Sexual minorities of Arkhangelsk have applied for a gay parade on the Day of the Airborne Forces

In Arkhangelsk, members of the LGBT community submitted an application to hold the 2 parade in August, the Day of the airborne troops.

An application has been submitted for a one-hour procession on the roadway of one of the embankments of Arkhangelsk. The event, as stated, is scheduled to attend up to one hundred people.

The city administration noted that the application will be considered. AT the beginning of July, the mayor of Arkhangelsk Viktor Pavlenko promised to allow the gay parade of August 2 “as a detente” - on Airborne Forces Day.

“LGBT has already hesitated,” Moskovsky Komsomolets quotes the mayor’s statement at the city planning meeting. “They have been asking us for permission for several years now. This year marks the 85th anniversary of the Airborne Forces, so on August 2 we will definitely allow them. I guarantee them. This is just as a release.”

The founder of the Russian LGBT human rights project GayRussia.Ru Nikolai Alekseev responded to Pavlenko’s statement. According to him, if the mayor really wants to be notified to hold the 2 gay parade in August, it will be done. “Only I think that Mr. Pavlenko is bluffing and he will not allow the gay parade even at the date he voiced, and there will always be reasons for refusal,” said the activist.

In March, representatives of the LGBT community demanded to initiate a criminal case against the mayor of Arkhangelsk due to the fact that he does not give permission to hold actions. The occasion was a broken March 25: the city administration initially agreed to a gay parade, but then annulled the decision after criticism in the local press.