The LGBT movement (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) is constantly trying to organize gay parades in Russian cities. But on June 6, 2012, the Moscow City Court upheld the decision to ban such events until 2112. The activists filed appeals, but the refusal to hold gay pride parades was recognized as legal.
Judging by the results of the actions of the LGBT movement that they have already managed to carry out, they do not bring anything good either to people of non-traditional sexual orientation or to residents of Russian cities. Almost all such parades ended in mass fights of participants with opponents of the movement.
The mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, considers it inappropriate to hold gay parades in Moscow. His opinion has not changed since 2010. The Moscow Mayor is also familiar with the attitude of the majority of the residents of the capital to such actions - sharply negative. He believes that it is necessary to reckon with the opinion of respected pensioners, parents and other Muscovites.
A public opinion poll showed that about 60-70% of Russians speak out against gay parades (according to various sources). So the authorities of the northern capital refused the march of sex minorities, fearing to provoke citizens into riots and fights. The heads of the administration of St. Petersburg analyzed the polls and decided that gay parades were more likely to promote lesbianism, homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender than to fight against civil rights violations.
Conflicts and unrest are not needed by the government of other cities of Russia, where the majority of citizens are also actively opposing the holding of actions of sex minorities. The LGBT movement requires gay pride parades to be allowed, as in many European countries. Russia is expected to have the same tolerance and tolerance.
But activists of sexual minorities forget that in those countries there was also a rather fierce struggle of homosexuals for their rights. They were also beaten, and some even died. The public opinion of Westerners is by no means ambiguous, some have a negative attitude towards gay pride parades and skirmishes occur both in Germany and in the Netherlands.
The Russian government believes that participants in the gay movement should fight for their rights in a less shocking and defiant way.
