Saturday May 28th (from Pinknews.co.uk) - Moscow police have arrested and detained a number of Russian and supporting foreign gay rights activists including the founder of the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia Louis-Georges Tin and openly gay US solider Dan Choi as homophobic violence broke out during the banned Moscow Pride march near to the Kremlin.
Activists who had rallied under the slogan “Russia is not Iran” were attacked by ultra-Orthodox campaigners who gathered to disturb the march, banned for the sixth year by the Moscow authorities.
Last year, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia’s ban of Moscow Pride in 2006, 2007 and 2008 breached the European Convention on Human Rights, of which Russia is a signatory due to its membership of the Council of Europe. The court forced Russia to pay damages to the organisers.
Photo : Yagg.com
The Russian city’s Legislative Assembly has adopted today a law that makes any reference to homosexuality a legal offense.
The Russian city’s Legislative Assembly has adopted today a law that makes any public reference to homosexuality a legal offense.
The law prohibits the so-called propaganda of "sodomy, lesbianism, bisexualism and transgenderism" to minors, equating it with pedophilia
Similar laws have already been adopted and implemented in other Russia’s cities and regions: 2006 in (...) 
For the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia 2011, the international photo project "Walk with Pride" developed by Charles ’Chad’ Meacham and Sarah Baxter goes global.
The exhibition was shown simultaneously in more than 20 locations around the world, including at the European Parliament.
Find out more about Walk With Pride
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The Russian Rainbow-flashmob initiative lead to initiatives in some 30 locations around the country, through formal and informal events.
In St Petersburg, some 150 people responded to the call from the organisation “Coming Out LGBT” to celebrate IDAHO and protest against the discrimination faced by LGBT people and their families. Event slogans included: “Different people – same values,” “Born to be ourselves,” “Parental love does not depend on the orientation of their children,” and (...) 
New York, NY—Human Rights First condemns the decision by the Moscow authorities—issued on the International Day Against Homophobia—to deny permission for a Moscow gay pride event. This is the sixth consecutive year that the Moscow City Hall has banned such an event. City officials cited numerous letters from public officials, religious organizations and private citizens urging the authorities to prohibit a demonstration. Similar bans were pronounced illegal by the European Court of Human (...) 
MOSCOW, May 17, 2011 (GayRussia) – With timing best described as “impeccable”, Moscow City Hall announced this morning that Moscow Gay Pride on May 28 is banned. Today is International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
The reasons given by the deputy mayor of Moscow, Ludmila Shvetsova, is because of “the impossibility to provide security” – and a high number of letters of protests received by the City Hall against this event.
“The reasons for banning the Moscow Pride this year are (...) 
