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Church activists protest Moscow gay film
fest
Saturday April 28, 2012 09:14:26 AM,
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Moscow:
Activists from two fundamentalist Russian Orthodox organisations
Friday protested before the opening ceremony of an international
gay and lesbian film festival in Moscow.
Members of the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers and the Union of
Orthodox Brotherhoods gathered at a Moscow movie theatre Thursday
evening and kicked off their protest reciting the prayer "Lord,
Save Thy People!", a report said Friday.
In turn, gay rights activists attending the Side-by-Side film
festival tried to hand out gay community badges to the protesters,
but were rejected.
The protesters claimed festival attendees paid by tycoon and
Kremlin rival Boris Berezovsky and said gays were trying to impose
an "authoritarian society".
"We were chanting 'Perverts out of Russia!' and they: 'This
fascism will not stand'," protest coordinator Yury Ageshchev said
Friday.
Police were deployed at the event but did not intervene in the
standoff.
The protesters said they would file a complaint with Moscow Mayor
Sergei Sobyanin, who "allowed all this sodomy".
"We, Orthodox people, will not remain silent," the organiser said.
The protest came as a shock to the foreign guests attending the
festival, according to liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy.
Swedish director Ella Lemhagen said the event showed the difficult
situation faced by the gay community in Russia.
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