November 12, 2005

• "Indigo" is the first gay store in Moscow and it is now open!
  The store is located in the very heart of Moscow about 50 meters from the entrance to the Moscow City Duma. Already a few deputies of the Duma have come forth and criticized the opening of "Indigo" in the center of the capital.

October 29, 2005

• Academic Igor Kon Talks about Gay Pride in Moscow
  Representatives of more or less well-known Russian GLBT organizations and media have declined all responsibility for conducting Gay Pride with only mostly western figures showing any support for it.

October 16, 2005

• Metropolitan Kirill: The Russian Orthodox Church is for human rights without homosexuality
  The church hierarch announced that the notion of human rights in contemporary western society does not fit into the system of moral values of Christianity.

October 3, 2005

• For the first time ever in Russian history 2 gay men sign a marriage contract!
  Denis Gogolev and Mikhail Morozov became a well-known gay couple in 2003, after Mikhail expressed interest in participating in the competition "Miss Nizhny Novgorod."

September 26, 2005

• A St. Petersburg Homosexual Upheld his Right in Court to Work as a Train Conductor
  The man was, on first try, rejected because of a remark in his military record concerning a "mental illness," which was based on his homosexuality.

September 20, 2005

• Staff of social services in California get acquainted with the work of the hotline run by the GLBT center "Together."
  Konstantine Kosachev came to an agreement with Lauren Nackman and Michelle Winkle about conducting a training for the operators of the hotline at the community center "Together."

September 18, 2005

• Gay Pride in the capital of Russia: More questions than answers!
  Foreign gay press reports about the desire of some gay activists to conduct gay pride in Moscow in May of 2005.

September 08, 2005

• The Grand Jury of the Union of Journalists of Russia will examine the facts of the offensive publications about lesbians in the paper, "Komsomolskaya Pravda"
  In June of 2005, Gay.ru wrote about the scandalous cynicism from the side of the journalists of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda".

August 28, 2005

• A book containing 69 biographies of famous Russian gays has been published in Russia
  "69 short biographies of prominent Russians and contemporaries" - is one of the most unexpected books to come out as of late. For the first time, the life of gays in Russia is shown without gossip and anecdotes.

August 23, 2005

• Hotline for GLBT: The topic of "Problems with your partner" takes the first place
  The hotline has been working for more than a year in the community center "Together" for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transsexuals.

August 17, 2005

• Siberian gays speak out against gay pride in Tyumen
  Representatives of the association of gays in Tyumen (a city in Siberia) expressed their bewilderment concerning reports from Russian information agencies that a gay pride parade has been planned for September 05, 2005.

August 15, 2005

• The community center "Together" (Moscow) has resumed its work on self-help groups for gays and bisexuals
  Since the middle of June 2005, the "Self-help group for gays and bisexuals" continued its meetings in a new location.

January 18, 2005

• Firstattempt to legalize gay marriages in Russia: an MP and a gayactivist have attempted to oficially register their marriage in Moscow
  This civil action is the first serious grass-roots attempt to drawattention of Russian media, politicians and citizens to social status of gays and lesbians
  
  

November 5, 2004

• Homophobic sexologist claims to publish threats and letters from gays
  after the release of the extremely homophobic book “Gays and lesbians”, she continued to voice her homophobic views in public appearances in the media

October 3, 2004

• "Love and sex in Islamic culture”: gay marriage and its relationship with genies
  the first book on such topic in Russia is controversial: “even thinking about this topic is shameful, and, in general, there is no sex in the Islamic world”

September 15, 2004

• «Rodina» (fatherland) political party fears another gay scandal
  a homophobic campaign: electoral posters with a party member's image all over Kurgan were sprayed at night with ‘gay’ in bold letters

September 9, 2004

• Patriarch Aleksei II spoke out against gay marriage, calling homosexuality “the sin of a godless world”
  “...Protestant world is rapidly losing its Christian values, they are replacing evangelical values with secular ones […], they support abortion, divorce, gay marriage and they even appoint openly gay ministers”

