Employees of the gay club Pose in Orenburg, Russia, have been arrested and charged with spreading “LGBT propaganda” as part of the country’s first criminal “extremism” case against the LGBTQ community. https://twitter.com/MoscowTimes/status/1770453581230960741 From The Moscow Times:
Orenburg’s Central District Court ruled Wednesday to place the club’s art director and bar manager in pre-trial detention until May 18.
The two individuals face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of “organizing extremist activities.”
A statement on the court’s website describes them both as “persons with non-traditional sexual orientations” who “support the views and activities of the international LGBT public association banned in our country.”
The art director was accused of selecting drag artists for performances, and the bar manager of filming these performances.
Last November, Russia’s Supreme Court granted a request from the country’s Ministry of Justice to label the “international LGBT social movement” as “extremist.” https://twitter.com/sarahrainsford/status/1770548479334523212
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