, 2013April 14, 2024

Friday the International Olympic Committee (IOC) released a statement to Russian news outlets responding to growing international fear about the safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individual and allies living in Russia or traveling to Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.

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