August 12, 2004

• We don’t need gay blood
  few days ago a call for blood donations for the victims was published on a popular website. Gay men “by habit” were counted among high risk group donors, and were asked not to donate blood

May 22, 2004

• Seven years of gay.ru: Ed Mishin thinks that everything has just begun
  On 20 May in the club "Three monkeys" Gay.ru celebrated their seventh anniversary. The party was a success! The club had perhaps never seen a crowd such as the one that gathered on thursday night. Gay.ru received wishes from Barry Alibasov, Andrei Vul'f, Artemii Trotskii, from the groups "Revolvers" and "Gosti iz budushego", from Aleksandr Abrakhimov, Aleksandr Basil'ev, Andrei Bartenev, Evgeniia Debrinskaia, Aleksandr Moguchii, Vlad Monro, Oleg Kulik, Roman Viktiuk and many more.

May 20, 2004

• Andrei Vul'f: "In the Duma there is no sex... and no hate"
  Today the deputies of the Russian State Duma rejected the legislative project on the introduction of legal responsibility for the instigation of hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation. The author of the project, the three times deputy Andrei Vul'f, proposed a sentence of up to five years for hate crimes exclusively on the basis of sexual orientation. No deputy supported the project, and 42 voted against it. Form the seats of the Parliament there were whispers about the fact that perhaps those deputies who rank themselves among the "sexual majority" need to defend themselves from Russian gays and lesbians...

May 19, 2004

• The Slavist Kevin Moss: "Russian professors are afraid of the word gay"
  The well-known American Slavist Kevin Moss, who has travelled across the whole of Russia at the beginning of the year, gave an open interview to the magazine "Kvir". His visit was partly devoted to establishing relations with his colleagues who work in the field of queer theory. Kevin Moss revealed that Russian academics have very little interest for this topic, and that in most universities a hidden homophobia prevails.

April 22, 2004

• Bashkortostan MP proposes legitimating homosexual marriages
  Mr. Edward Murzin, Deputy of the Bashkortostan (Kurultai) State Council has proposed legitimating homosexual marriages. According to ROSBALT'S correspondent, the Deputy introduced to the State Kurultai Committee for Labour and Social Matters, Family, Maternity, Childhood and Health the draft project on amendments to the Family Code of the Bashkortostan Republic.

April 15, 2004

• PRAVDA.RU announcing most homo fearful mass media in the world
  PRAVDA.RU has announced the list of the most homo fearful mass media in the world. This list was recently published on the website of the Shame.Org Company that minors the gay perception throughout the world. The homophobia is rated by way of direct poll on the web by five categories, which are people, countries and territories, companies and mass media.

April 14, 2004

• Russian Criminal Code Amended
  On 8 December 2003 the age of consent in Russia was raised back to 16 years and severe sanctions for paedophilia were introduced - we publish today the updated provisons of the Russian Criminal Code.

April 7, 2004

• Mr. Alexi Mishin, coach of Eugene Plustchenko, figure-skater, accuses "Blue Lobby"
  In answering the Komsomolskaya Pravda Newspaper's readers' questions, Mr Allxi Mishin, coach of Eugene Plutchenko, figure skater, has stated that there is quite of a "Blue lobby" in figure skating.

April 3, 2004

• Patriarch Alexi's successor spoke against the "homosexuals' social integration"
  29th March metropolitan Smolenski and Kaliningradski, Mr. Kirill Gundiayev, wo is most likely to succeed Patriarch Alexi, made a number of homophobic statements at the European Cultural and Spiritual Versatility International Conference, which was held 29th March in Warsaw.

April 2, 2004

• RF State Council - Russian Gays' Love Still Not Amenable to RF Court Jurisdiction
  1st April 2004 the RF Council State committee for the civil, criminal and arbitration law made a recommendation to the RF State Council overriding the amendments to the RF Criminal Code, according to which homosexuality is a criminal act.

