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Madonna was fined a million dollars by Russia for speaking about gay rights. And she’s not paying

Pop icon Madonna has revealed that she owes $1 million for breaking anti-LGBTQ propaganda laws in Russia. She also said she has no plans to pay up. The fine stems

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Katie Couric asks Russian spokeswoman about gay torture in Chechnya. Her response is troubling.

Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova visited Yahoo News last week, talking with Katie Couric and shooting from the hip about the “ridiculous” U.S. airstrikes in Syria, the scourge of fake

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Celebrities Urge World To Speak Up Over Chechnya’s Persecution Of Gay Men

LGBT stars including Troye Sivan and Ellen DeGeneres have urged the world to speak up and take action over reports that gay men in Chechnya are being systematically persecuted by

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Russia considers banning ‘Beauty and the Beast’ movie over ‘gay moment’

The Russian government may ban the new Beauty and the Beast movie after the director, Bill Condon confirmed ‘gay moment’. Since 2013, Russia adopted ‘gay propaganda’ laws, which effectively gag

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Russian politicians debate if this tiger and goat are ‘promoting homosexuality’

Russians are actually looking into whether a friendship between a tiger and a goat “promotes homosexuality”. When Timur the goat was placed in the pen of Siberian tiger Cupid, zookeepers

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Russian man fined by court for not being homophobic

A Russian man has been hit with a steep fine, because he said something about gays that was “non-negative”. Sergei Alekseenko is the latest person to be charged under the

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Head of Russian Orthodox Church Says Gays Are Responsible for Rise of ISIS

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has joined the American religious right in blaming gays for the world’s problems, in an interview posted to the

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Ian McKellen Tops Russian Maxim List of ‘Forgiven Gays’

It’s been far too long since something offensively anti-gay came out of Russia. To remedy this, the Russian version of the men’s magazine Maxim released a list titled “Gays We

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Russian politician expresses his outrage over Apple CEO Tim Cook’s coming out

A Russian politician says Apple CEO Tim Cook ‘should be banned’ from entering the country after he came out as gay for the first time. Anti LGBT campaigner, Vitaly Milonov