Gay activists to turn Moscow into Brokeback Mountain

A group of gay activists led by the notorious lawyer Nikolai Alexeev has recently stepped up its activities aimed at staging the first gay pride parade in Moscow in May 2006. The event is designed to conclude a conference of gays and lesbians.

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“All liberal and human rights organizations of Europe along with the social democratic mayors of Paris and Berlin have expressed support to our initiative. The Central Committee of the French Communist Party even promised to send a delegation of French gay communists to the Moscow event,” said Nikolai Alexeev, in an interview to Pravda.ru.

“By the way, Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde’s grandson, has called on Russian politicians to show support to the Moscow gay parade. Lev Ponomarev, a human rights activist, has pledged his support to the event. We hope that other liberals and human rights activists ranging from Yuri Samodurov to Nikita Belykh to Grigory Yavlinsky will support it and help turn the coming May into a month of culture and struggle for equality of gays and lesbians,” added Alexeev.

With the exception of Mr. Ponomarev, no liberal politicians have spoken out on the controversy over the parade plan. Meanwhile, representatives of virtually all traditional religions in Russia have made quite it clear that a marching of gays and lesbians was not acceptable because it would offend the morals of the majority of Russians and would promote sodomy, which is strongly condemned by all world religions.

Talgat Tadjuddin, supreme mufti of the Central Spiritual Directorate of the Muslims of Russia, was the first religious leader to speak on the issue. He said that a gay parade in Moscow would spark off a wave of protests among the Muslims. “The protests will be much stronger than those being launched against the scandalous Danish cartoons abroad,” the mufti was quoted as saying by Interfax. The mufti also warned of possible consequences of the planned event. “By no means the authorities should allow the parade. Should the participants take to the streets, they should be given a good beating. All normal people – the Muslims and Christians alike – will beat them up,” said Tadjuddin.

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