March 7, 2004

• Korzhakov’s Evil Genius: "I reinforced the chapter about "gay team" 
  State Duma deputy wrote a continuation of his bestseller “From Dawn till Dusk”, which brought to light mysteries of Yeltsin’s era

March 4, 2004

• Boris Moisseyev: the tale is yet to be told
  an interview with openly gay russian singer

March 2, 2004

• Fables from Baumanka 
  Pavel Bezrukih, the author of the article entitled “A Strange Love”, decided to go on with his "study" of homosexuality and issued another "work of art"

February 29, 2004

• Surprises close at hand: “Smena” newspaper cherished a stalwart homophobe 
  unique in terms of its homophobic fervors, it can only get one surprised by something of the kind existing in the 21st century

February 23, 2004

• Politics: Running for Presidency, Sergey Glazyev comes across a gay practical joke: according to to the Pravda.ru web-site, “the Presidential candidate, scheming against Gennady Zyuganov as Communist party leader, hasn’t formally denied his unconventional sexual orientation"

February 19, 2004

• Antimonopoly Ministry concerned with the Women’s Day advertising present 
  the ministry wants to estimate damage inflicted to the feeble minds of the citizens by the lesbian act in brewers TV advertising trailer

February 16, 2004

• Same sex marriages prevent Russian Jews from unification
  a journalist alleged contemporary Judaists for favoring same sex marriages, consecrating women and gays which “has damaged the image of Federation of Jewish communities of Russia” according to a Chief Rabbi of Russia

February 14, 2004

• Politics: State Duma rejected “sexual hatred” to be the reason for criminal prosecution cause “sexual orientation is citizen's especially private matter”

February 13, 2004

• Offended by Podolsk authorities, Moiseev left for Berlin to confess his love to Nikita from Golod TV show in attempt to understand in what way and to what extent a younger generation is different from him

February 12, 2004

• Bisexual guy stabs his girlfriend who called him gay
  the boy earned his living by commercial gay sex

February 11, 2004

• TV reporter Vladimir Solovyov, “All the homosexuals are sinners…”
  According to Mr. Solovyov, the pop-group TaTu promotes same sex relations and it should be legally banned

February 10, 2004

• Sergey Mazayev bewares of “ill people” from “gay mafia”
  he called homosexuality a “disease”, being especially concerned with the fact that “they (gays) try to get everywhere promoting their ideas”

February 9, 2004

• Cheburashka’s father annoyed by “hopping sodomites”
  his expressions attract main focus of scandalous court chronicles and gain reputation of a “villain, litigious fellow and the ringleader of the Zionist hotbed”

February 8, 2004

• Moscow City Duma speaker Vladimir Platonov spoke against “gay extremism”
  giving his interview on the possible reasons of the terrorist attack in Moscow subway, he suddenly mixed together terrorists and “gay extremists”

February 7, 2004

• Politics: Young communists welcome artist Moiseev with a picket
  pretending to express nation's opinion 'tired of platitude and lechery on TV'

February 6, 2004

• Ballerina Ananiashvili asks gays and lesbians to stay in a closet
  «If you are of a non-traditional orientation — it's your private business. You shouldn't disclose it or particularly say that such relations are better than love between a men and a woman!»

February 5, 2004

• Politics: Communist labor party not yet clarified itself on homosexuality
  «the party didn't find it necessary to form an official position»

February 4, 2004

• Politics: Shandybin blames "lesbians from Tatu" in his defeat
  to whom did my countrymen put trust? To perverts. After a theatre I've built for them, and an ultrasonic scanning machine for native women?"

February 3, 2004

• Dmitry Agarunov: «Homosexuality contradict family values of «Gameland»
  «No way. No matter how effective would the candidate have been»...«I don't have anything personal against it, but I think that such lifestyle is wrong. Here we have family values»

February 2, 2004

• Moscow City Duma asks public prosecutor to cope with "t.A.T.u"
  The commission on Health and Public health protection of the Moscow City Duma is preparing the inquiry to the Moscow's public prosecutor with an aspiration to determine if the the singers propagate drugs