In London, a rally was held for the boycott of the Olympics in Sochi

In London, the residence of the British Prime Minister David Cameron went on a rally for the boycott of the Sochi Olympiad because of the homophobic law adopted in Russia. It is reported by Gayrussia. The action held on Saturday was attended by up to 2 thousand people.

The audience demanded that Cameron and Foreign Minister William Heig put pressure on the Russian authorities in order to achieve the abolition of a homophobic law.

Among the participants in the rally was the most famous British LGBT activist Peter Thatchell. He entered the action with the poster "Putin - King of Homophobia." Also, an actor and writer Stephen Fry came to the demonstration. The demonstrators held the posters "I love Russia. I hate homophobia, as well as portraits of Vladimir Putin with makeup or with antennae, like that of Adolf Hitler.

Earlier on the day of the action, Cameron rejected the idea of ​​Fry to boycott the Olympics in Sochi or to achieve its transfer to the city not in Russia. On August 7 made such an initiative on August 7. “Thank you for your remark, @stephenfry, I share your deep concern in connection with a violation of gay rights in Russia, but it is better to fight the prejudices, participating in the Olympics than to boycott it,” the politician wrote on Twitter.

Another rally against homophobic laws took place on Saturday with the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv. About 200 people took part in the action. One of the posters drawn a parallel between the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and Sochi Games. The rally went to the music of Peter Tchaikovsky.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, German Foreign Minister Gido Westerwell, open gay, who had previously criticized the Russian homophobic law, opposed the boycott of games in Sochi. "I think the discussion about the boycott of the Olympiad is wrong. This will be more harmful to the case of minority protection than will help," the minister said.

Earlier, the German Minister of Justice Sabina Loithawisser-Shnarrenberger did not exclude the boycott of the Sochi Games due to the adoption of a homophobic law in Russia. She noted that "hanging labels on homosexuals" contradicts the European Convention on Human Rights. Russia must comply with international legal obligations, the minister emphasized.

A deputy of the Bundestag from the ruling Christian Democratic Union UNS SPPA called the grotesque situation when "the world should come to a country in which people with the help of the law are set on gays and lesbians." The Communist Party of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Johannes Kars, noted that it would be logical to transfer the 2014 Olympics from Sochi to Vancouver, as well as prevent Russian athletes for competitions.

Earlier on Sunday, it became known that in the center of St. Petersburg, posters with a quote from the SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler were stuck: "In Germany, 7-8 percent of men are homosexuals. If such a situation is preserved, our nation threatens self -play. Those who practice homosexuality deprives Germany for children that they should supply it." Also, a portrait of Himmler and a postscript were placed on the posters: "Doesn't remind you anything?"