Russia's Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the "LGBT movement" should be designated as extremist, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions.

MOSCOW, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Russia’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that LGBT activists should be designated as extremists, in a move that representatives of gay and transgender people fear will lead to arrests and prosecutions.

A Reuters reporter in court heard it announce that it had approved a request from the justice ministry to recognise what it called “the international LGBT social movement” as extremist and to ban its activities.

  • Stamau123@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    201·
    1 year ago

    ‘Leftists’ like N Korea, China, and Russia supports make me ashamed to be a leftist. This is what happens when all your leaders die 40 years ago, the movement gets silly.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 year ago

      Don’t be ashamed to be a lefty. Shame THEM for dare calling themselves leftists while espousing polite words for autocrats and dictators. They are pathetic and a detriment to progress and they need to know it.

      • socsaEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        And get banned for questioning orthodox bullshit

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Idk the leaderless portions can be silly but we feed people to feed people, we fix up bikes to fix up bikes, we send prisoners books and propaganda to help prisoners. We may not be perfect, and our terminally online portions are terminally online, but we’re out there helping the proletariat.

      • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        That’s like a republican saying “we donated to a charity” while pushing for a bill that would restrict black peoples right to vote.

        You can’t claim to be helping us while in the same breath actively working for our long term oppression.