On June 11, the State Duma in the second and third reading adopted amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses prohibiting the "promotion of non -traditional sexual relations among minors." Supporters of the bill and representatives of the LGBT moves gathered at the parliament building, between which there was a conflict. The participants of the brawl were detained. 
“Given that this is the final reading of the law, and there were a lot of opponents and opponents. Our authorities for the first time in my life have overestimated the number of LGBT activists: in my protocol it was written that I shouted slogans in a group of 200 people, although there were no more than 40 actual opponents near the Duma,” one of the participants in the protest of Sergei said, in my opinion Gubanov, insurer and LGBT activist.
The riots began not because of the arrival of the riot police: at first, LGBT activists and homophobes clashed, the latter began to throw eggs, water the opponents with liquid and beat with nettles. “There were a lot of minors, although they did not make up the majority, just children who revel in their own impunity shouted“ Russia without fagots ”,“ Russian riot police, Davi Pidoras ”and felt absolutely impunity,” recalls Gubanov.
A few minutes later the police joined. According to eyewitnesses, only LGBT activists or those who were considered involved were detained, about 30 people turned out in total. Police officers were indifferent, taken by the detainees not in a car carrier, but by bus - first to the Tver ATS, and then to the Basmanny. “There was a standard option in the department: we didn’t need anyone for three hours, and then the employees issued a report on the detention of slogans for one -sex marriage, against homophobia and against the legitimate parliament,” said Gubanov, who left the department for about 17 hours. Together with LGBT activists, aggressively tuned citizens were released from the ATS. So, a man who broke in January, when attacking activists, his nose Gubanova, after leaving the department, hit Maria Baronova in his stomach, demanding to detain him. Now she is in the hospital. Sklifosovsky under the supervision of doctors.
“We acted correctly, the public manifestation of feelings is not something illegal,” Sergey Gubanov is sure. “Despite the fact that the law has been adopted, we were able to mobilize a large number of people, and our voice will hear at least someone. Since I know from experience, how hard it can be, I do this so that young people do not face the unsolvable problems with which they are dealing with now.”




Photos: Yuri Ivashchenko