California officials banned from visiting a third of America's states

Texas, Florida, Ohio and other 15 states - California's travel ban extends to a third of America, the Sacramento Bee reports. California Democrats wanted to get their message across when they passed legislation five years ago banning taxpayer-funded travel...

The family that registered the first gay marriage in Russia told how they fled the country

Evgeny Voitsekhovsky and Pavel Stotsko were forced to flee Russia in January 2018, fearing for their lives and freedom. The pressure began after the men announced that their marriage in Denmark had been unexpectedly confirmed at the Multifunctional Service Center (MFC) ...

Gay Chechen apologized to Kadyrov and accused Western media of pressure

Movsar Eskerkhanov, who became the first native of Chechnya to publicly admit his homosexuality, asked for forgiveness from the leadership of the republic in a Chechen television story and stated that his confession was made under pressure from Western journalists in order to “disgrace him before the Chechen people and ruler.” IN…

Russians hide behind their LGBT status to emigrate - Russian officials

Tatiana Moskalkova, Ombudsman for Human Rights in Russia, told the Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorbjørn Jagland that there was a statement that some people with a gay orientation are using their status to facilitate immigration to the West. She told TASS about this in ...

Mass arrests of gays began in Baku at the request of citizens

“I haven’t lived a normal life here yet, I have nothing except a sick mother,” says one of the victims of the raid, a man named Rufat. He refused to give his real name to the press - for obvious reasons. From the BBC he...

Kadyrov asked to take gays from Chechnya in order to “clear the blood”

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in an interview with the American television channel HBO, called for “taking away” gays from the republic, if they are there, in order to “cleanse the blood.” Answering a question from journalist David Scott about the persecution of gays, Kadyrov said: “This is nonsense. We don't have such people. No…

Russian TV channel offered to pay gay one-way ticket to California

The Russian TV channel Tsargrad published a video message on Facebook to its subscribers, in which it volunteered to pay for a one-way ticket to all Russian gays who want to go to the United States. “Recently in California, by the way, the most liberal American state, they proposed making it easier for Russian perverts to obtain green cards. Like...

Uber offers free trips for gays

Uber offers free rides to the LGBT community, hypable.com writes. Thus, the taxi management decided to support the American LGBT community after the tragic events in Orlando. For example, using the promotion, you can take a taxi to a gay bar, gay center or museum. In total, the company provides one person with two free ...

What does the letter “and” mean for LGBTI?

The abbreviation LGBT in connection with the tragedy at the Orlando gay club has been actively used in the press over the past few days, but few people know that there is also an abbreviation with the letter “i” at the end - LGBTI. It stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex....

11 states challenged Obama's decree on transgender toilets in schools

A decree by US President Barack Obama, which gives transgender American schoolchildren the right to choose the men's or women's toilet, has led to the filing of lawsuits in 11 states. The initiators of the lawsuits are the authorities of the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia, ...

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