Police raid Moscow gay bars after a Supreme Court ruling labeled LGBTQ+ movement 'extremist'

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By The Associated Press
Updated 3:21 AM CST, December 2, 2023

Russian security forces raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow Friday night, less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization.

Police searched venues across the Russian capital, including a nightclub, a male sauna, and a bar that hosted LGBTQ+ parties, under the pretext of a drug raid, local media reported.

Eyewitnesses told journalists that clubgoers’ documents were checked and photographed by the security services. They also said that managers had been able to warn patrons before police arrived.

The raids follow a decision by Russia’s Supreme Court to label the country’s LGBTQ+ “movement” as an extremist organization.



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[liberalgunwilltravel]

1. THIS!

This is exactly what the fascist, christian Nationalists want for the United States. People better wake up and be literally ready to fight for their rights.

[peppertree]

2. Typical idiot move by a flailing idiot dictator, hoping to distract the rabble

About the only surprising thing about this, is that they didn't catch Lady G.

[Polybius]

3. Lady G?

Gaga?

[peppertree]

4. ···

(there were reports a few years ago, that a big-name Republican was regularly soliciting male prostitutes - on condition they refer to him solely as 'Lady G')

[Polybius]

5. Ahh my bad!

Wow, hadn't heard about that. I will search for a link to read up on it.

[peppertree]

6. Not at all. Republican malfeasance and hijinks come fast and furious.

I admire anyone who can remember it all anymore.

[electric_blue68]

7. You'd think they'd have Real criminals to go after ..

🙄

Stay Safe Russian LGBTQI+ peeps

[SWBTATTReg]

8. For those of us that faced those dark times before the Lgbtq community was finally recognized as a viable

community, our bars weren't invaded by the Police, and those that looked suspicious weren't marched off to some dark alley or such, or arrested just for the hell of it and/or charged w/ some made up crime, WE WILL PREVAIL again. Screw the homosexual bigot who's now leading the republicans in the House.

[ck4829]

9. Disgusting

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. This anti-LBGTQ attitude is a big reason why the far right and fundamentalists in the USA like Putin so much

and they'd love to see it happen in the USA too (well, everywhere, but Trump and the far right Supreme Court make it quite possible in the USA, or in Republican-controlled states).

[Igel]

11. It's what they did in the Donbas in '14 and '15.

That, and had mobs attack "wrong" churches, sometimes during services, to beat those in attendance. The "wrong" Orthodox church, Baptists, SDAs.

I guess Putin's working through his to-do list.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Sadly, this will start to be more common in countries like Russia (Hungary, even Poland).

It is disturbing to see such a backslide in various places, not that Russia was a beacon of acceptance.

[tornado34jh]

13. This comes as no surprise to me

Whether it is Hungary, likely Poland, Russia, or Uganda, this sort of thing is growing. But then again, right-wing groups, not just in the US but elsewhere have bought it to it, and much of the groups gave a lot of money to the governments to support them.

[cabotnn22]

14. This is sad

I feel for all the LGBT+ people affected by this..the sooner Putin is gone, the better.